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Take the Darn Break — Why Getting Away Changes Everything · The Sharon Francisco Show

• 0:02
  SPEAKER_00: Hello and welcome to the Sharon Francisco show.
• 0:05
  SPEAKER_00: Guess what?
• 0:06
  SPEAKER_00: I'm getting bored of my podcast because I feel like I've fallen into a trap of feeling like I have to get content out and it's no longer going to happen.
• 0:17
  SPEAKER_00: So strap yourselves in, guys.
• 0:19
  SPEAKER_00: You're in for a ride with my podcast.
• 0:22
  SPEAKER_00: Things are about to be shaken up a little bit.
• 0:24
  SPEAKER_00: I'm still going to be talking about a lot of stuff that relates to business.
• 0:28
  SPEAKER_00: So helping business owners grow their businesses and what are the things that are going to help you grow your business.
• 0:34
  SPEAKER_00: And it's not going to be the things that perhaps are the obvious practical things.
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_00: Today, what I'm going to be talking about is take the darn break.
• 0:46
  SPEAKER_00: Get away from your office, get away from where you live, get away from your city, from your town, where everything is familiar.
• 0:54
  SPEAKER_00: Now, why do we do this?
• 0:55
  SPEAKER_00: I've got some stats that I've researched for this later on.
• 0:58
  SPEAKER_00: I'm going to share with you.
• 1:00
  SPEAKER_00: But my question is, why do we struggle with taking breaks?
• 1:04
  SPEAKER_00: Like, why do we struggle to get away from our place of work, from where we're familiar and where we feel like, you know, the day today, it's easy to stay where we are.
• 1:16
  SPEAKER_00: We tell our friends, we tell our family, our kids to take care of themselves.
• 1:21
  SPEAKER_00: We need to take care of ourselves first.
• 1:24
  SPEAKER_00: You know, the whole story about when you're on the plane, take the oxygen mask for you first before you give it to anyone else.
• 1:31
  SPEAKER_00: And the reason for that is you're absolutely screwed if you're dead.
• 1:37
  SPEAKER_00: So that's kind of a a little bit of an analogy for this.
• 1:41
  SPEAKER_00: If you're not firing on all cylinders and feeling fantastic about life, how can you really, with your hand on your heart, really help the people around you?
• 1:52
  SPEAKER_00: Your clients, your business associates, your children, your family, your partner.
• 1:57
  SPEAKER_00: How can you really hand on heart say, you know what?
• 2:00
  SPEAKER_00: I'm I'm here, I'm I'm doing the best job I can, and I'm gonna really help you out as much as what I'm doing in my life.
• 2:07
  SPEAKER_00: You just can't.
• 2:08
  SPEAKER_00: You just can't, you need to take the break.
• 2:10
  SPEAKER_00: But it feels like a bit of an indulgence, doesn't it?
• 2:13
  SPEAKER_00: So let me tell you a little bit about how I plan my year.
• 2:19
  SPEAKER_00: And I'll tell you about one of the recent breaks that I've had.
• 2:22
  SPEAKER_00: So to give you a bit of context and hopefully inspire you to take the darn break.
• 2:27
  SPEAKER_00: So what I do uh usually at the end of the year, around October, November, I start thinking about the following year.
• 2:33
  SPEAKER_00: And what I do is preload the year with the breaks first.
• 2:37
  SPEAKER_00: So my long weekends and my holidays, I preload, depending on what's going on in my life.
• 2:44
  SPEAKER_00: I say that because it doesn't always work out that way, does it?
• 2:47
  SPEAKER_00: When you set up a little routine and then something sideswipes you and it doesn't work out that way.
• 2:51
  SPEAKER_00: So what sideswiped us was that we decided that we wanted to move to Tambourine Mountain and we did that.
• 2:57
  SPEAKER_00: It was fantastic.
• 2:58
  SPEAKER_00: We sold our house here, we moved to Tambourine Mountain a couple of years ago, and it didn't work out.
• 3:04
  SPEAKER_00: It was a bit of a nightmare.
