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  • What Your Most Productive Time of the Day Says About You

    Different people are more productive at different times of the day. I wish we were all able to wake up, show up and work effectively at the same time. But in the meantime, here’s what your most productive time says about you?

    5 a.m – 7 a.m 

    You like to be one step ahead of everyone. You can’t wait to get on with your work. While everyone is still asleep, you’ve replied to emails and finished all your tasks for the day. For you to be able to wake up and work at this time of the morning means you always have so much energy and exuberance, Nigeria cannot get you down. 

    9 a.m – 12 p.m

    You always keep to time and lateness irritates your soul. You’re very organized and you have a to-do list that you check off as the day goes by. By the time you start work, you know exactly what you’re going to do and you hate distractions. You have goals you need to achieve and nothing can stop you. 

    1 p.m – 4 p.m

    You come alive at noon. If anyone talks to you in the morning, you can slap them. Work resumes at 9, but your prayer is that you don’t have any deadlines by that time. You tend to start slowly, but once it’s noon, you suddenly have an enormous energy supply and you can’t be stopped. You become a super happy person and everyone starts feeding off your energy. You’re warmhearted with a soft spot for people and you enjoy good conversations.

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    5 p.m – 7 p.m

    You get distracted a lot, and that’s why you’re doing the work you were supposed to do since morning, at this time. You spend a lot of time gisting with your friends and colleagues and swiping through social media apps. You like to have fun and enjoy life. You also like to be surrounded by people. 

    6 p.m – 9 p.m

    Your motto in this life is “I can’t kill myself”. Procrastination is your major problem in this life and your village people have refused to let you go. You don’t like stress and all you want to do is relax and be taken care of. But capitalism has you in a chokehold, so you just manage to do the work you have to do because inflation is kicking everyone’s butt and you need the money.

    11 p.m – 12 a.m 

    You’re the best when it comes to pop culture because you spend part of your day watching TV series and movies. You’re very much into fashion and you can never be caught unfresh. If there were an award for “Best Dressed” at the office, you’d win it. You understand that work is important, but to you, all work and no play makes John Bosco a dull boy. 

    1 a.m.4 a.m.

    You and the people that fly at night are the only ones awake and having meetings by this time. It’s only you that’ll be sending messages on slack by 2 a.m. when normal people are sleeping. You don’t like to live by rules so you create your own. You’re also a party animal: the one that friends call every time they want to turn up.  But also, you also like your quiet moments and that’s why you prefer to work at this time of the night.

    No particular time 

    Your life is based on vibes and everything and anything works for you. You don’t have any particular set of guidelines that your life follows, nor do you have strict goals. All that matters is comfort and happiness. Anytime wey body sweet you, you work.

    You’re never productive 

    You believe in enjoyment only. You don’t understand why you have to work, and you hate that your parents didn’t build generational wealth. You like the finer things in life, but you don’t want to work for them. 

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  • 7 Morning Habits Of The Least Productive People

    Everywhere I turn to; “How to be more productive”, ” The 4-hour workweek.”, “Deep work.

    Everything seems geared towards making you some form of productivity machine that does the bidding of capitalism. No one caters to people like us who aren’t interested in all of these things and just want to sleep. People just trying to get from one day to the other.

    Well, I flipped the switch and created a guide for us. Here’s how to mess up your productivity for the day.

    1) Turn off all your alarms and sleep for extra “thirty” minutes.

    Nothing beats that extra let me close my eyes small that results in you oversleeping and jumping out of bed in fear and rushing to work. Although the company is looking for reasons to sack you, don’t make 30 minutes lateness the reason they sack you. It’s fine if you are just like 29 minutes late sha.

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    2) Go on social media immediately you wake up.

    Everyone says you shouldn’t pick up your phone immediately you wake up. I reckon that you should not only pick it up, but you should also do your Good Mornings on there. Then go over to Instagram explore page and be doing God when up and down until you miss the staff bus.

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    3) Lie down on your bed and ask why you were rushing to grow up.

    See, you can’t afford therapy. So, every morning take as much time as you want as your own therapy. Ask yourself: “who send me message to grow up?”

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    4) Pick a fight with a danfo conductor.

    If the conductor doesn’t greet you when you enter his death trap, pick a fight. When people try to beg you to calm down, increase your anger and keep shouting “don’t beg me ohh.” But from a reasonable distance free from the violence of the other party.

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    5) Trek to work as a form of exercise.

    10,000 steps logged in. What is a car when God has installed in you the only car you need. Just buy water and handkerchief for this mission. Even better if you live in Lagos so you can blame the government for your decision to walk.

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    6) Set early morning meetings.

    Nothing to ruin your day like meetings. Set up a meeting to discuss something that can be resolved via email. Ask loads of questions to make it drag. Set up another meeting to clarify the things you don’t understand from the last meeting. Before you know it, a whole day with meetings and you are still left with more questions than answers.

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    7) Read this article.

    You already read this one, why not just continue by reading this one too. You’ll love it!

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    Click here to read the first episode about Odunayo, a keke rider. She shows us what it means to be a breadwinner, a chief, and a woman in a male-dominated field.


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