Tuesday, July 26, 2016
6 Ways Night Owls Can Thrive in a 9-to-5 Work World
www.learnvest.com: Crack-of-dawn conference calls, breakfast meetings or even the fact that the office coffee maker is always turned off by noon are just a few examples of how the work world really is designed for early risers. You know the type—those perky folks who leap out of bed with the sun and begin winding down as evening falls.
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It's nice to see tips about making work easier in the morning besides "drink a glass of cold water" and "something random about caffeine". There's only so much waking up caffeine can do for me, especially since I'm super sensitive to caffeine with my anxiety. Some of these tips could definitely help both with long tech calls and my schoolwork. The concept of making lists of mundane tasks that need to get done seems like a really great idea to try out. I'm never my freshest first thing in the morning and I know sitting down to make cut lists or drawings of set pieces is something I can't handle early morning on Saturday calls. Maybe I'll try filling out my paperwork and some basic research/shopping early in the morning to allow myself to wake up. I've already gotten down the streamlined morning routine so unfortunately no more sleeping time can be squeezed out of my mornings.
I find that I can only work once I’ve been working. What I mean by that is that I find myself able to complete big pieces of work only once I have been up and working beforehand. I struggled with productivity for a long time, but recently have found a system that works for me. When I wake up, I will start with simple tasks like filling out paperwork or organizing my space. Then I am ready to move on to more complex tasks. I do my best work after dinner time, so I save my hardest work for then. This is a great system for me when I have the whole day to myself, but I still struggle to get work done when the only time I have is in the morning. Something I might try to maximize my night time hours, is to bring work home with me. By having work on hand, I can work further in to the night if I have a spurt of energy.
Personally, I am more of an early bird; I thrive between the hours of 4am and 10am, if I go to bed at a reasonable hour. I feel as though these tips would also be helpful for people who are early birds. I have found that many of the tips that are mentioned are helpful for me. In the late afternoon and at night, I never want to do anything but sleep and watch Netflix. I will often bring work home to do it early in the morning, or prepare myself for the morning, so that I have more time to do stuff in the morning. Similar to what the article says, workdays and school days are not at time that people will thrive. Studies show that most adolescence brains do not start functioning until at least 10am, which means that school starts way to early for things to be successful. Habits started at a young age stay with people until later in life, so we need to start school later so that people would be more productive during work.
This article has given me some of the best information on how to defeat those harsh early mornings. I can't stand getting up at 6:00 and working at 7:30, and sometimes it's hard for me to truly get exceptional work done at that time. And it's great to see someone suggesting something other than just coffee to help people like me get through the mornings. Personally, coffee doesn't help out to much so these 6 tips are a much system for me. Mostly because of lot of it is based off of organization, which is somethings i need to work on. Creating schedules and lists are something I usually don't do, but if I start doing this as the school year starts back up, it will really help me be ready to take on my first class and be more prepared for the other ones if those organizational skills translates to my schoolwork as well.
Me personally, I’m more of a night owl, so I can’t wait to try these tips out. I generally have trouble working in the morning because I have so much work to do during the school year that I have ended up staying up later and later, basically changing my internal clock and making it harder to go to sleep earlier and get up earlier in the morning. I think as homework loads get larger and larger for younger and younger kids, a lot of people have gotten used to getting less sleep at later hours. I personally face a lot of problems with productivity in the morning until about 11 o’clock if I wake up at my usual wake up time for school. I doubt these tips will work as well in a school setting in which students have classes in the morning that they have to be awake and productive to get something out of the class, but perhaps it will help students to get a bit more sleep and be a bit more productive in the morning than coffee or some form of energy drink.
I am a hardcore night person. I feel much more productive when I am able to work late in to the night because I feel like I have been able to create more time to do my work; however, it is such a challenge to be able to put all of my energy in to my work during the night and then go to classes the next day and be awake and alert. The main point I got from this article is that the most important thing to do is to find methods and accommodations that allow you to keep your night owl status but be efficient in your work. A main way that I do that is I write everything down and keep hyper organized lists so I can track my progress as I complete tasks whether they be related to work or are personal.
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