Get up at 5 a.m., take a shower, find something to wear, cook
breakfast, wake the kids up, prepare their lunch, see them out the door, find
your car keys, get to work…and that’s just the first 4 hours of the day. What
are you going to be doing for the remaining 20 hours? Thank goodness breathing
comes naturally, because if we had to think about it, we probably wouldn’t have
the time to devote to yet another task. Perhaps you have heard the now famous
cliché, I ain’t got time fo’ that!’
by Sweet Brown who was victim to a fire in her apartment complex?
The key is that we make time for things we want to make time
for. I’ll bet during the workday you had time to surf the Internet, pay a bill
online, or maybe even check your Facebook account to see what is today’s hot
topic? Even though you had a project due at the end of the day. Well, I ‘m
asking you to make time for one more thing – a pause. It’s important, and I
can’t stress enough (unless you like stress), to take a breather, break,
timeout, or just pause – call it a Self-Induced Intermission (SII pronounced 'Sigh'). You are voluntarily stopping and letting your mind catch up. This is the point of refocus.
Here are examples of Self-Induced Intermissions that you can
do throughout the day:
