![]() ![]() And when I repeated that feat in San Diego a few years later I realised it wasn’t just a one off. The jet lag point was also interesting to me as I always say that “I don’t subscribe to the jetlag myth”! I once went to Australia for six days and didn’t get jetlag in either direction. Little Doddsy rarely eats breakfast, which has always worried me when the schools are always going on about having a good breakfast to aid concentration at school, but she just doesn’t feel hungry when she first gets up. The table towards the bottom makes interesting reading. If you’re wondering where you fit in the lark-owl argument, have a look at this article asking if you’re “ a Lark, an Owl or a Hummingbird?“. Sometimes that won’t work with other things that are going on in your schedule but if you can stick to that as much as possible then you get more of a chance that you will be working at your best most often. It’s about finding the best time for you and planning your tasks and focus around that in advance. I can’t help thinking that if you combine decision fatigue with trying to work at a time that isn’t optimal for your body, then you are doomed to fail! Having said that, working late in the day might not avoid decision fatigue either if all your energy for that has been used up earlier in the day! There is a lot of research that talks about decision fatigue that we only have a certain amount of energy during the day to make decisions and that once it’s gone it’s gone. And what happens? It takes two or three times as long to do it than it would have done if you were working on it at the best time of day for you. I’m sure you’ve been there you have to get something done but you just don’t have the energy – and hence the interest – for it. The Effect of Trying to be Productive at the Wrong Time And this week I’m going to rethink what I do and when to ‘work’ to suit me again. So I thought I’d write a blog post for those people who are also night owls to add to the online conversation about maybe not having to get up early to fit in a routine before the business world starts. And that, with that knowledge, my morning routine can be quite different to ‘how I think it should be’ from most of the stuff I’m reading online. It reminded me that I am a night owl and that actually that’s ok. Now I need to be up to get Ellie off to school at 8.30 or to get into London for meetings so to do any sort of quiet morning routine I need to be up by 6.30 at the latest – and it just isn’t happening! Productivity for Night OwlsĪnd so I was mightily relieved to read Mike Vardy’s ‘ The Night Owl Action Plan‘ ebook. When Ellie was off on the school bus at 7.30am Simon, my husband, sorted her out and I worked late and stayed in bed in the morning. The trouble is my life doesn’t really lend itself to being a night owl at the moment. And I’ve been struggling to get back to it since the end of the school holidays. I spent a few months creating a morning routine of reading and getting ready for the day, which completely slipped during the holidays when I didn’t get up early enough to do it. And, if you’re a night owl, you won’t be surprised to hear that I’m raring to do some work or reading or other stuff at 10pm, not sleep! In order to fit in a morning routine I decided I needed to get up earlier around 6am, which in turn meant I needed to go to sleep earlier, around 10pm.Įllie doesn’t go to sleep until 9.30 (at the earliest!) so that leaves me with little time to do anything other than go to bed myself if I stick to the 10pm deadline. I was also reading a lot about morning routines. I can’t have it both ways I suppose!Ī few months ago I kept reading that it’s much better for your body to go to bed around 10/11pm. Having said that waiting for her to go to sleep in the evenings has always been a challenge, not to mention getting her up when she needs to be somewhere early (even getting her up for school is a challenge at times!). I’ve always been grateful that she doesn’t wake up at 6am or some other unearthly hour. I’ve been reading a productivity book this week that is all about productivity for night owls.ĭo you know if you’re an early bird or a night owl? I have known that I’m a night owl for a long, long time. ![]()
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