As leaders of sleep 4-5 hours a day and successfully manage huge companies

People identify themselves as either owls or a lark. But when you manage to sleep for only 4 hours a day, these two categories do not have to have special significance. Every night in the end turns into morning, and every morning - night. And all the while you are working.

To cope with such a regime, the head and founder Viewabill Robbie Friedman (Robbie Friedman) proposes to take into account the individual rhythms of the brain. And here's how to do it.

Scatter tasks into categories

Robbie uses a system of categories.

• Work with mail and phone calls.
• Administrative work: a review of financial results and projections, preparation of contracts and discussion of texts.
• Tasks that require teamwork: meeting, group discussions, team building events, strategy sessions.
• Individual creative tasks: creating entries for a blog, search for and development of new ideas and concepts, drawing up plans for the future.
• Just what you want to do after all that work. This point is not less important than the previous ones. Turn into it anything: watching serials,
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  TED lectures or simply relaxing in peace and tranquility.

When you assign each task to a category, you have to look into two issues:

• how much time to spend on each category;
• when your brain is best to cope with every type of tasks.

Organize your own schedule

Some people can exercise only in the mornings, and at any other time. The same is the case with other types of activities.

It tells Robbie Friedman, every day he wakes up between 8:00 and 8:30 am and, like many others, can not swing until 11:00. Not to spend the time in vain, he performs tasks that do not require intensive work of the brain: parses the mail and make phone calls. On the contrary, in the afternoon he felt a surge of productivity. That's when Robbie is engaged in creative tasks. So he made up his daily routine.

8: 30-11: 00 - Work with mail and phone calls. At this time, Robbie waking up and immediately sits down at the computer to cope with low priority, but urgent. It's a few hours of work at a frenetic pace and, as he says, the worst part of his day. But this gap allows to establish order in the affairs and ensure that this day his company nothing prevents to move forward.

11: 30-14: 30 - teamwork. By this time, the staff Viewabill already drank coffee and did go about their duties. The same busy and Robbie. He comes to the office, to hold meetings, strategy sessions and the like. After he had successfully dealt with the correspondence (and we can turn off the phone), there is nothing to prevent him from devoting all their attention to these problems.

14: 30-17: 00 - administrative work. This "quiet hours", during which all the others continue to work on what was discussed in the previous time period. Robbie uses them to work with other treaties and not the most pleasant, but important task, in which every detail is important. At this time, his brain still works well enough to concentrate on these matters, but not good enough to come up with new ideas kryshesnosnye. Therefore it is well suited for administrative work.

17: 00-20: 00 - Time to light the creative or re-work with e-mail and phone calls. Nasty cope with the work, usually several hours Robbie enjoys creativity. He takes notes in a blog or write a detailed response to the Quora (from which were taken the advice), allowing your mind to wander freely and grope in the space for new ideas.

If necessary, Robbie donates this time to work with e-mail and phone calls, if it is too much.

20: 00-23: 00 - time for what you want.

23:00–??? - creative search. When the whole world is asleep, Robbie opened the second breath. According to him, that's when it come to mind most breakthrough ideas for business.

Most people can not wait when it comes time to sleep. I can not wait to get me new ideas flooding back.

Robbie Friedman

At this time, you can also reply to messages without fear of ill-advised to get a quick answer.

In the end, you go to bed pleased with himself, anticipating the next day to share your thoughts with others. Perhaps it will give you the necessary energy to compensate for the time that you take away from a dream.

Weekend. These days, Robbie kept away from the post and devote all the time a creative search, studies, are simply bring him pleasure, and sleep.

I rest a lot of sleep, let myself everything that I want... So, I pretend a normal person.

Robbie Friedman

conclusions

To use this method, do not necessarily lead the multi-million dollar company. Classify the tasks that you have to perform every day, and follow them according to your individual rhythm of activity. Perhaps, in the second half of the day you fall in afternoon anyone. It is not difficult to guess that this time should not be used to carry out serious problems.

Robbie also gives a few warnings for those who want to use his method. It organizes its work in a way that responds to some of the messages is quite slow, and some do not respond at all. Robbie also pays special attention to sports, using walking time between meetings. If you do not fit this routine, easily adapt it to your needs and occupations that are considered important.