Productivity Cycle
I’ve recently come to a significant discovery about my productivity cycle.
Wednesday is my strong day.
During a “normal” 5 day work week, you can find my productivity cycle is lowest on Monday and Tuesday. Wednesday and Thursday have this huge kick — I get the most done on these two days. Friday will see me tapering off, but still more productive than Monday or Tuesday (possibly combined).
During a “long” 7 (actually 12 day) work week, my productivity cycle is completely whacked. I’ll push my top productivity juices from Wednesday of week 1 to as long as I can (usually somewhere on Sunday or Monday of week 2). Monday afternoon will experience the crash. Absolute 0 productivity. Tuesday will see a ramp up similar to a normal Monday. Wednesday will be either Monday #2 and/or Tuesday. Thursday might be Tuesday #2, but more probably is a Wednesday. Friday will be Thursday. And the glorious weekend of sleep will then finally commence.
Most Saturdays are sleep days. Sleep in as long as possible. If we just survived a long week, this might be sleeping from dark to dark, Friday night until Saturday night. That’s around 20 hours. A normal Saturday is more like 12 to 14 hours.
Sundays are often similar to Saturdays, except that I’ll attempt to leave my Cave, at least for a little while. Not always.