When Is Your Brain Most Productive? Energy Patterns for Entrepreneurs

01/10/2025 10 min Temporada 1 Episodio 8
When Is Your Brain Most Productive? Energy Patterns for Entrepreneurs

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You've been trying to be productive during business hours instead of during your brain's actual peak hours.For years, you forced yourself to be a morning person because that's what the productivity gurus said. You'd drag yourself out of bed at 5 a.m., tackle your most important work while your brain was still booting up. Two hours later, you'd finished work that should have taken 45 minutes—and it wasn't even your best work.Meanwhile, around 2 p.m., your brain would suddenly come alive. Ideas would flow. Complex problems would become clear. But by then, your day was packed with client calls and urgent tasks. You were wasting your peak mental energy on email and admin work.Here's what scientists know that most entrepreneurs ignore: your brain operates on natural rhythms that control when you're sharp, creative, focused, or scattered. These patterns are largely genetic—you can't change them through willpower. Yet most of us schedule our days based on when we think we should be working instead of when our brains actually function best.What happens when you map your actual energy patterns instead of the ones you think you should have? Why does one simple tracking method reveal a gap most people never see? And what's the difference between how you feel emotionally versus how you perform cognitively?Your brain has been trying to tell you something.Subscribe: https://fivemilestones.kit.com/newsletter Connect on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sheilaslick/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@fivemilestones More at: https://fivemilestones.com/show/ Sponsored by: https://PodToBook.aiKeywords:energy mapping, circadian rhythms, peak productivity hours, natural work rhythms, cognitive performance, power hours, time blocking, entrepreneur productivity, working with your brain, optimal work schedule, energy audit, productivity patterns