Protect Your First 90-Minutes

by | Oct 23, 2025

Multiple researchers have suggested that humans tend to do their best and most meaningful work in 90-minute spurts.

Some believe this timeframe is connected to an ultradian rhythm that naturally plays out while you’re sleeping.

If you can align yourself to the same rhythm during the day (so the theory goes), you can be more productive.

But most people can’t structure their whole day in 90-minute time blocks considering the responsibilities they have to respond to the schedules and needs of others.

Putting utopia aside, would it be feasible to capture one of these time blocks and reserve it for your most important work?

And not just any time block, but what if you claimed the first 90-minutes of the workday as your rightful possession?

No reading email.  No responding to texts. No social media.  No agent interruptions.

Just you proactively working on the most meaningful, important, and non-urgent things in your business for the first 90-minutes.

If you’re a leader, insist those on your team do the same thing.

This will multiply your productivity gains.

And then you can all agree that after the first 90-minutes, the whirlwind can begin!

 

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The Attrition Variables

The Attrition Variables

While these attrition constants still have the greatest influence, there are some emerging attrition variables worth noting. People also tend to leave companies when: They feel like they’re not doing as well as others in their peer group outside the company. They feel like they’re not as far along as they should be at a certain point in life.

The Attrition Constants

The Attrition Constants

If you’re not focusing most of your retention effort on these issues, you’ll miss the mark. If you’re not focusing most of your recruiting effort on exploiting these weaknesses among your competitors, you’re missing the best opportunities.

The Persistence Mindset

The Persistence Mindset

A leader equipped with this mindset can have a profound effect on the life and career of each individual they engage. It works because an agent is getting a real-time glimpse of what it would be like to work on your team. But it only becomes believable when it is persistently applied over time.