The 9-5 work schedule is created around the way society thought productivity should work. This was due to physical work such as farming. We live in a different world since then.

Does 8 hour work days work anymore?

A lot of productive countries don’t work 8 hours a day, even the most productive have the lowest work hours.

Countries like Luxembourg work only 6 hours a day which brings it to a total of 30 hours a week. Average citizen there even makes more than the average American.

This is all average, but what about the top executives that are the most productive?

Most I’ve researched work about 20 hours a week. People I know work for about ~5 hours a week

At the end of the day, it depends now hat that person is trying to achieve as one’s goals are more challenging than the others.

Some of these people want to buy out bigger businesses or buy extravagant cars. They can set what they want, it’s all about having clear priorities.

And you must be clear on yours. If you want to achieve a higher wealth, do the work you are most passionate about, while providing flexibility in your schedule.

Quality work or Quality work

So your workdays are like a velocity of work with some distractions set in. i.e. social media, texts, etc.

People’s maximum performance levels aren’t always during the work time frame and that sucks.

Working is actually attuned to how exercising works in that short, intensive performances bring more results than long drawn out ones.

Work is actually no different.

It comes down to quality activity to quality resting.

The progress comes from recovery, but the catch is you have to exert a lot of energy for the recovery to be beneficial.

By doing short work which is 1-3 hours, do we do our best. Also this must be a deep focus work with no distractions and non stop. Just like how we go about our work.

As a creative professional, most of my intensive work ideas come from downtime that I am able to efficient start and finish projects.

So why is this? Well, your mind is focused on the work while when you aren’t it wanders which happens to cause a potential reflection of thoughts.

While in an recreational environment such as driving it subconsciously remind you of past experiences and be able to connect them together in a new way.

Creativity in a nutshell is about connecting one thing to another.

So working for the work time and resting for the rest time. Not doing both at once. You’ll have more creative breakthroughs.

The first 3 hours are the most important

Ron Friedman, a psychologist found out the first 3 hours of your day are the most important for productivity.

Apparently, during our three hour window, we’re the most focused. Like we have the strongest form of concentrating right them.

It all starts with sleep. The brain is the most active and creative during the deep sleep phase. This allows your mind to wander easier and be able to even remember experiences more.

Not only in creativity but in willpower as well. It’s more so in energy levels that will give you. Amore natural push in being more productive.

As the days goes on, you lose your willpower. So pretty much fatigue is what stops us.

When your brain and energy level is attuned, that’s where the research of the first 3 hours of the day are your best.

Depending on who you ask, exercising first thing in the morning could make you ore tired and instead of energizing you. Of course this might due to the quality of sleep you get.

Not only sleep, but the things you eat as well. Donald Layman, professor of University of Illinois says that 30g of protein is important for the first 3 hours you wake up.

Protein in foods help you feel fuller because they take longer to breakdown in the digestive system.

Starting the day right right can allow you to finish it sooner.

Mornings are Important

Schedules like this can’t always be possible because we might things like kids or other dependents that are important.

While we all have our constraints, it’s important to make