I’m up between 4:30 and 5:15 most weekday mornings.\u00a0 No, not claiming some early morning virtue here.\u00a0 I do that for three reasons.\u00a0 A couple of mornings a week, I open the local gym before my workout.\u00a0 The rest of the time, I figure I might as well have my body used to getting up that early.\u00a0 Since I’m up, it’s easiest just to get that workout out of the way then so I don’t have it hanging over my head all day.<\/p>\n
The biggest reason is sheer laziness.\u00a0 Yep, laziness.\u00a0 If I have an article to write for a client, it takes me about a quarter of the time if I do it before noon that it would take me if I tried to do it after noon.\u00a0 It’s weird that the difference in how well my brain works and when is so dramatic, but it is.<\/p>\n
Since I work to the job instead of by the hour, getting up and getting going right away is the most cost-effective way for me to work.<\/p>\n
Not everyone is a morning person, of course.\u00a0 There are people whose brains simply do not turn on<\/em> until late afternoon.<\/p>\n The question I have is:\u00a0 Do you know when your brain is sharpest and do you schedule your life in harmony with that?\u00a0 Do you know what environmental factors help this?<\/p>\n For instance, my brain is sharpest after a really hard workout.\u00a0 Yet, I used to date a guy who found that heavy physical labor sapped his mental capacity, so he rarely chose to exercise anywhere near<\/em> time to do work requiring clear thought.<\/p>\n This isn’t just for self-employed people by the way.\u00a0 When I used to work in an office, I tried to schedule the “brain” tasks for before lunch and routine stuff for after lunch.\u00a0 I also learned that coming home from an office to try to do webdev type work after dinner Just Wasn’t Going to Happen.\u00a0 I think that one of the reasons that the freelance writing profession is overwhelmingly represented by night owls has a lot to do with the fact that it was the night owls who were able to work a day job and<\/em> work at night until they were established as writers.\u00a0 That this happened to ole up-with-the-chickens No\u00ebl is a bit of luck and a whole bunch of audacity.<\/p>\n Do you know your own rhythm?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m up between 4:30 and 5:15 most weekday mornings.\u00a0 No, not claiming some early morning virtue here.\u00a0 I do that for three reasons.\u00a0 A couple of mornings a week, I open the local gym before my workout.\u00a0 The rest of the time, I figure I might as well have my body used to getting up … <\/p>\n