Successful Startup 101: September 2014 Successful Startup 101: September 2014 | Page 42

1. Recover from work:
The first benefit is the obvious one. Taking a break helps
to regain strengths and focus. I highly recommend taking
a nap, maybe not every day but on those days when you
are feeling more exhausted. In a few days you will feel
the difference. If you don’t believe I invite to read this
article about napping.

2. Isolating the really
important things to do:
When you take a break, you can focus on the really
important things. Analyzing what’s best for your business
and the tasks you have to be doing. Than after that little
break you can focus on all those things, making you feel
your work was way more productive.

3. Remember things that
you haven’t done:
There are tasks that sometimes we forget to do,
more often than you think. Maybe buy something,
pay something, send an email or even make a call
at certain hour. Taking a break makes your mind
clear, it’s like when you go to bed at night and then
you just remember everything you had to do, but
without the inconvenience of “it’s already night!”

4. Opportunity to keep in
touch:
Disconnected from all the work, you have the
opportunity to make some calls or send a text to
your friends you haven’t seen, to call your family or
whoever you miss and want to call. To maintain your
relationships when you become an entrepreneur is

sometimes hard, but always try to keep in touch with
the people that have always been there for you.

5. Finding new ideas:
This happens to me a lot, doesn’t matter if I’m taking
a break or enjoying my weekend, there’s always a new
idea that pops up onto my head. To be honest not always
the idea has something to do with work, but the few
ideas that pops out have helped me in changin