• 3:06
  SPEAKER_00: And I'll talk about that another time.
• 3:08
  SPEAKER_00: So what we decided to do was do that house up and sell it.
• 3:12
  SPEAKER_00: To say I didn't take a break, enough breaks last year is a bit of an understatement.
• 3:17
  SPEAKER_00: So I didn't take my little breaks away because we were getting ready to sell the house.
• 3:20
  SPEAKER_00: So we moved back to uh our investment property.
• 3:23
  SPEAKER_00: We're now building a home.
• 3:25
  SPEAKER_00: So I thought, you know what?
• 3:26
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna click back into my little long weekends away.
• 3:28
  SPEAKER_00: I never take long weekends away when everyone else does because why?
• 3:34
  SPEAKER_00: You don't have to.
• 3:35
  SPEAKER_00: You don't have to take long weekends when if you're locked into that, of course, you've got to take long weekends when everyone else does.
• 3:40
  SPEAKER_00: But I'm very lucky, my my husband has a lot of holidays, so we kind of get to choose when we take our weekends away.
• 3:48
  SPEAKER_00: So the first thing is obviously to start preloading the year.
• 3:51
  SPEAKER_00: So we are obviously in August, uh July, August now.
• 3:56
  SPEAKER_00: So start thinking about what 2027 will look like for you with your long weekends.
• 4:01
  SPEAKER_00: If you have to lock into regular long weekends when everyone else does, do that.
• 4:05
  SPEAKER_00: If not, if you can choose a few.
• 4:07
  SPEAKER_00: So I try to make it once a quarter if I can, with a couple of big ones in there, or one big one if you can, depending on how your year is looking.
• 4:16
  SPEAKER_00: So our recent one was uh to Umundi for the Umundi Markets.
• 4:22
  SPEAKER_00: Now that's up at the Sunshine Coast.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's absolutely beautiful.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Umundi markets are one of the most beautiful markets in the world.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's got a little bit commercialized now, but hey, it's still wonderful and it's still fun to get away.
• 4:33
  SPEAKER_00: And it's any excuse to get away.
• 4:35
  SPEAKER_00: What we did was I generally book something on Airbnb.
• 4:39
  SPEAKER_00: We kind of like the country sort of area, something a bit more rustic, but still nice.
• 4:43
  SPEAKER_00: I like all the niceties and things with aircon and heaters and nice comfy beds and all that kind of stuff.
• 4:49
  SPEAKER_00: But of course, we need a place that we can take our beautiful little dog, Ular, as our little miniature schnauzer.
• 4:55
  SPEAKER_00: So the last time we're up there, we booked a beautiful place.
• 4:59
  SPEAKER_00: It was out on this massive big field, and it was like an it was literally an old wool shed.
• 5:05
  SPEAKER_00: And they'd converted it and they'd put it down like in the back paddock and they'd done it all up and made it look absolutely beautiful.
• 5:13
  SPEAKER_00: So we loved it.
• 5:15
  SPEAKER_00: It was like a big open wool shed.
• 5:16
  SPEAKER_00: Well, it wasn't an actual wool shed, they'd turned it into a room, a big room, but it was you could there was no insulation.
• 5:24
  SPEAKER_00: And in the mornings when the sun came up, you could hear the like of the tin, you could hear that cracking as the tin was warming up.
• 5:30
  SPEAKER_00: It was I I thought it was absolutely lovely.
• 5:33
  SPEAKER_00: It was about 150, 180 bucks a night.
• 5:35
  SPEAKER_00: It was absolutely lovely.
• 5:37
  SPEAKER_00: It had a fire pit outside where we could light the fire, like a literal fire pit.
• 5:42
  SPEAKER_00: It wasn't like a cast iron thing, it was in the ground where they had wood and you could just light the fire.
• 5:48
  SPEAKER_00: And we had a few wines around the fire.
• 5:50
  SPEAKER_00: This was a couple of years ago.
• 5:52
  SPEAKER_00: It was just beautiful.
• 5:52
  SPEAKER_00: So I thought, you know what?
