Well, I just wasted half an hour or so (and 99 cents) trying to find an episode of the old Bob Newhart show that illustrates the above principle. I thought I’d found the correct episode and paid Amazon to watch it, but it was the wrong one. I think I’d better quit looking and just talk about what I can remember.
Anyway, for some reason that scene has stayed with me. Of course the point of the scene is to set up the Froot Loops line, but my takeaway was that Emily’s being smart by not just lazing around. She’s off to something active and new, something completely different from her job as school principal. Perhaps I remember the scene because I taught school for so many years and very much looked forward to vacations myself. (Although I usually ended up working all summer to pay the bills.) But often I ended up just wasting time.
Now that I work from home and do a variety of tasks I’m finding it to be more and more true that I have to keep myself on a schedule and get stuff done. So if I need a break, I can’t flop down and read a book or watch an episode of a cooking show or whatever. I need to just switch gears and do something else that’s still profitable. I’ll come back to my original endeavor just as refreshed as if I had flopped.
How do you deal with needing a break but also needing to keep going?