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Productivity vs. Procrastination
Part Three of Three

by Kevin Hogan

Picking up right where we left off with last week's article....

Let's begin our look at the entrepreneur (that includes salespeople) and his or her time-scheduling...their prioritization for optimization.

It is not just the basis of good work-flow, but it will also be the way to get this business from small to medium and then to large, if you like. This will happen as you get your time priorities right.

a) Your first priority is sufficient sleep.

But that's fine, as long as sleep matters.

Most adults need, and I mean need, 7 hours of sleep each night.

I'm not going to stay on this forever, but sleep is crucial to creativity, productivity, clear thinking and good decision making.

You can only go so long with a screwed up sleep schedule before your work suffers.

I generally don't sleep but a max of six hours each night, but I often can get a nap in half-way through my day where I can get some REM sleep.

And it does matter.

Even for people who are getting seven hours each night, a 15-minute break every ninety minutes or so can be a good idea.

How do you know when to break?

You break when you have read the same paragraph five times and you don't remember what it said in any of them.

Your brain is full, memory loaded and you are in need of a memory dump into your pillow, rebooting the system and coming back with nothing in your cache.

(I think we nailed that metaphor, eh?)

So, let's just say 7 hours of sleep each day or night, or whatever. But don't be running around sleep deprived for a week or your productivity will stop as if you were simply being inert again.

Simply put, everyone needs sleep but yes, you can have the occasional skipping of 2-3 hours of your sleep but if you turn that into a habit, your lack of sleep will eventually catch up with you and you will find that you no longer are operating at your optimal performance. And no matter how much harder you work, there is a cap to the quality of your work performance.

With this said, I am not enforcing the doctor’s prescription of 8 hours of sleep daily with no interruptions and variation of sleeping patterns, rather, it is about knowing what your sleep patterns are.

Some people need that solid 8 hours of sleep before they can perform optimally in work the next day, whereas for others, they can do the same with just 6 hours of sleep. Others prefer to spread their nap time throughout the day, taking short naps now and then.

The late nights/early mornings may be due to business meetings, product completions or functions or whatever, be it personal or for your business, but you have to remember that health comes first.

For the next priority, turn the page.

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Kevin Hogan
Network 3000 Publishing
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Eagan, MN 55123
(612) 616-0732

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