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)

Connect with Laura:
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Every so often, Laura checks in with whether the way she's showing up matches who she actually is. A few months into this show, she found two places where it didn't. The first is small and easy. The second is something she deliberately kept off this podcast from the very beginning, even though she's used it in her own life and with her clients for years. If you've ever wondered whether there's a way to understand yourself that goes deeper than a personality quiz, and how something like that could fit alongside the science of the brain, this one is for you.

This episode covers:

• Why Laura is changing the way she talks on this show, and what self-censoring was costing her
• The tool she kept off this podcast on purpose, and why she's done hiding it
• How something with mystical origins earns a place in the toolbox of a working scientist
• The difference between the part of you that you're aware of and the part that's been running underneath the whole time
• A personal example from Laura's own chart that reframed something she believed about herself for years
• Why two people can feel the exact same emotion and only one of them should claim it
• How to hold science and spirituality in the same room without either one canceling the other out
• The one thing a chart can never do for you (and why the real work still lives where it's always lived)
• What this whole show is actually here to help you build

Look up your own chart: If you want to follow along as Laura begins weaving this in, you can pull up your free Human Design 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)

Connect with Laura:
Instagram: @think.laura
Join Laura's Free Thinking Practice on Substack: ThinkLaura

During a quick drive last week, Laura witnessed more chaos in ten minutes than she'd seen in two decades in her neighborhood, and felt that familiar ping of "is this a warning?" She employed a perspective shift she's been using for the last few years, and it's fundamentally changed the way she meets her hardest days. In this episode, she makes the case for why chaos, high-stakes moments, dreaded conversations, and the days when everything converges at once are not the thing to fear. They're the thing you've been preparing for. You'll also hear a stat about one of the greatest athletes of all time that completely reframes what it actually takes to win.

This episode covers:

• Why the days you dread are the most important days you have
• The difference between the games you see coming and the games that ambush you
• What training actually prepares you for (and why training with no performance is pointless)
• A surprising truth about how often one of the greatest tennis players of all time actually lost
• What to do when you lose one of your big games (and what never to do)
• Why you can't know what you've built until something tests it

Connect with Laura:
Instagram: @think.laura
Join Laura's Free Thinking Practice on Substack: ThinkLaura