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Move to Venus?
You could always move to Venus, the planet whose rotation time around itself (day length) is longer than the rotation time around the Sun (year length). More precisely, it takes 243 Earth days to complete one Venus day, but only 224 days for a year. Imagine how much you'd get done in one day!
On Jupiter though, each day is less than 10 hours. I wonder if one would work every third day, watch TV every third day and sleep every third day if we could live there? Somehow it would be useless to split 10 hours into three hours of work, three hours of spare time and four hours of sleep. But anyone who run his or her own hours could try for a while.
Wikipedia lists Uranus' day length as a negative number, probably due to its retrograd rotation. From a philosophical point of view, do you consider time to go backwards if the planet rotates the other direction? I prevent to call it right or wrong, because we only have eight or nine known objects to compare with, and it could just as well be an anomaly in our solar system how most planets rotate.