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Simple Step: Take A Break
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In this Simple Step episode we discuss the vital importance of taking a break. Highlighting research findings, they reveal that rest can boost productivity by 80%. Arron admits his struggles with taking time off, while Phillip shares his strategies for managing work during vacations. They emphasize the necessity of downtime for better performance and challenge listeners to incorporate more breaks into their routines. Tune in to learn practical tips for enhancing productivity through rest.
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Introduction
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Everyone dreams of living an uncommon life and the best asset you have to achieve your dreams is you. Welcome to the Uncommon Wealth Podcast. We're going to introduce you to the people who are living uncommonly.
Uncommon Wealth Strategies
00:00:16
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We're also going to give you some tools and strategies for building wealth and for pursuing an uncommon path that is uniquely right for you. Hello. Welcome, everybody, to an episode of the Uncommon Wealth Podcast, where I'm your host, Philip Ramsey.
00:00:31
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And I'm Aaron Kramer. Thanks for tuning in. We have a simple step for you. Today, I like these. They're under five minutes. They're quick. They're right at
The Power of Rest
00:00:38
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you. Today, Aaron has no idea what we're going to talk about, so I love kind of surprising him. ah We're talking about taking time off, taking rest. Yep. Trying to figure out why to do it one and then two, why is it beneficial in five minutes? But the other thing is like, are you taking a rest? That's the point. All right. Two statistics for you. You ready for this? Yeah. Humans are simply more productive when rested. Reach researcher Mark, uh, Rose kind of alert solutions. Find out that the respite effect of vacation can increase performance by what percentage do you think?
00:01:12
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Oh my gosh. Uh, 50% 80% Aaron. Oh man. And that's why we're doing this simple step. 80% can increase performance. Holy cow. That's kind of signal. wow The other thing, like if you can't do a full vacation arrest, um, those who took short breaks as another statistic, which I don't know how powerful these statistics are, but I found it on Google. So it's gotta be true. Uh, 9% more productive for those who did not take breaks. So I feel like that's something to talk about. Are you taking a break? Are you taking vacation? Are you resting? It's beneficial. Even though you don't think in your mind it is, it actually is.
Overcoming Break Anxiety
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Aaron, what do you think? Well, I suck at this. You totally do. I know. Um, I do pretty good about shutting it down for a week or not a week, a day, like Sundays. I'm like,
00:02:04
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I get, see, I would like, art it's funny cause you can't, I mean, it I'm sure it helps, but it carries anxiety for me to take a week off. Yeah. Okay. So then that's a pretty good thing. Like if, if you're like Aaron and it's producing anxiety in you, what would you have to do for it? Not to, so like put like a list of things of like, this is why I'm, excited and like my anxiety is high. This is why boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Yeah. Like what can you do in order to train those around you to help take that off your plate? And everybody's different. So that's going to have to be singly for you specifically. But I think that's a good simple step for you, Aaron. What is it that we could take off your plate so you're not feeling anxiety when you go on your next vacation? My brain. Yeah. That's awesome it's a good one.
00:02:52
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Yeah, wow, what do you think about Phil? What do you do? Because you? Well, i I do feel like the team allows me to take more rest and vacations than I should. But you know I have somebody reading my email and just kind of like filtering those things out.
Managing Work During Absences
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um This last vacation I went on for spring break, i the my emails were completely forwarded to somebody else. That gave me high anxiety. So I kind of like to just look through the emails quick, just glance at them like five, 10 minutes at the end of the day, knowing that somebody's taking care of it. But if there's something big, I can jump in there. So the fact that I didn't get any sent to me, that was like, Ooh, that didn't work very well. So it's kind of a balance. But I will say that I trust the team that we have, like,
00:03:41
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basically to the demise of this company. And it helps me relax, right? Like I feel like I've, we've done a lot of work. Like you do a great job of like, Hey, what can I take off your plate? We communicate before I go on vacation. So those are the things on my list that I had to maybe yeah make sure that we did, but now it's feeling like I can go on vacation and not be completely stressed out of my mind that something's going to fall. I will say that that is, that has been like ah for people in like, I'm, Please know, I just said, like, we've both admitted, like, I suck at this, so I'm preaching to the choir here. But does, like, watching you, Phillip, it's taken some time to, like...
00:04:19
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like really like trust the process. Cause like, you know, beforehand, you know, before we had our big, you had your big breakup with yeah Brian, every time you came back, it was, you could just hear it in your voice. Like, how did it go? yeah Things like that. yeah And so then when Brian left, he still kind of had that. And then after like a couple of times you were like, no, it went good. And you came back and it was fine. It was good. And you were like, oh, I think I maybe can actually enjoy myself here. That's right. That's right. All right, so are you taking breaks ah within your day?
Conclusion & Call to Action
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And then are you taking longer respites where you can just relax? That's our challenge to you, because it's going to matter when you're creating things, when you're building things, when you're pouring yourself out time and time again. You just need time for yourself to recharge, regenerate, and kind of like refuel so you can go back and just serve other people. That's our simple step for today. You've been listening to Uncomma Wealth Podcast. I've been your host, Philip Ramsey. And I'm Aaron Kramer. Until next time, go take a break.
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