Jessica worked a five day week commuting in to London from Hertfordshire. She'd get up at 6:30AM then leave for work at 7:30 but, due to traffic, only arrive there by 9:15AM. Her boss would be a bit annoyed but since she was great at her job, he let it slide. Especially since she generally stayed until at least 5:30PM where she then drove back home, arriving there sometime after 7:30PM.

After years of doing this, Jessica decided to come to me for help, and after a day, she had a solution which enabled her to save twelve hours a week. There's no way I could have predicted the solution she found, as my job is to help create awareness of personal efficiency behaviours and habits with the hope they can be changed to more attractive and capable ones. Jessica's solution was a simple logic one and only worked because she knew herself, and her manager was flexible.

What she did was to arrange to work forty hours over only four days. This meant she came in early on Monday to Thursday, thus missing the rush hour, stayed until 7PM, thus missing the rush hour home, and took Friday off. She even managed to work in an unpaid lunch gym visit as well to make sure that when she got home, she could stay home.

This may now work for everyone, but that doesn't matter, what matters is it worked for Jessica.