7 Good Minutes: Extra — Name It, Park It, Give It a Reason

Here's a two-minute move you can use right before your next break, so the break actually gives you something back.

The guilt you feel when you stop isn't really about your list — it's about where your attention goes once you sit down. This Extra walks through four small steps: naming the one loudest thing most likely to follow you into the break, parking it somewhere outside your head, giving the break one honest reason, and making a small physical shift so the moment reads as different from the one you just left.

You won't stop thinking about the list completely. But it will pull at you less often — and that's the difference between a break that happened to you and one that actually counted.


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