Self-knowledge

What are my best and most productive times of day?

Are you a morning person or an evening person? When do you have your biggest focus for important tasks? This is a question of when is the best time in the day for you to have periods of 30-60 minutes of focused working time where you can really concentrate on getting important things done rather than one about setting hours aside to lose yourself in a task.

• When is it a good time for you to read?
• When do you find it easiest to write something?
• If you were to answer emails only once a day when would it be most useful for you to do that?
• If you were to take a break from using the Internet for an hour a day when would that be the most effective for you?

Resilience can be built by the completion of things you and others care about. We can often find it easier to complete things if we do them when our energy is at its highest for that task. As busy researchers, it can often be difficult to find the time, energy and environment to write and develop a writing habit despite many of the outputs being written ones. Finding and sticking to your “writing time” may be a resilience builder for you.