Peaks and troughs

The Day Reconstruction Model (DRM) measures how people spend their time and how they emotionally experience the various activities and settings of their lives, combining features of time-budget measurement and experience sampling. It looks a little like this:

PEAK - Usually in the morning and is the ideal time to do your heavy analytical work.
TROUGH - Early afternoon, here I would advise you to do adminstrative work.
RECOVERY (also known as the rebound) - Late afternoon/early evening and is the perfect time to do your insightful work.

Negativity is on the rise in the afternoon and falls during the evening. Understanding this pattern will have a very direct impact on the work you do and also when you schedule important meetings.

“We need to start thinking of breaks as a part of performance rather than a deviation from performance.”

— Daniel Pink

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Timing is a science

According to my dictionary, when you say something is perfect it means it’s as good as it could possibly be. Timing on the other hand is used to refer to the time at which something happens or is planned to happen, or the length of time that something takes. 

There is an emotional pattern to our daily lives. There is a genuine mood of positivity that peaks during the morning, drops during the afternoon, and then climbs back up in the evening. This prevailing cycle of moods happen every weekday to everyone, regardless of race or nationality. Behavioural scientists from Cornell University using the Day Reconstruction Method (DRM) and going hour by hour through people’s lives found the same pattern. 

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