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Peak Productivity Hours: How To Maximize Your Working Time
“Sometimes” is more about when you do it than how you do it
Productivity is a buzzword nowadays. Everyone wants to seize those 24-hours to their best of their capabilities. We use timers, and SMART goals, diaries, and the latest gadgets to be as productive as possible, to make sure that when we work we are making enough progress. However, many of us don’t focus on using our inner tools and self-knowledge to actually make the most of our working hours.
When you do the work is just as important as how you do it?
Taking some time out of our busy days to understand when we are more productive — when our brains are more active, curious, and have better memory — and when we are not so much — we feel tired, and hard work is the last thing we want to do — is just as important as getting all the technological tools to be more efficient in our work.
Realizing whether you work best in the morning, middle of the day, afternoon, or evening can help you prioritize your tasks in a way that you are using the fresh mental capacity for those tasks that require a more laser focus and creativity, whilst leaving your sluggish mental hours for when you have to do repetitive work that requires no real thinking…
