Comments on: How To Become a Highly Productive Night Owl http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/how-to-be-a-highly-productive-night-owl/ Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:39:09 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Alissa http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/how-to-be-a-highly-productive-night-owl/comment-page-2/#comment-79487 Alissa Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:36:39 +0000 http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/how-to-be-a-highly-productive-night-owl/#comment-79487 Getting up at 6am after 8 hours sleep leaves me feeling totally exhausted by noon, which is currently a problem for my helpdesk job. However, if I get up at noon I can happily work my ass off until 2am, have an hour or so to wind down and comfortably go to bed about 3-4am. No tiredness mid-"day", no insomnia. Having a work cut-off time is essential, and keeping to it can be very difficult. Sometimes the first thing that tips me off that I've worked past it is the dawn chorus striking up, so now I have a stop-working-and-wind-down alarm as well as a wake-up alarm. Getting up at 6am after 8 hours sleep leaves me feeling totally exhausted by noon, which is currently a problem for my helpdesk job.

However, if I get up at noon I can happily work my ass off until 2am, have an hour or so to wind down and comfortably go to bed about 3-4am. No tiredness mid-”day”, no insomnia.

Having a work cut-off time is essential, and keeping to it can be very difficult. Sometimes the first thing that tips me off that I’ve worked past it is the dawn chorus striking up, so now I have a stop-working-and-wind-down alarm as well as a wake-up alarm.

]]> By: Amanda@choosing-life-my-way.com http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/how-to-be-a-highly-productive-night-owl/comment-page-2/#comment-76557 Amanda@choosing-life-my-way.com Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:36:37 +0000 http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/how-to-be-a-highly-productive-night-owl/#comment-76557 As a fellow night-owl, I really enjoyed this article. They do say the early bird catches the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese haha ;) As a fellow night-owl, I really enjoyed this article. They do say the early bird catches the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese haha ;)

]]> By: carol http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/how-to-be-a-highly-productive-night-owl/comment-page-2/#comment-74591 carol Fri, 14 Aug 2009 12:58:27 +0000 http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/how-to-be-a-highly-productive-night-owl/#comment-74591 Hi, glad to see something like this written. well, I've seen some people who work best at night and they can be very creative too during these hours. I think it all boils down to working within your "body's hour". like stated in the article, this is the hour when your mind is at its best. great article. thanks. :) Hi, glad to see something like this written.

well, I’ve seen some people who work best at night and they can be very creative too during these hours. I think it all boils down to working within your “body’s hour”. like stated in the article, this is the hour when your mind is at its best. great article. thanks. :)

]]> By: farouk http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/how-to-be-a-highly-productive-night-owl/comment-page-2/#comment-72763 farouk Sat, 30 May 2009 12:14:08 +0000 http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/how-to-be-a-highly-productive-night-owl/#comment-72763 that's a really useful article, i get a creepy mood when i wake up late because of the delayed tasks i have to go through that’s a really useful article, i get a creepy mood when i wake up late because of the delayed tasks i have to go through

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]]> By: Bernadette http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/how-to-be-a-highly-productive-night-owl/comment-page-1/#comment-63522 Bernadette Tue, 15 Jul 2008 06:22:28 +0000 http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/how-to-be-a-highly-productive-night-owl/#comment-63522 Although a great article with good tips..the not sleeping over...I wouldn't say getting up at 8am is being a night owl...NO way. 8am is EARLY! I can't think of a day when I have seen 8am since school is out for my children. I come from a whole family of night people, with a few early birds mixed in. Those of us that are night owls rarely get up before noon..and when we do it's not pretty. I have always tried to fight my natural sleep rhythm by trying to force the 9-5...yet I cannot go to sleep early, therefore it catches up to me and I am exhausted..or I am chronically grumpy. It is extremely hard to be a night person in an early bird world, especially after becoming a parent...kids do not care what your sleep cycle is! Thank you though for not telling a night owl to just get up early..or you'll get used to it..I'd love to switch shoes with those people so they could see it's just not that easy. Although a great article with good tips..the not sleeping over…I wouldn’t say getting up at 8am is being a night owl…NO way. 8am is EARLY! I can’t think of a day when I have seen 8am since school is out for my children.
I come from a whole family of night people, with a few early birds mixed in. Those of us that are night owls rarely get up before noon..and when we do it’s not pretty. I have always tried to fight my natural sleep rhythm by trying to force the 9-5…yet I cannot go to sleep early, therefore it catches up to me and I am exhausted..or I am chronically grumpy.
It is extremely hard to be a night person in an early bird world, especially after becoming a parent…kids do not care what your sleep cycle is!
Thank you though for not telling a night owl to just get up early..or you’ll get used to it..I’d love to switch shoes with those people so they could see it’s just not that easy.

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