Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

I would like to share with you a productivity rule that has been really really life changing for me.

And I learned a lot of this from my friend Kate Northrop who works specifically with a menstrual cycle, So if you're someone who has a period,

you can actually align your calendar with how you feel day-to-day. Women have a 28-day cycle.

Men have a 24-hour cycle. Our bodies and energy are different. But when it comes to

productivity I think that so often we think it's about time, right, about hours in the day, minutes in the day, how much

we can get done within certain blocks. This isn't true. Productivity is about energy, right? It's about how you're feeling, it's about what your reserves are, how much is in the tank.

And that's going to change day-to-day, right? Maybe it's based on cycle, maybe it's based on sleep, maybe it's based on how much you're drinking and eating or the quality of what you're drinking and eating

There are many factors here but I don't know about you but there are some days where I can just keep my laptop open and I feel like a machine I could go and go and go even up

until 10 p.m. I don't want to stop. I just feel like getting it done and that's wonderful. It feels like summer, it feels like harvest season. And then, some days, I swear to God having a glass of water and just putting on real clothes feels like a win. Right? One day isn't

better than the other, but just like all things in nature, right, we are animals, there are seasons, it can't always be summer.

We need to honor the different waves of energy that we experience.

That's why it's so important.

To be in tune with your body, to know what your natural rhythms are. I work with someone years ago and his life transformed just

by working on his side hustle that he was so passionate about before going to work. He worked in real estate and he was like,

gosh, if I just get up 90 minutes earlier and I power through my side hustle work,

he's like, I actually get to work and feel really great and energized.

He used to think after work he'd be energized when he just wanted to come home, I don't know, open a beer and watch television.

Working with your natural energy cycles, we all have them, is powerful.

And it means that there's, you know, the winds behind your sales, right, it's pushing you forward,

versus having you meet resistance and then think there's something wrong with you.

Think that you're lazy, that you're unmotivated, that something has gone awry. It hasn't.

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