Josep, glad to hear some of this stuff has been helpful for you. I completely empathize regarding how sometimes we have to buckle down and just work-work-work…but we have to make sure that most of the time we’re able to have a sembalnce of balance and respect the limits our bodies try to place on ourselves. Some of that is for productivity, and some of it is even just for the sake of staying sane.

Interesting ideas. In the last weeks I’m overworking and even skipping meals, my schedule is totally crazy and sometimes I feel I go completely on my own.

I thought about all you’re talking about and reached the conclusion that I’m more productive in the mornings too, so I try to avoid all things that break my concentration, like email, twitter and to a lesser extend the phone.

I was getting the job done because of motivation, responsibility or whatever you want to call it, but I felt, as you say, I was the slave. I am very confident that things are going to get better and I will be the master again :)

I’ve reached much of the same conclusion some years ago, notably to focus my creative work in the morning, and the drudgery right after lunch when I’m less alert.

Of course this may vary person to person (how I envy the type that can wake up at 5AM at peak mental power!)… In fact I believe there’s a book out there called “Never do email in the morning”, and I’ve always agreed with the idea but not with the hard coding of the time of day.