• 5:53
  SPEAKER_00: I'll do that again.
• 5:54
  SPEAKER_00: Found a place, it was like a little cabin, it was beautiful.
• 5:59
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, this one was more expensive, though.
• 6:01
  SPEAKER_00: So I thought, oh, this would be nice, a bit more expensive, a bit more cozy.
• 6:05
  SPEAKER_00: It's about$400 and something dollars a night.
• 6:07
  SPEAKER_00: So it wasn't cheap, right?
• 6:09
  SPEAKER_00: So I thought, yeah, this will be fun.
• 6:12
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, it was dog friendly.
• 6:14
  SPEAKER_00: The other thing that I don't do is when I go away, I don't like to take things away.
• 6:20
  SPEAKER_00: So if we've got wine or cheese in the fridge, I don't like to take any of the stuff we've got because when I go away, I kind of like to like try new things.
• 6:29
  SPEAKER_00: I like to buy different wine, I like to try different cheeses, I like to eat out, I like to order different different things.
• 6:36
  SPEAKER_00: So it feels like a breakaway.
• 6:39
  SPEAKER_00: So you're not seeing or tasting or doing all the familiar things.
• 6:44
  SPEAKER_00: And of course, you know, going to the Yamundi markets is absolutely beautiful.
• 6:48
  SPEAKER_00: It's they've got a fantastic array of different things.
• 6:51
  SPEAKER_00: I'm always looking for natural things.
• 6:53
  SPEAKER_00: I was looking for a natural body cream to go on my body, which was absolutely um, I found an absolutely beautiful one made from Oliveira.
• 7:02
  SPEAKER_00: $110 million.
• 7:04
  SPEAKER_00: It was so expensive, but I've been using it since I came back and it's been lovely.
• 7:07
  SPEAKER_00: So you get to find all these little cool things.
• 7:10
  SPEAKER_00: There's an African shop there that we absolutely love.
• 7:14
  SPEAKER_00: We bought some beautiful um prints and things like a nice little ornament thing that you can put on your wall and some gorgeous little uh they make these things called kissy rocks, they're little beautiful love hearts made in Africa that uh and they've got beautiful prints and things on them.
• 7:32
  SPEAKER_00: So all these fun things, right?
• 7:34
  SPEAKER_00: So it was awesome.
• 7:35
  SPEAKER_00: I took my I've started lately a new passion, which I'm finding really interesting because the the thing that I've started is to draw, and I have never been a good drawer ever.
• 7:48
  SPEAKER_00: Like I'm terrible at drawing, like terrible.
• 7:51
  SPEAKER_00: And I just started a few months ago.
• 7:53
  SPEAKER_00: Um, Pierre had gone to France for six weeks to visit his family, and I just started drawing and I love it, and I'm not too bad at it, just quietly.
• 8:05
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not great, but I'm not too bad.
• 8:07
  SPEAKER_00: So I've been working on that.
• 8:09
  SPEAKER_00: So I took my sketchbooks away, of course, you know, my personality.
• 8:13
  SPEAKER_00: I uh I got some really cheap pencils and drawing paper to begin with from a two-dollar shop, and um I I did some drawings.
• 8:22
  SPEAKER_00: I thought, oh gosh, I could actually draw.
• 8:24
  SPEAKER_00: So I, in my usual fashion, I went and bought about$350 worth of drawing stuff, different acrylic paints and pencils and colored pencils and different pads and things like the sketchbooks and things like that.
• 8:37
  SPEAKER_00: So I took those up there.
• 8:40
  SPEAKER_00: I was really creating a beautiful like experience to go away in and it was wonderful.
• 8:46
  SPEAKER_00: And we loved it.
• 8:48
  SPEAKER_00: We absolutely loved it.
• 8:49
  SPEAKER_00: Now I'm gonna tell you the real story.
• 8:53
  SPEAKER_00: Look, don't get me wrong, it was amazing, but I'm gonna tell you, I don't know about you, but sometimes I plan these sort of things.
