In "Action and Contemplation", Aldous Huxley wrote the following: "Pragmatism regards action as the end and thought as the means to that end; and contemporary

In "Action and Contemplation", Aldous Huxley wrote the following: "Pragmatism regards action as the end and thought as the means to that end; and contemporary popular philosophy accepts the pragmatist position. In the philosophy underlying Eastern and Western spiritual religion this position is reversed. Here, contemplation is the end, action (in which is included discursive thought) is valuable only as a means to the beatific vision of reality." So you can take a break from work to improve your overall productivity and that's okay. But you could as well consider work as a necessity of our material lives while the peaceful moment where you can make and drink tea is in itself the real deal.