Make this schedule tweak to recharge your brain

✅ Today’s tip: Put white space on your calendar.

Free time shouldn’t just be a reward for finishing your work. Instead, Michael Thompson writes, allowing your mind to wander is a requirement for finding ideas, solving problems, and opening yourself to new opportunities. So at the beginning of every week, before you get bombarded with invitations to meetings and other events, block off some white space (if you have a shared calendar, make the event visible so no one can schedule over that time).

“Treat your breaks like you would a meeting with your boss and be on time for them,” Thompson writes. “There’s a big difference between thinking you need a break and knowing that in 20 minutes, you have to take one.”

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