Planning
Finding your bright hours
Two people with the same number of free hours can have very different weeks, depending on when those hours fall. Before choosing side work, it's worth knowing which of your hours are bright and which are dim.
Track one week of energy
For seven days, set three reminders: mid-morning, early evening and late evening. Each time, write down a number from one to five for how clear-headed you feel. Don't plan anything around it yet. Just collect the numbers.
Lay it over your free time
Now mark the hours that were genuinely free: not working, commuting or with family. Where a free hour meets a four or five, that's a bright hour. Where it meets a one or two, it's dim.
Match work to light
- Bright hours: client writing, live lessons, design drafts, anything where mistakes are expensive.
- Half light: revisions, planning, preparing materials.
- Dim hours: replies, packing, data entry, updating your records.
Protect the bright ones
Bright hours are rare and easy to lose to late nights and phone scrolling. If your best hour is early morning, the evening before decides whether you get it.
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