• 9:01
  SPEAKER_00: And while it was great and it was really good, I came back really refreshed and felt great.
• 9:07
  SPEAKER_00: But I want to tell you the real story because I think, again, as I said at the beginning, I I want this podcast now.
• 9:14
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna start talking about the things that are happening that, yeah, there's gonna be business ideas and things like that, but I also want to share with you the stuff that really happens.
• 9:24
  SPEAKER_00: And hopefully, this is where we'll start to get down to tin tacks about the things that are really going on in your business that maybe help you push through that.
• 9:32
  SPEAKER_00: The real story was the lady that we booked in with was lovely, really lovely.
• 9:39
  SPEAKER_00: She sent a big text when we got there.
• 9:42
  SPEAKER_00: I hope you're happy, I hope everything's great.
• 9:44
  SPEAKER_00: You know, you got a little filtered water for Euler out the front, and everything was laid out beautiful for our little puppy dog.
• 9:51
  SPEAKER_00: Amazing.
• 9:52
  SPEAKER_00: And the the message she sent was just quite long text message through the Airbnb app.
• 9:59
  SPEAKER_00: And then the next morning she sent another text, and it was like a long text, a long text.
• 10:06
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to you, Monday.
• 10:07
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, the weather's beautiful today.
• 10:09
  SPEAKER_00: I hope you're enjoying.
• 10:10
  SPEAKER_00: Now, what's close?
• 10:11
  SPEAKER_00: Like the restaurants and everything.
• 10:12
  SPEAKER_00: So she gave all this.
• 10:13
  SPEAKER_00: I thought, oh, that's very nice.
• 10:14
  SPEAKER_00: She's really attentive and telling us about the restaurants and where to go and how far away everything is.
• 10:19
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, great.
• 10:20
  SPEAKER_00: And then there was another one, like later on, I don't know how long after it was, it was another text.
• 10:26
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, oh, another text.
• 10:27
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, and it was long, like really long.
• 10:30
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, okay, great.
• 10:32
  SPEAKER_00: And like little tips and tricks on what you can do, and I hope you're enjoying the fire and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, all of that sort of stuff.
• 10:39
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, great.
• 10:40
  SPEAKER_00: Then the next morning, another anyway, long story short, she sent a couple of texts a day that were as long as your arm and it was too much.
• 10:47
  SPEAKER_00: Like I was, I was reading them out to Pierre going, this is too much.
• 10:52
  SPEAKER_00: This is like, I am forever, you know what it's like when you're in business.
• 10:55
  SPEAKER_00: People can get you on WhatsApp, they get you on Messenger, they get you on text, they get you on email, they go like it's everywhere.
• 11:01
  SPEAKER_00: Like you're always being like you when you go away, the last thing you want is somebody that you booked the place with to send you 110 million emails with as long as you're arm.
• 11:14
  SPEAKER_00: It was just way too much.
• 11:17
  SPEAKER_00: The split system, aircon slash heater, didn't work.
• 11:22
  SPEAKER_00: It was freezing.
• 11:23
  SPEAKER_00: And yes, there was a beautiful fire, log fire.
• 11:26
  SPEAKER_00: And she said, you know, if you want the log fire, you can do that.
• 11:28
  SPEAKER_00: And I said, Yeah, we'll we'll have the log fire.
• 11:30
  SPEAKER_00: And then she came back and she said, Well, it'll be uh for the wood, it's going to be$35 for a small lot of wood, and then you've got your fire lighters and you've got your kindling and things like that.
• 11:40
  SPEAKER_00: So the package was$35.
• 11:42
  SPEAKER_00: And we said, No, no, we'll just bring the wood ourselves, no problem.
• 11:44
  SPEAKER_00: So we took the wood ourselves, which is lovely when the fire's on.
• 11:48
  SPEAKER_00: But obviously, first thing in the morning, the fire's not on and it's plumbing freezing.
• 11:52
  SPEAKER_00: So we froze.
• 11:53
  SPEAKER_00: It was so cold.
