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Keeping the break alive after returning

Guests describe how they protect what a break gave them once they are back at work: daily touch points, rest days, quarterly long weekends, mini breaks. Petro names this a 'sabbatical mindset', which is also the title of #039 rather than a defined method.

How it developed: It moves from individual guest routines to Petro naming the idea herself (#037). It then becomes a way of framing rest for people who never take a long break.

The thread's title and description are AI-written, drawn from the episodes below. The quotations are verbatim from the episode audio, each linked to the moment it was said.

What was said

“through, through all these various sabbaticals, I identified four or five things that are meaningful for my existence. So in a day, I try and ensure that I have some touch points with those things. Of course, there's days where, as you know, you just, corporate just runs away with you. If I have two or more of those kind of days, I then have to sit and reevaluate my life.”
— Fatima Collins, guest · #027 Purposeful Pauses | Fatima Collins · [20:50]
“a lot of the people I speak to save their leave until the end of the year to have a proper break, but to go the whole year without a break is actually not sustainable, you know, and we then encourage people to look at in each quarter to take a little bit of time out”
— Thea Weeks, guest · #031 Intentional Interludes | Thea Weeks · [39:15]
“So I started doing these mini breaks, you know, a, a weekend with not looking at the computer or the phone, and just very deliberately doing something different. Because I'd learned the importance of being mentally switched off and having a, a refresher that way.”
— Pamela Naidoo-Ameglio, guest · #037 Pausing to Pivot | Pamela Naidoo-Ameglio · [18:40]
“I have this concept which I call the sabbatical mindset. And it almost sounds like these mini breaks and mental health breaks are part of taking your sabbatical mindset back into the workplace with you and to maintain that break feeling”
— Petro du Pisani, host · #037 Pausing to Pivot | Pamela Naidoo-Ameglio · [19:43]
“you can't just once a year go and do something you like and then you go back and do something you hate and then you go. So you have to do it continuously.”
— Omri van Zyl, guest · #039 The Sabbatical Mindset | Omri van Zyl · [27:58]
“it's nice to have a bit of a, a longer break to reflect and do all of that, but then you have to try and sort of work shorter breaks into your actual life to make sure that you take time to pause and reflect.”
— Petro du Pisani, host · #044 We need a new future | Carmen Murray · [15:02]

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