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though still alert—you’d like to take a break, and those when
you feel you really need a break. Then take advantage of the
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patterns you find by scheduling your activities according to the
following recommendations, whenever possible:
When you’re fully alert, schedule:
• Large, involved projects
• Critical, pressing matters
• Important reading
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• Material that’s potentially boring
• Meeting with your boss
• Meetings and phone calls where you mostly listen
• Anything that requires you to be more passive than active
• Anything that should not be interrupted
When you’re alert, schedule:

• Mathematically based activities (e.g., preparing a financial
report)
• Meetings with colleagues or those you supervise
• Dining
• Moderately interesting reading
• Creative work
• Physical activity that requires concentration (e.g., driving)
• Anything that would not suffer from brief, important inter-
ruptions
• Most writing, typing, computer work

When you’re sluggish, schedule:
• Short-duration projects
• A variety of brief tasks
• Activity that requires physical movement where concen-
tration is not critical (e.g., walking to another floor or out
to a store)
• Calls or meetings with people you like
• Interactive computer programs (e.g., a CD-ROM for
training.)
• Things you find extremely interesting

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