How To Change Your Schedule For Better Productivity

It is very hard to maintain a productive schedule when you get sick.

I have lots of motivation, but not enough time to make these lists each day. It’s really boring.

I also feel guilty about my lack of productivity. I can usually identify the times or situations which I struggle with most. As I read this post, my thoughts turned to the times I struggle with most. I try to remember the things I can do to become more productive.

How to Change Your Schedule for Better Productivity

In those cases where you feel like a job, or you’re not productive at all, you can make a difference by altering your scheduling.

By making changes to your daily routine, you will achieve better productivity throughout the entire work day.

1. Balancing the Most Optimal Shifts with Necessity

If you work a regular Monday through Friday schedule, but Monday is not a work day, consider making it an off day.

I would have preferred working Monday-Friday as the situation was the reverse of my previous position but the additional salary and the increased number of staff was an incentive to switch.

The employer loved that because it expanded service without increasing payroll. Having Monday off allowed me to do chores, errands, and enjoy leisure time with my family.

2. No Plan Can Be Too Unorthodox

It’s not worth a big sacrifice if it’s not ultimately worth it. Even if it is ultimately worth it, consider whether you can find work that will allow you flexibility.

Since my schedule is not ideal, and since I have to spend most of my time working, I try to make the most of the time I have off (which is around 4 hours a week, usually Thursday and Friday). I like being able to be on my own and really relax.

My colleagues have been astounded by a number of things that I have done.

You can do it because your body needs 6 hours of sleep, but then you’ll have the opportunity for six hours of sleep. You’ll be able to go to bed at 10:00 PM on Monday, 8:00 PM on Tuesday, 6:00 PM on Wednesday. And you’ll have the opportunity for a great amount of sleep on Thursday.

Not feeling quite awake at midnight sounds like an exercise in torture but it is followed by a sharp increase in productivity.

3. Scientific Support for Night Owls

It could be that people are just more productive after they’ve been up. People that wake up early have a higher chance to be depressed.

In college, you are given a series of problems to do late at night. Then, you get a grade of your final performance. Thus proving that just doing whatever works can be a strategy.

If you’ve ever tried to get work done in the middle of the night, you know it’s hard to make progress.

I would like some more time to work on the script, because I need to make sure my voice is clear.

In a similar vein, it is common for authors to state that their idea is based on a previous story that was turned down. So, while they might be describing the story concept as a whole, they are actually describing the parts of the story that they are borrowing from.

Maybe the reason that people who are night owls are more successful is because they are more likely to be socially active.

A study in Australia has proven that the human brain seems to learn better while it sleeps and that this phenomenon is used by the brain to adapt and get ready for the night.

In a real-world study of people who drive in the morning or night, participants took simulated driving tests at different times of the day, and the results indicated that nighttime drivers and morning drivers have a tendency to drive more slowly and less carefully.

The research suggested that pilots, taxi drivers and nuclear power station workers should adapt their daily schedules to the natural time preferences of their employees.

After evaluating the sleep quality of morning and evening types of the nurses, there were differences in the study results to determine whether a nurse was a morning type or an evening type.

All the studies and research shows that if you do your most important tasks first thing in the morning, you will be more productive. This doesn’t mean to not do any other things like checking your emails and other social networking sites, but do your most important tasks first thing in the morning.

4. Working When the Mood Strikes

It is not secret that the brain is quite complex and, in fact, circadian rhythms vary with age and across gender to some extent. Sleep patterns are controlled by biological clocks, which feature many aspects of personality and intellectual performance.

Melatonin is naturally occurring hormone that helps our body control sleep cycles, body temperature, and blood pressure. Scientists have found that melatonin might enhance relaxation, assist sleep, and have ant-anxiety properties. Melatonin can be found in nutritional supplements, which are safe and can be taken alone or with other sleep aids.

A sleeping rhythm helps our brains anticipate daily variations: day and night, and the seasons.

As humans, we are very conscious of the different lengths of time, whether it be minutes or hours or days or decades, and we are often aware of how those periods of time fit together.

The internal biological clock keeps track of the time of day and has a particular rhythm that is independent of external time.

As a result, my body clock goes to the late night hours. With that, it makes sense that it would be beneficial to sleep when the body clock has the most restorative effects.

It feels later in the day, approaching the feeling of what feels more like midnight, where I am at my most productive.

This system will most likely provide an environment where you can focus when you want, sleep when you want, eat when you want and produce what you want.

5. Working in the Most Ideal Setting

The most important part of the workforce starts looking for companies that have a better remote working culture.

As mentioned earlier, people spend most of their time at work. This is not going to change anytime soon. It is in employers’ best interest to accommodate employees’ preferences for working times and locations. This is true for people both in the private and public sectors.

It can be very distracting working from home and people should make sure they have an office with a comfortable chair.

I could work from home but I would start working before the sun was up and I would have a morning coffee and a newspaper at my desk. I would try to limit myself to a couple of hours of work.

When we work from home, we often work at the same time as others around the world. This helps us to feel more connected with other workers and makes it feel less like we are all out here on our own.

It’s changed how we live. It’s created a whole industry that would not have existed without computers, mobile phones, the Internet, apps, social media and, of course, the cloud.

Mobile phones now can also help you with being more productive and self-aware. You can use the Thinking Tools app to uncover your analytical, innovative, procedural or relational sides.

I will give an example of an efficient, mindful approach, and you can apply this to other types of creative situations. Say you’re writing an email.

I honestly don’t know what to make of a life that’s driven solely by the need to prove your worth to a faceless, monochromatic entity that only values your productivity and not your creativity or personality.

6. Mindfulness and Self-Direction

As with most skills, we must be aware of when we are in a state of flow, in order to gain more control over our internal state.

There is relief in knowing that you can change your work schedule if you need to, but there is usually a better solution than that.

An employer can easily pick out those that have the skills and ability to get the job done if only they knew what they did.

Summary

It’s like this: Knowing all of this, maybe I have figured the cure for my weekly case of the Mondays: drink a glass of milk.