• 11:55
  SPEAKER_00: There was nowhere to heat anything up.
• 11:58
  SPEAKER_00: There wasn't a cooker, there wasn't a microwave, there wasn't like there was utensils, there was a rice cooker, there was like it was amazing, but nowhere to heat food up.
• 12:09
  SPEAKER_00: So if you were going to have anything warm, you had to go out.
• 12:14
  SPEAKER_00: So breakfast, lunch, and dinner, which is fine, but it would have been kind of nice to have something to heat things up, which was whatever, whatever.
• 12:22
  SPEAKER_00: So no cooker.
• 12:24
  SPEAKER_00: Umundi is a very, very small place.
• 12:28
  SPEAKER_00: It's a very sort of like alternate, cool, hippie kind of place.
• 12:31
  SPEAKER_00: And we decided to go out for dinner, and they took, you were allowed to take your dogs, and it was a very beautiful little unique, expensive restaurant.
• 12:42
  SPEAKER_00: And it was, it was uh, it was different.
• 12:48
  SPEAKER_00: It was very different.
• 12:49
  SPEAKER_00: It was a night out and it was lovely, but it was very, very different.
• 12:53
  SPEAKER_00: Average to say the best.
• 12:55
  SPEAKER_00: Average.
• 12:57
  SPEAKER_00: I'm still recovering from the cold.
• 12:59
  SPEAKER_00: I'm still, I'm still was recovering from a cold when I was up there as well.
• 13:04
  SPEAKER_00: So I honestly, it was freezing.
• 13:07
  SPEAKER_00: I was blowing my nose.
• 13:09
  SPEAKER_00: The cabin that we booked, which you didn't really know when you booked it, was you know, the earlier place that I talked about that were up, we came up a few years ago, it was out in a field and you had the fire and everything.
• 13:20
  SPEAKER_00: It was I kind of pictured that, but a lot better version of that.
• 13:24
  SPEAKER_00: The cabin was at the back of somebody's house.
• 13:27
  SPEAKER_00: Like they were living in the front house, and we were just at the back of the house.
• 13:32
  SPEAKER_00: And she had a lot of rules.
• 13:35
  SPEAKER_00: There were a lot of rules, and I, if you know me, I'm not very good with rules outside of business.
• 13:42
  SPEAKER_00: I just, I'm a bit of a free spirit, and I found the rules that she was texting us a couple of times a day about, as well as information about the area, were a bit too much.
• 13:53
  SPEAKER_00: So, what I want to share about that is that there's the truth and the story.
• 14:00
  SPEAKER_00: The story is, yeah, we had a great time, it was amazing because we all like to stay a bit positive.
• 14:04
  SPEAKER_00: But if you've ever done anything like this and book trips away, and you kind of think you come back a bit long, hmm, okay, that was an interesting little trip.
• 14:14
  SPEAKER_00: I came back still very, very relaxed.
• 14:19
  SPEAKER_00: And even though all these little things happened, we kind of made fun of them.
• 14:24
  SPEAKER_00: Like we we sat out every night, there was a beautiful outdoor area and had a wine and chatted and stuff, and we kind of giggled about the funny stuff.
• 14:32
  SPEAKER_00: So making it a bit of a bit of a joke, we paid 400 bucks a night for this place and the aircon doesn't even work.
• 14:40
  SPEAKER_00: And so we kind of made it fun.
• 14:42
  SPEAKER_00: And all that to say, even if things don't really go to plan, and a lot of the times they don't, I still came back really refreshed.
• 14:51
  SPEAKER_00: We got away, we went out for dinner, we walked around the new money markets, we bought some beautiful stuff, and I felt really, really good.
• 14:58
  SPEAKER_00: So while it wasn't really ticking a lot of my boxes, I felt like I really did relax.
• 15:04
  SPEAKER_00: So I got the outcome and we kind of had a bit of a giggle about all the stuff.
• 15:07
  SPEAKER_00: So hopefully that's kind of gives some context around if you've ever sort of booked a trip away and it hasn't been lived up to your expectations, you can still take the benefits of coming home feeling relaxed.
