It was a long night, with my daughter waking up at 3am and not going back to sleep until after 6. It has been a while since we have had a night like this and I don't know how we survived when it was the norm - every night and worse for 8 months. I am tired today.
Being tired is a pretty good condition to work in for me, at least when it comes to manual labor kinds of tasks. Once upon a time when I did actually run, my best 30 minute distance was after I had been up all night drinking at bars. I am not sure if one is meant to workout with a hangover, but I found them effective as I didn't seem to be as affected by my head getting in the way saying "Don't do this, it hurts".
This is day two of layoff, but I do have to get some work done for my business and make sure that I can keep something ticking over there. I will hopefully have a few remote sessions coming up in a few weeks that I will try to get some of the prep done for, but I am also looking after 
There is plenty of mindless that needs to be taken care of as well, but that is dirty, dusty and quite dangerous (for a three year old) work, so will have to wait until my wife finishes up for the day. I am sure I will be just as tired then also.
In my #AskHive post, one of the hurdles to having enough time for someone was the commute time to work. Time is a funny thing as having it doesn't necessarily mean it is available at the right time - if that makes sense.
For me at least, an hour isn't an hour if looking at it from an effectiveness perspective, for example, I am more creative in the evenings, which is when I normally do most of my writing. But even this, it depends on what I am writing. My commute to and from work is generally in a time frame that I wouldn't effectively write, so I don't see that as time away from my writing - but it can be used for other things. For me, I use commute time to either do thinking work or, listen to podcasts that inspire thinking or, deepen and broaden my knowledge in my interest areas.
I am guessing I am not alone in having optimal and sub-optimal times of the day for various tasks and it is likely ingrained into our very DNA in some form or another. We are not nocturnal by nature (according to our eyesight), so it is unlikely that we are going to be as physically capable at those times.
However, at night we do have the time and space to think well and perhaps tell stories by firelight. Maybe it is at these times that we are creative as it gives us the opportunity to think about the future, to imagine tomorrow and perhaps share what we discover with others. Maybe night time is when we are more collaborative too.
I wonder how this affects the "traditional" working hours that we have engineered through factory life, then replicated through schools to support the development of employees to fit factory life. With the changes recently with many going from office to home for their working environment and the challenges associated with things like having kids at home, I am sure that there are is a lot of bleed happening, work hours shifting from the norm. While this is going to disrupt some people, perhaps having freedom of working hours will create a more optimal environment for creativity and collaboration.
While most of us seem to leave this up to chance in most areas of our life, at least spending some time thinking about the conditions of success gives us the opportunity to design them for ourselves, or at least affect them. Of course, thinking isn't enough, we also have to pay attention to our personal processes and workout, what works for us as individuals. However it is good to note, conditions will never be perfect, so being able to operate effectively in sub-optimal conditions is a skill that is very much worth developing.
I am too tired to do this, I have no time, the time isn't right, I am not in the mood and a million other things get in our way daily, slow our progress toward where we want to be and generally, stop us from investigating our own processes along the path. Outcomes are important, but without good process, are highly unlikely to be accomplished.
Just because there is a wall in the way of what you want to do at the moment, it doesn't mean that something else can't be done that supports you, improves you - helps you be prepared for when the wall is removed. Preparation for success is a requirement, unpreparedness leaves it all up to luck.
Feeling lucky?
Taraz
[ Gen1: Hive ]
