• Matching Levels of Energy to the Tasks at Hand

    by Alexander Becker on July 23, 2006 | Link

    Time management is no rocket science. Do you work in accordance with your energy level at each moment? Anybody does this without even thinking about it but you can do it consciously and thus more effectively when deciding beforehand how energy-intensive the tasks are going to be and then mapping them across the day.

    In the morning, you may be calm and able to concentrate deeply, so why not shift your high-concentration tasks to the morning hours and do the easy, not peak-performance requiring jobs to the end of the workday where you can afford to work on autopilot?

    High-level planning for example, is often done best early in the morning, within a quiet hour or two.

    Levels of alertness are naturally depending on when and what you eat. Mind-taxing tasks that are due before lunch get automatically more high-quality attention than the after-lunch, digestion-influenced and impaired, heavily diverted focus, is able to provide.

    Another excellent time to function with maximum abilities is during the late evening, depending on when you go to sleep, the hours before crashing can be very productive when sensibly filled with the proper tasks.

    Monitor and lay out your personal energy map over the course of a typical workday and try to exchange the to dos according to your available mental and physical energy schedule.

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