The Tiredness Sleep Won't Fix (And What It Actually Is)
About this episode
Sarah Greener discusses the unrealistic expectations of constant productivity and the importance of recognizing seasonal cycles in work and life.
You've been demanding the same output from yourself in March as you do in July. Same pace, same targets, same standard, even when March feels like wading through mud and you can't work out why. So you tell yourself the thing you always tell yourself - just push through, be disciplined, just stay consistent and eventually you will get it together. That output you’ve been demanding is the part that won’t ever work for you. In this one, Sarah pulls apart the flat-line model of success the business world keeps selling you. The one where every week looks like last week, only slightly bigger, forever, with no dips or quieter patches and no seasons where you deliberately do less. That model was built for someone who wakes up, works, and goes to sleep. Not for a woman running a household with its own calendar (footy season, the school musical, a dad who just came through an aortic bypass), whose biology runs in cycles, whose kids' needs shift across every term and every year. You have three seasonal systems running at once. Biological, domestic, business. For you failure mode is not running one of them badly. It's overriding all three at the same time and then wondering why you feel…
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