I’m quite a good morning-worker, but I tend to have a major slump after I’ve accomplished my first one or two tasks of the day. I need to take a break at this point, but sometimes this break turns into never actually managing to get started again that day at all.
So on days when I can, I trick myself into getting two morning-fresh-starts by doing my first task or two before my usual morning routine (shower, get dressed, etc. Breakfast is exempt from this because I don’t work well at all when I’m hungry). When I run out of steam, I go and have the shower etc. That’s a nice bit of a break, and when I come back my mind seems to be tricked into thinking it’s just beginning the morning again. I can get at least a couple more hours’ work done before the slump kicks in again.
Now I need another trick that I can use to get re-started after that… and I also need to work out how I can apply a similar trick on days when I have to go out somewhere first thing and therefore can’t use the not-showering trick...
I’m quite a good morning-worker, but I tend to have a major slump after I’ve accomplished my first one or two tasks of the day. I need to take a break at this point, but sometimes this break turns into never actually managing to get started again that day at all.
So on days when I can, I trick myself into getting two morning-fresh-starts by doing my first task or two before my usual morning routine (shower, get dressed, etc. Breakfast is exempt from this because I don’t work well at all when I’m hungry). When I run out of steam, I go and have the shower etc. That’s a nice bit of a break, and when I come back my mind seems to be tricked into thinking it’s just beginning the morning again. I can get at least a couple more hours’ work done before the slump kicks in again.
Now I need another trick that I can use to get re-started after that… and I also need to work out how I can apply a similar trick on days when I have to go out somewhere first thing and therefore can’t use the not-showering trick...