Every now and then we need a break from the routine. Every now and then we need to rest. Everything in nature is designed to take a break and rest. Our bodies are designed to rest and sleep and when we fail to do so our bodies fail to function as they should. Day and night and the changing of the seasons are designed to give the earth and its inhabitants rest. Ancient agrarians learned that even the soil needed to take a break sometimes in order to be more productive, so they rotated their crops or stopped growing in a plot of land in order to revitalize the soil. Employers learned that two fifteen-minute breaks and an hour for lunch make their employees more productive in an eight-hour workday.
Just as it takes discipline to work, it takes discipline to rest and take a break. It takes discipline to do something different. Take a nap from time to time. Take a different route home. Show up early for an appointment and relax. Send a loved-one flowers. Plan a debt-free vacation. Sit still and do nothing for twenty minutes and give your mind a break from thinking and worrying. Take time to read something interesting or entertaining. Turn off the television and let it rest. Even God took a break at the end of each day and rested at the end of a productive week.
If you have been on a long break, take a break from laziness and get up and do something. Laziness needs a break in order to function properly also. A mindset of success must have the discipline of doing and not doing, accompanied by the discipline of knowing when, where, and how they function. Get up or sit down but take a break from the routine.