Splitting Days: The Alternative For The Rest Of Us
- Not everyone can commit full days of deep focus work, or even manage the whole day.
- We can refer to our body clocks, energy levels and working style to create a day calendar splitting blocks of hours in a way that we have half a day, or about three to four hours of focus time, while the rest of the day can be for other activities.
- One can get into a state of flow every day and still have scheduled office hours to work on meetings, emails and other stuff.
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