Leader, you need a consistent rhythm of breaks – whatever that looks like for you. Certainly the weekend can help. It will be an even better weekend if you properly take time to prepare for it.
In my experience, however, if we are not careful the weekend passes so quickly we begin another work week feeling we wasted the weekend we had. Or we are so stressed by the week behind or the week ahead that all we do is catch our breath and we can’t fully enjoy the weekend.
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