The Best Time Of Day To Make Decisions – When Is The Best Time To Get Work Done?

I’m sure this never happens to you…

You try to learn something new right after lunch and you just can’t seem to absorb or process the new idea.

You make a sales call on Monday morning and your potential customer isn’t having anything to do with what you want them to buy.

You have a big decision to make as soon as you start your day, and you just can’t seem to wrap your head around the choice you have to make.

What is it that seems to block your ideas when you need them most?

I submit that one of the blocks to the flow of your ideas is something called CHRONOBIOLOGY.

Chronobiology is a field of science that studies how our body’s natural cycles —mental, physical and emotional — are affected by solar and lunar rhythms.

Most of us have very little knowledge about the human body’s inner clock. We know we have such a clock, yet know little of the science behind it.

New research from Europe called Chronobiology has gained importance over the past few years.

Chronobiology refers to the day-night cycle that affects the human organism when the earth rotates.

For example, the circadian rhythm — a 24-hour cycle of physiological processes that happen throughout the human body — is a vital cycle in the study of chronobiology.

If you want to go deeper into this research, you can find much more information at ChronoBiology.com. There’s also a book – “The Power of When”, by Michael Breus, known as the “Sleep Doctor”. In addition to his book, Breus has a quiz for discovering your chronotype, resources, and videos at his website ThePowerOfWhen.com.

My message here is that when you understand your body’s chronobiology – your biological clock on a day-to-day basis – you’ll be able to plan when you can be most-productive getting, taking action on, and sometimes just sitting until later on your ideas.

I’ll give you four “best times of the day for taking action on ideas” as examples of real-life applications of chronobiology.

  1. The best time for learning new things to feed your ideas is from 10:00am-2: 00 pm, and from 4:00 pm to 10:00 pm. Regardless of your time zone, if you arise early morning and go to bed at night, your brain is primed to take-in new information when it is in “acquisition mode”, and the optimal times are the times I just mentioned.
  2. The best time for “ideastorms” – getting lots of ideas – is when you’re slightly tired and easily distracted, believe it or not. This is when you’re most likely to have innovative ideas. Who would have thought?!
  3. The best time to make critical decisions is one-to-three hours after you wake up. By then you will have shaken-off sleep inertia.
  4. And for those critical sales times…people are usually in a better mood on Friday afternoons, which is good to know if you need to ask them for money.

Let me help you develop your implementation strategy so that you can achieve your greatest idea productivity, at your best times, for transforming your ideas to action.

If you like what you heard and saw here, connect with me at www.SylviaHenderson.com.

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