Special time. special time is a phrase I use to describe those times of the week when you aren't particularly productive for one reason or another. special time is a great time to do the things that are most important to you. So let's have a look at the five types of special time. Golden Hour is that time of the day when you're at your absolute peak during golden hour, you can achieve masses. For me, it's right at the start of the day.

I've had a good night's sleep. I've got up, I've had a cup of tea, and I'm working. I'm achieving and I'm feeling great about it. primetime those slots in the day when you know you'll be able to work well, you save important work for those times and you schedule that work into it. Not as not as profoundly valuable as golden hour, Primetime. Usually also good times to do work safe for me.

This will be something like around 11 o'clock I've taken a break, and now I can settle down to something new. Or perhaps it's towards the end of the afternoon I'm past that after lunch slump that I know a lot of you also have. I've got a load of admin and bits and pieces out of the way I've got a bit of time. This is a form of prime time when I can schedule something important. Creative time. Some of us find there are particular times of the day when we are at our peak of creativity.

Now on creativity comes at times when our brain is a little bit turned off. So we have creative ideas, often in the margins between day and night time for some of us. It's those last hour or two of the day when a little bit of the dream time is starting to invade our brain, and we become creative for others. It's early in the morning, because a little bit of that dream time is still left in our brain. Creative time is when we don't think in linear organized ways, but new thoughts come to us. cultivate that time.

For example, if mornings are a good time for you to be creative, then make sure you've got time during the morning to let those ideas out. Often you'll find that they come out anyway perhaps during shower, perhaps when you're going for a walk. So that's creative time. Things happen in our lives. And if we don't prepare for them, if we don't think ahead, then they can overtake us and take control of our lives. So my fourth form special times what I call the next bend time, set aside between 30 minutes and maybe as long as an hour during each week, just to think through what is coming around the next bend.

For many of us, we need to take ourselves away from our normal environment. I like to go to a cafe, or if I'm working at home, to sit at the kitchen table with a blank notebook. Just think about the future and what's coming up in the next week or two. Sometimes, during next bedtime, no particular thoughts will come to you. You might jot down a few things but nothing particularly important. That doesn't negate the value of it because sometimes You'll have a realization of something that's really important, which will give you the time to plan for it and make sure that you deal with it properly.

The last type of special time is what I call focus time. Focus time comes in those gaps between other activities. But when you have nothing else to do, for example, you're going to a meeting, you'll arrive a little bit early. You find a cafe around the corner, you know, you can get to that meeting in good time. So you've got time to relax and have a cup of coffee or a cup of tea and get one thing done. Maybe it's read one article, maybe it's make some notes on something you've been thinking about, do some sketching.

Focus time is those times those little moments, sometimes the shortest five or 10 minutes when there is nothing else to do. And you can get one thing done, and you can do it very well knowing that nothing else Will impinge upon you. So there you have it, five types of special time. Use them well, and you can get a hell of a lot done.