I ditched my 6am gym routine for lunch walks and my best writing week in 2 years proves the hustle crowd wrong | Beat Burnout - Freelance Forum - The Community for Independent Professionals
I ditched my 6am gym routine for lunch walks and my best writing week in 2 years proves the hustle crowd wrong
For 3 years I dragged myself up at 5:45am to lift before opening my laptop in my Chicago apartment, because every productivity guru swore morning workouts were the key to a sharp mind. Last March I hit a wall and swapped it for a 20 minute walk around the block after lunch instead. My afternoon crashes stopped by week 2 and I shipped 4 big projects that month without the usual 9pm panic edits. Turns out I was burning my best thinking hours on squats and then dragging through the work that actually pays me. Nobody talks about the fact that some of us are useless at sunrise, so what time of day do you actually get your sharpest thinking done?