Hi

I used to think that the clocks changing (as they're about to do in the UK) meant an extra hour in bed (or is it the other way?) That was about it. I think, having grown up in the rural dairy-farming south-west of the UK, I had picked up the idea that it had something to do with milking not having to happen so early in the morning but I was totally wrong about that. We may live our lives by clock or social time. Cows, on the other hand are fixed, sensibly so, to sun-time.

Daylight Savings Time (BST) actually means the dairy farmer has to get up an hour earlier. Incidentally, the same is true of our bodies – that is, our energy rhythms are also fixed to sun-time. We're about to enter the time of the year when social time and sun time are more closely aligned. If you're a mid to late chronotype – this should be the easier half of the year to negotiate. It is for me. I feel less mildly tired as my wakeup time of 7am is closer to sun-time 7am, not sun-time 6am.

Our individual chronotype does govern our sleep time preferences but since doing the research into Day Crafting (and body-clocks) I've realised how many other aspects of our daily energy functions are also driven by chronotype including digestion, health, stress levels and cognition. See the winter (counterintuitively) as the sun-time half of the year.

NOvember – one last invite

There is still time to join the Day Crafting NOvember project. I won't be covering the content in the main newsletter so if you'd like to re-craft your actions and behaviours around capacity, time and energy, you'll need to side-step into the NOvember sub-group. It starts next week on the 1st.

And please circulate the invitation to any of your friends who can't say NO: https://daycrafting.com/november

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On a side note – I think there is a conundrum regarding NOvember and the inevitable work there is to do around any self-development process. The very people who by strong affiliative motivations say yes too often and get overly busy have less of the motivational elements needed to work on balancing the problem in the first place – they see the problem but aren't motivated to solve it ... until they have to.

Yours,

Bruce

PS: Today is National Black Cat day and National American Beer Day. Take your pick. I'm allergic to cats so I'm going for the beer.

PPS: Anyone using their extra hour for something other than a lie in?