Comments on: What the most successful people do…after dinner?

By: Laura

Laura — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:41:39 +0000

In reply to Stephanie Niko. @Stephanie: The key is really to know yourself and your energy levels. Some people are just not morning people. If you're in the middle, you can probably push yourself more toward morning productivity, but if you're a true night owl you probably can't. But as you've noticed, the world is just not set up to honor evening productivity. People have events, or family obligations or what have you. The fact that successful people get up early may not be cause-effect in quite the order we think.

By: Stephanie Niko

Stephanie Niko — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 20:29:01 +0000

I’ve so often heard that successful people get up early, but I’ve found that even if I get up an hour earlier I just end up puttering around. It takes me longer to put on my makeup, and I leave my apartment without having accomplished anything out of the ordinary. In contrast, even when I’m tired at night I can be quite productive. The problem with evening is I often have classes or networking events or social events. Still, I can accomplish a lot more in an hour at night than I can in an hour in the morning.

By: Denise R

Denise R — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 23:16:01 +0000

I break it up. I do things like exercising/reading in the morning, before the kids are up, then I work in the afternoon while they are doing HW. After that we are all free together.

By: Susan

Susan — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 20:59:25 +0000

I often find myself working in the evenings, but if I’m on my computer too late at night, it interferes with my ability to fall asleep, which has been a real problem for me. Perhaps when your kids get a bit older and start doing homework or going to friends’ houses in the evenings, you’ll regain some of those hours!

By: Genna G

Genna G — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 20:28:26 +0000

I used to be a night person, but years of having to get up early for school and now for work has changed we to a morning person. I love my quiet morning for doing all kinds of things that are important to me as well as for planning my day.

By: Twin Mom

Twin Mom — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 19:43:08 +0000

Perhaps you’ll be a morning/evening person. I work between ~10 PM and midnight, which lets me get up with my kids at 7:30 AM. Of course, I don’t work the same number of hours as you do.