Angela MondorClickUp Verified Consultant, ClickUp · Operations consultant & ClickUp Verified Consultant for neurodivergent entrepreneurs

Stop Planning for Your Best Days (Do This Instead) #Shorts

28 May 2026 · 2 min

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In this YouTube Short, the speakers share a practical approach to personal productivity that centers on planning around one’s fluctuating energy and capacity rather than striving for an unrealistic maximum. They advise recognizing daily mood and energy levels—using high‑energy days for big, focused work and low‑energy days for smaller, bite‑size tasks. The core recommendation is to plan for one’s average capacity: set 2–3 essential focus tasks each week and about three critical focus tasks each day, allowing all other tasks to be completed opportunistically. The dialogue also emphasizes adopting an "ebb and flow" mindset, encouraging viewers to accept and work with natural variations in motivation instead of fighting them.

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Yes. And I also think it's good to plan for your capacity. Some days you might feel really antsy and want to do a lot of things. So then you choose tasks that are like that. There's lots of different small tasks you can jump around and check them off. And then other days you might feel like really passionate about something. So you go in and hyperfocus on one big important task, right? Other days you might feel a bit tired. So then you might do some smaller things. So it's just planning around that as well and working with your capacity, not against it.
Yeah, that's awesome. I think that's the excitement in— I understand that people, they wanna try to fit into the box of what other people might call, consider normal or whatever. But I think it's, you can flip it, flip the script on yourself instead of saying, oh geez, I wish I had more energy today. Or, oh geez, I wish I could have as much capacity as I did yesterday. Instead go, you know what's really cool is that I can have days that are like this and days that are like that, and I can ebb and flow with them and just really be part of that ebb and flow experience rather than fighting against it.
Yes, and also planning for your average capacity because a lot of people like would like to have like their maximum capacity all the time and they plan for that. But actually you need to plan for your average capacity and just have a few focus things. I usually have 2-3 focus things per week that need to happen that week and then 3 focus tasks per day that need to like absolutely happen that day. And everything else, like if and when it gets done,