- Start work at 9am

- Work for five hours till 2 (with short break for snack), only on very important stuff, no distractions/interruptions like email/chat etc. This time is for writing, designing, coding.

- After lunch, work on emails, planning, organising, less important stuff etc for 2 or 3 hours

- Finish at 6, personal stuff afterwards

As long as there are no distractions, and I get 5 hours of uninterrupted, valuable work done every morning, then I end up being very productive. Much moreso than the old 14 hour days I used to work where all activites run into each other and blur into endless drudgery.