{"id":7871,"date":"2017-05-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/business\/taking-a-break-can-make-you-more-effective\/"},"modified":"2019-09-29T20:01:19","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T01:01:19","slug":"taking-a-break-can-make-you-more-effective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wellness\/taking-a-break-can-make-you-more-effective\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking a break can make you more effective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many of us are guilty of working through lunch, eating over the keyboard in the name of productivity. Whether we want to finish something up, we&#8217;re behind on a deadline, or we simply deem ourselves &#8220;too busy&#8221;, we don&#8217;t step away from our desks and take a break.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-controls=\"0\" data-card-align=\"center\" data-card-theme=\"light\">\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mindful.org\/take-relaxing-lunch-break\/\">Why You Should Take a Relaxing Lunch Break &#8211; Mindful<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>I know the importance of breaks in a workday. The science clearly shows that taking a cognitive timeout helps us to work better and feel better, and personal experience confirms that. But, still&#8230; Like many Americans, I sometimes find myself working right through lunch.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of us are guilty of working through lunch, eating over the keyboard in the name of productivity. Whether we want to finish something up, we&#8217;re behind on a deadline, or we simply deem ourselves &#8220;too busy&#8221;, we don&#8217;t step away from our desks and take a break.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.mindful.org\/suttie-break.jpg?q=80&fm=jpg&fit=crop&w=1400&h=875","fifu_image_alt":"Taking a break can make you more effective","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[296,145,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-7871","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wellness","8":"tag-mindful","9":"tag-productivity","10":"tag-stress_management"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7958,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7871\/revisions\/7958"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}