Today's Good Life Project Rift is entitled How to Find Your Peak Creation Windows.

So damned if this stuff doesn't work.

I've been studying the relationship between natural attention and cognition cycles, creativity

and productivity for years now.

I know the data, but being the classic cobbler's kid never really took the time to pay serious

attention to my own organic attention and cognition, meaning thinking cycles, and then

shift my working efforts to leverage these rhythms rather than war against them.

And that's been a big honking mistake.

Coming home from a whole bunch of travels, I really led to a lot of rethinking because

that tends to jar my schedule and I need to recommit to doing things right.

So I decided to really spend a few months completely retooling my own life optimization

and work and creation process through a series of experiments.

One of the first ones was paying attention to what times of day I'm most organically

creative and productive.

Identifying when kickass stuff literally cascades at me and also when I can't drum up

a half decent thought or sentence or line or image to save my life.

And a few days I pretty much verified what I intuitively knew but didn't always do.

Mornings or peak creation times for me and actually the research shows for many people.

Three to five ish not so much and I have an evening creation cycle that could potentially

be insanely productive, except that it completely conflicts with my desire to be present with

my family.

So I picked up on this when I was working on my last book and I started to structure

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