What is your Peak Time?
So my “BIG QUESTION” for you is; What is your peak time? When are you the most Motivated? Not what motivates you, but what hour of the day are you at your best? I was thinking about doing some research on this topic of peak productivity times, but the fact is….I know when I am at my best! I don’t need a study to tell me otherwise or to confirm.
I am asking you guys to chime in here and let me know when is your peak hour of the day? Do you take a nap during the day? If so, does this help your productivity? How many hours of sleep do you need? If you need less than 7 hours of sleep and feel great when you wake how old are you?
Yea, lots of questions….I am curious? It seems to me that techies by nature are night owls. Myself, I am a night owl. I wake up at 5:30 AM every morning to get my butt to my day job. I literally have to drag my butt out, and when I get there I don’t really feel awake for at least an hour.
If I wake at say 7 A.M. I am progressively better, and at 8 A.M I am a bull ready to pull a plow through a muddy field. My dilemma however is the evening. I am writing this post, and it’s 9:40 PM. I feel like I’m just getting a second wind, heck maybe even a first wind. Nice healthy dinner at 6:30 and by 8PM I am ready to go out to my wood shop and work until midnight or better. Problem with that is “I have a day Job!” 5:30 a.m. wake up after working in my wood shop until midnight for me would be almost impossible. So I am forced to be in bed by 11PM. My mind racing with creative ideas, and my body telling me to go out to the wood shop. When 5:30 A.M. rolls around, my body is saying, just another couple of hours and I’ll be set to go.
Are you a night person or a morning person? Are you both? And How long have you been that way? Has anyone ever said “you’ll get used to waking up early.”? What’s the deal, I have been doing this for years and the fact still remains that my bodies natural cycle is not that of my day job. How important do you feel this subject is in your creativity and productivity?
Please, hit the comment button, and let me know.
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June 12th, 2008 at 5:14 am
It’s 6:15am here in Seattle and my body thinks it’s dinnertime
My peak productivity is always at night, and if I’m up at 6 or 7 working, it’s because I never went to bed, not because I woke up early.
My personal goal is to be in a position as often as possible where I can set my own schedule — stay awake until I’m tired, then sleep until I wake up, with no alarms or set constraints. This gives me hours and hours of extra time each week, which I treasure. I’m suspicious of any article that blanketly states that waking up early results in increased productivity — for me, waking up early results in increased zombiness and therefore lower productivity overall.
June 14th, 2008 at 10:57 am
I’m defiantly a morning person. I bounce out of bed at 7 am ready to go and that lasts until about 5pm. Then I switch to dinner and relaxation mode and by 11pm or Midnight I’m sound asleep.
June 16th, 2008 at 1:58 am
I’m NEVER a morning person. Being woken up by an alarm clock always makes me feel somewhat annoyed, and I find that it’s only until much later in the night that I find myself able to burst my creativity.
Normally though, it’s at about 7pm - 1am that things really start to kick off in my head.
July 7th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
One theory about non-morning people is that they have a longer than 24-hour internal clock. Don’t recall where I heard this, but apparently some people, if put into an experimental environment with no natural lighting and no time cues, will fall into other rhythms such as being up for 20 hours and sleeping for 10. For people with a 24+ hour clock, it’s like starting every day with jet lag.
August 13th, 2008 at 1:12 am
The peak hour according to me is definitely morning because I will be busy by house hold activities and going to office.
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Seema
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