Time Management Strategies for Night Shift Workers
Time management for night workers is about energy, not just hours. Halley Nagy, LMFT, outlines how to plan your days around recovery, work demands, and personal time without burning out.
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Sign UpTime management for night workers is about energy, not just hours. Halley Nagy, LMFT, outlines how to plan your days around recovery, work demands, and personal time without burning out.
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with that comes time management um so
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similar to the last slide we're talking
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about mapping things out and seeing how
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or where they can fit so for time
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management I want to map out my wake
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periods so knowing the hours when you
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would like to be asleep so your ideal
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sleep routine maybe right now it's not
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where I want it to be but I know I need
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to get six to eight hours of sleep that
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time's blocked off and then knowing when
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you'll be awake so you know what time
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you have available um if I'm sleeping
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from 8:00 am to 300 p.m then I know that
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I have 3 to 7 or whatever to get all of
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my other things done what can I
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reasonably and realistically do in this
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time frame so again maybe you pull from
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your list on the previous slide and you
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map out when you could do that if I need
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to pick up soand so from school perfect
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i could do that at 3:30 and then I could
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come home and make dinner and then after
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dinner I might exercise you know you fit
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in what your priorities are and what
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works for you and then adjust as needed
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so the schedule that you're originally
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making doesn't have to be fixed um
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things can shift around and move you're
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just making a schedule that works for
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now based on the lists you've identified
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things you do might change your you know
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schedule might change um what you can
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reasonably fit in or how often you're
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sleeping you know all of those things
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might change and so be flexible in your
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list it does not have to be rigid it can
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change as you need it to change