2:26 is the magic time for me to start nodding off, I have no idea why, lol! I think it may be the number of hours I would have been awake plus digesting lunch, who knows! Because I'm up, or at least awake, by 5-5:30 a.m. every day, even weekends, my day has already been around 9 hours long by 2:26; it would have been a good couple of hours since lunch (we usually break around 11:30 around the office), and it would be time for an afternoon snack. I don't sleep in unless I'm ill or medicated.
One of the fellows at work was complaining about this very thing, too. His morning starts about the same time as mine, he goes out to the lake to row a few miles (he's on a Master's crew), and has been having a terrible time staying awake (he admitted to having fallen completely asleep the other day).
The past couple of days, as soon as I feel the doldrums coming on, I get up and take the stairs up to my boss's office on the second floor, or take a walk around the building outside.
Years ago, when I used to hold time management seminars, I read something about how each of us has an internal clock and a time of day when we shut down. Some people perform best in the morning and meet the doldrums in the afternoon; so they should schedule "brainless" tasks during down time. Others should schedule those tasks in the morning and meetings later in the day when they are the most mentally alert.
As for how to not get caught up in the momentum of our activities we're passionate about, that's a tough question to answer. Exhaustion shouldn't be the answer; ideally, we'd be more disciplined. I think we have to be more diligent about saying "no."
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2:26 is the magic time for me to start nodding off, I have no idea why, lol! I think it may be the number of hours I would have been awake plus digesting lunch, who knows! Because I'm up, or at least awake, by 5-5:30 a.m. every day, even weekends, my day has already been around 9 hours long by 2:26; it would have been a good couple of hours since lunch (we usually break around 11:30 around the office), and it would be time for an afternoon snack. I don't sleep in unless I'm ill or medicated.
One of the fellows at work was complaining about this very thing, too. His morning starts about the same time as mine, he goes out to the lake to row a few miles (he's on a Master's crew), and has been having a terrible time staying awake (he admitted to having fallen completely asleep the other day).
The past couple of days, as soon as I feel the doldrums coming on, I get up and take the stairs up to my boss's office on the second floor, or take a walk around the building outside.
Years ago, when I used to hold time management seminars, I read something about how each of us has an internal clock and a time of day when we shut down. Some people perform best in the morning and meet the doldrums in the afternoon; so they should schedule "brainless" tasks during down time. Others should schedule those tasks in the morning and meetings later in the day when they are the most mentally alert.
As for how to not get caught up in the momentum of our activities we're passionate about, that's a tough question to answer. Exhaustion shouldn't be the answer; ideally, we'd be more disciplined. I think we have to be more diligent about saying "no."
July 23, 2008 - 4:34pmThis Comment
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