10X Productivity by capitalizing on your Circadian Rhythm. How? Try this method. (Free resource included)

Some of us are morning larks, some are night owls. How does this impact your productivity, and how can you test this? Here’s a tool to track your own data, and then make improvements based on it.

Dominik Nitsch
7 min readFeb 6, 2023

Morning person, evening person, afternoon person. Which one are you?

You’ll have an intuitive answer to this. I, for example, am definitely a morning person, and rather useless anytime after 5pm.

Thursdays are also by far more productive than any other day of the week.

How is this possible?

It all has to do with our circadian rhythm (and the way we design our workdays).

#1 — Circadian Rhythm Explainer

The Circadian Rhythm is our natural body cycle that lasts roughly 24 hours. It’s what gets us up in the morning, and makes us sleepy at night. Every person’s circadian rhythm is slightly different — some are morning larks, some are night owls, some are in between (like my ex-girlfriend who was/is a self-proclaimed “afternoon person”). These types are called “Chronotypes”, and…

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Dominik Nitsch

Entrepreneur | Athlete | Writer. Reflecting on life’s challenges and figuring out ways to overcome them.