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Imagine making decisions only when your brain is at its sharpest

an un-sexy way to redesign your day

Imagine making decisions only when your brain is at its sharpest.
Most of us don’t even know when that is.

Try this tomorrow:
Set three alarms on your phone: one midmorning, one midafternoon, and one toward the end of your workday.

When they go off, rate your energy from 1–10.

That’s it. Three check-ins, one day of data.

You’ll probably notice a pattern: that 2:30 crash you keep trying to “push through.” The morning window where ideas flow easily (but somehow gets swallowed by email).

When you see it, everything shifts.
You stop scheduling deep work during low-energy hours.
You stop beating yourself up for “lacking discipline.”
You start protecting your natural peaks… and coasting through your natural valleys.

Your calendar stops being reactive and starts being strategic.
Decisions happen when you’re sharp.
Creative work gets your best hours.
The boring stuff waits until your brain naturally slows down.

The clarity from this one-day experiment changes how you show up… to your work, your team, and your own life.

Three alarms. Three minutes.
That’s all it takes to design your day around the brain you actually have.

Cheers,
Marissa

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