• 15:19
  SPEAKER_00: So um, that's kind of why I why I want to share this.
• 15:24
  SPEAKER_00: The business lesson is the planning I did come up with when I was away.
• 15:29
  SPEAKER_00: So I did take my sketchbooks, as I said.
• 15:31
  SPEAKER_00: I didn't sketch anything.
• 15:32
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know why.
• 15:33
  SPEAKER_00: I just didn't get around to it.
• 15:35
  SPEAKER_00: But what I did do, I got them out and I got my colored pencils out, kind of like colored pencils, and I just started drawing out some things that I've got some ideas in the back of my head about my business.
• 15:47
  SPEAKER_00: And one of the ideas, which is really cool, that I came up with was off the back of an email I got from a client, an ex-client, and I'm so grateful that I get these, I get this amazing feedback, which just makes me feel so, so grateful that I get to do the work that I do.
• 16:06
  SPEAKER_00: But this one lady emailed me sharing with me that she'd finally taken a holiday overseas.
• 16:12
  SPEAKER_00: And when I um when I asked them years ago to write down like an audacious kind of goal, I don't remember this, but she said I asked everyone to write down an audacious kind of goal that they never thought that they'd achieve, but you know, write it down and let's see if we can achieve that.
• 16:28
  SPEAKER_00: She wrote down a goal, a particular place she wanted to go um overseas, and she emailed me to say that she actually just came back from there and that, you know, she was able to experience going overseas for the first time in her life.
• 16:41
  SPEAKER_00: It was the best holiday she'd ever had.
• 16:44
  SPEAKER_00: And honestly, the the feeling I had, I was crying when I read the email, but the feeling that I had was just overwhelmed.
• 16:52
  SPEAKER_00: I just like, wow, like wow, if you can say something like that and somebody follows through and does it and gets that kind of results, I need to do more of that.
• 17:05
  SPEAKER_00: So I started getting my colored pencils out on my sketching paper and I started sort of drawing out what might that look like if I did more of that.
• 17:14
  SPEAKER_00: What might that look like if I decided to take a group of women away to France?
• 17:21
  SPEAKER_00: Pierre's from France, his family lives in a village in Provence where we got married a couple of years ago.
• 17:28
  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely beautiful lavender fields to the most amazing food, people, landscape, wine, cheese, everything.
• 17:38
  SPEAKER_00: It's just so you come back a different person when you go to France, and particularly Provence.
• 17:43
  SPEAKER_00: It's just beautiful.
• 17:45
  SPEAKER_00: So I came up and I started drawing out like what might that look like, and how many would I take at a time, and what what would be the logistics of it?
• 17:54
  SPEAKER_00: And I started just drawing out some different stuff.
• 17:57
  SPEAKER_00: So my point with that is I took away my sketching pad and my pencils and acrylic paints and things.
• 18:04
  SPEAKER_00: I didn't do any of that, but I decided to get creative with the business.
• 18:09
  SPEAKER_00: I didn't even plan to do that, but I just sort of started thinking, what else could I do?
• 18:13
  SPEAKER_00: Like what with that?
• 18:14
  SPEAKER_00: Like, how could I start bringing that to life?
• 18:18
  SPEAKER_00: It may never ever come to fruition, but it got me thinking and it made me feel like I was creating something and thinking about different things.
• 18:27
  SPEAKER_00: And I would never have done that at home because I was sitting out on a veranda drinking some beautiful, like normally we drink pin on noir at home.
• 18:33
  SPEAKER_00: We were drinking white wine up there, and everything just kind of felt different.
• 18:38
  SPEAKER_00: So I guess that made me think differently, which was kind of cool.
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_00: So the business lesson is sometimes we don't have to plan a business planning session.
• 18:49
  SPEAKER_00: We can just start getting away and getting creative with what we're doing when we go away and without any particular game plan to do a business plan or a strategy plan.
• 19:01
  SPEAKER_00: There's a book that I haven't read, which I just researched that um feeds into this.
