Most of us were taught to run our lives by managing our time. This episode offers the alternative Laura has built her life around for the last five years: managing your energy instead of your time. She walks through how to tell which tasks actually feed you, how to find and protect your sharpest hours, and why the same task can cost two people completely different amounts. Then, in the second half, she opens up your Human Design chart and the single biggest thing to look at to understand how your specific energy is wired.

This episode covers:

• Why a perfectly organized schedule can still leave you running on empty
• The question to ask about a task instead of "how hard will this be"
• How to find your real peak hours, and what to stop doing during them
• Why there's no universal list of what's draining and what's energizing
• How to start working with your energy even inside a rigid job or a full house
• The one Human Design marker that tells you the most about how you're built to operate
• Why "just be consistent" is the wrong advice for certain people
• What it actually means when you can't wind down at night
• A simple week-long practice for gathering data on your own energy

Look up your own chart: If you want to follow along as Laura weaves in elements of human design, you can pull up your free chart and your Gene Keys profile to see your own blueprint. You'll need your birth date, exact birth time, and birth location. (Chart resource links below.)
Human Design Blueprint (Laura originally trained with Eric Claire Jones and loves her practical approach)

Gene Keys (useful for looking up different language for the gates in your chart)

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