How to maximize your performance and escape over-planning and under-doing. Designing systems for your biological peaks and dips.

What if the real problem isn’t your willpower, but your timing?

Today we dive into a very practical exploration of how your brain shifts across the day, and how to design a life that cooperates with those shifts instead of fighting them.  

From the morning’s high executive function to the evening’s predictable crash, we unpack why your 9 a.m. self feels like a sharp CEO while your 9 p.m. self behaves like a tired intern, and how to use that predictability to your advantage. 

We break down the predictability principle and share accessible, battle-tested tools that remove decision friction when you’re depleted. You’ll hear how to apply “system over hope” in real life. 

Then we get strategic about the high points. Guard your mornings for high-friction work like writing, strategy, complex learning, difficult conversations, when focus and clarity peak. Shift afternoons to nudge tasks like email, scheduling, and admin, so your best hours serve your most important goals. We also show why coaches wire new habits to early slots for dramatically better odds, and how to run a simple audit: identify where you’re pushing against your biology, realign tasks to your energy, and install one small system tonight to help your future self succeed. 

If you’re ready to reduce regret, increase follow-through, and build kinder systems that work even when you’re tired, this conversation is your playbook. Listen, try one tool today, and tell us: which habit are you moving to your morning slot? Subscribe, share with a friend who overplans mornings and underdoes nights, and leave a review with your biggest takeaway.  

Chapters

• 0:09 Welcome And Core Premise
• 0:40 Biology Over Willpower
• 4:31 Morning Plans, Evening Drop-Off
• 6:23 Predictably Irrational Energy Cycles
• 9:11 System Over Hope
• 11:45 Substitution Rituals That Work
• 13:45 Non-Combative Tools For Cravings
• 15:41 Protect Evenings, Leverage Mornings