How to Use Your Menstrual Cycle to Plan Your Life
Limitless Life
Melyssa Griffin
4.9 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2020
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Today on Limitless Life™, I sat down with the amazing Kate Northrup to talk about how doing less actually produces better work. Kate is an entrepreneur, best-selling author, and mom, and recently wrote a book called "Do Less: A Revolutionary Approach to Time and Energy Management for Ambitious Women". This episode we get deep into talking about women's menstrual cycles, and how they can help dictate when you should be doing certain tasks in your business. We also talk about how to feel like you're not being enough when doing less. This is something that I can deeply relate to. Ever since I was 15, I was one of the biggest "doers" you've ever met. An emotion I didn't want to feel? I started a club at school. A fear of being unworthy? I started a company. Sound familiar?
Of course, none of this was conscious. I convinced myself that this was just who I was -- a high achiever. A leader. It took over a decade to finally realize that I was using achievement to mask the fear that always simmered just below the surface "maybe all this doing is just covering up my fear of truly being".
In this episode, Kate will help you bust through the fears of what happens when you truly rest, and how to reframe previous views on busyness and productivity. I am so excited to hear your takeaways from Kate!
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Melissa Griffin and while I was in my 20s, I turned a hobby blog into a multi-million |
| 0:05.8 | dollar company. Now, what I've discovered after working with thousands of entrepreneurs is that |
| 0:10.6 | the greatest thing standing in the way of success isn't another business tactic or marketing |
| 0:16.3 | strategy. It's your own mindset. Now, I believe that you're meant for more than just the status quo. |
| 0:23.2 | So on this show, you'll feel like you're sitting down with a friend who's here to help you transform your fears and roadblocks into a truly limitless version of yourself. |
| 0:33.9 | It's time to upgrade your life and business from the inside out. |
| 0:38.7 | Let's do this. |
| 0:48.3 | I'm excited to chat with you. Yeah. Learn more about you and just dig into this concept of doing less and so many of the other things you talk about around doing less and productivity |
| 0:53.1 | and our cycles |
| 0:54.6 | and our natural like connection with nature and how, yeah, how we can near that in ourselves. |
| 1:01.0 | So I would love to know, first of all, like, what's your story with busyness, productivity? |
| 1:08.9 | Were you like the busy hustle guru in the past? |
| 1:12.6 | The busy hustle guru. |
| 1:14.5 | I would say, do you have a little of that in you? |
| 1:18.1 | I would say, yes. |
| 1:20.2 | I would say left to my own devices, I do a lot of things. |
| 1:24.9 | I'm a seven on the Enneagram, which is the enthusiast. And like, unless, you're |
| 1:30.3 | same? Yeah. Yeah. Unless I rain it in, I just like, I'm very excited by life. And so I'm very excited |
| 1:39.2 | by possibilities and everything feels like a great idea. And so, yeah, left to my default, I do too many things. |
| 1:51.3 | And so this work, I really, really, really teach what I need to learn. And I would say for sure, |
| 1:59.3 | like, if you asked somebody who knew me 15 years ago, they would be like, oh, yeah, like Kate was always up to a million things. But I would say for sure, like if you asked somebody who knew me 15 years ago, they would be |
| 2:01.8 | like, oh yeah, like Kate was always up to a million things. But I wouldn't say I was super |
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