• 19:06
  SPEAKER_00: So it I like I I wanted to share this with you because I think getting away makes a big difference to your creativity and your zest for life and your want to do your business longer and and differently and to sort of enjoy it.
• 19:29
  SPEAKER_00: But there's there's no I I'm not giving you any statistics or anything with that.
• 19:33
  SPEAKER_00: It's just how I feel.
• 19:35
  SPEAKER_00: So I wanted to to share with you a book that would help back up what I feel.
• 19:41
  SPEAKER_00: This book is called Rest, Why You Get More Done When You Work Less.
• 19:47
  SPEAKER_00: It's by, I'm gonna try and pronounce this guy's name.
• 19:49
  SPEAKER_00: It's by a guy called Alex Sujun Kim Pang.
• 19:53
  SPEAKER_00: It explains the the rest that we have is not the opposite to productive work, it's part of the productive work.
• 20:01
  SPEAKER_00: So you it's part of being more productive when you rest.
• 20:04
  SPEAKER_00: Sounds kind of counterintuitive, doesn't it?
• 20:07
  SPEAKER_00: Pang uses research and examples from highly successful writers, scientists, creative thinkers to show how deliberate rest can improve your creativity and problem solving.
• 20:18
  SPEAKER_00: So when you think about it, what I was doing was creative.
• 20:22
  SPEAKER_00: I took my little pencils up and my sketch paper, didn't draw anything, but I started getting creative in my head because I was thinking about the email that I got from the ex-client, and then I started thinking, how can I do more of that?
• 20:32
  SPEAKER_00: So then I got creative.
• 20:34
  SPEAKER_00: He also goes on to say it restores uh focus and mental energy, help ideas develop subconsciously, which I think is what happened to me a little bit.
• 20:44
  SPEAKER_00: It reduces overwork without reducing your results.
• 20:48
  SPEAKER_00: Interestingly enough, you think if you're gonna take a holiday, it's you're gonna you're going to get less results, but not so.
• 20:53
  SPEAKER_00: So he says, and makes our working hours more effective.
• 20:57
  SPEAKER_00: Isn't that interesting?
• 20:59
  SPEAKER_00: So actually, taking a break does all those things, makes you better at what you do.
• 21:03
  SPEAKER_00: Who would think that?
• 21:05
  SPEAKER_00: And I know we consciously know that, but subconsciously, I think we don't take the breaks because we think we just have to keep working, working, working, working.
• 21:12
  SPEAKER_00: And we actually don't.
• 21:13
  SPEAKER_00: We actually have to keep taking breaks, taking breaks, taking breaks.
• 21:16
  SPEAKER_00: So I guess the thing that we need to do is take the break before you're forced to take it when you're not ready.
• 21:28
  SPEAKER_00: And I think you know what I'm getting at when I say that.
• 21:31
  SPEAKER_00: Take the break so we don't have to take a break when we're actually forced to from some health issue or some something that forces you to take the break because we don't want to get to that stage.
• 21:44
  SPEAKER_00: Hopefully, this has been helpful.
• 21:46
  SPEAKER_00: One of the things I will ask you um give me feedback, guys.
• 21:51
  SPEAKER_00: I sit here and do my podcast, and I hope and and pray that I'm making a difference.
• 21:59
  SPEAKER_00: If this new sort of format of me just riffing is a lot easier to listen to and hopefully more helpful, I would love to hear sharon at sharonfrancisco.com or you can yeah, send me an email, sharon at sharonfrancisco.com.
• 22:12
  SPEAKER_00: I would love to hear any feedback, the good, the bad, and the ugly.
• 22:16
  SPEAKER_00: Let me know so I can tailor it more.
• 22:18
  SPEAKER_00: Obviously, if you don't like it, just don't listen.
• 22:20
  SPEAKER_00: But if you do like it and you want me to tailor it more, or just let me know if it's uh the new format is working.
• 22:27
  SPEAKER_00: All right, guys, until next time, take care and I'll talk to you soon.
• 22:30
  SPEAKER_00: Bye.