Why Working Harder Is
Making You Less Productive
You know that feeling when you're sitting at your desk at 3 PM and your brain feels like it's swimming through peanut butter?
You've got work to do. Important stuff. But every decision takes forever. You're technically "working" but nothing's actually happening.
So what do you do?
Same thing I used to do. Same thing most professionals do.
You grab another coffee. Tell yourself to "power through." Maybe you'll stay up late to make up for the lost time. Or wake up extra early tomorrow to get ahead.
You're working harder. Longer hours. More caffeine. Less sleep.
But here's what's really messing with your head...
You're actually getting LESS done than you were six months ago.
And because you're smart, you know something needs to change.
So you do what every productivity-obsessed professional does. You go looking for a better system.
Maybe it's time blocking this time. Or that new app everyone's talking about. Maybe you need a morning routine like that entrepreneur who wakes up at 4:30 AM.
You spend your weekend setting it all up. Color-coded calendars. Perfect workspace. The whole thing.
Monday comes. You start strong.
By Wednesday? You're behind again.
By Friday? You've abandoned the new system and you're back to surviving on willpower and caffeine.
But here's the thing that's really frustrating...
You're not lazy. You're not uncommitted. You're actually trying REALLY hard.
You're just fighting a battle you can't win.
Because what
if I told you THAT the productivity industry has
been lying to
you?
Not on purpose. But lying all the same.
Every productivity system treats your body like it's optional. Like you should be able to focus at 2 PM the same way you focus at 10 AM. Like your energy levels don't matter. Like sleep is just something that gets in the way of getting stuff done.
But your body isn't optional.
It's not a machine you can push indefinitely. It's not supposed to work the same way at all hours of the day.
Your body has rhythms. Patterns. Natural cycles of when you're sharp and when you need to rest.
And every time you ignore those signals? Every time you force focus when your brain wants to rest? Every time you skip breaks to "be more productive"?
You're not optimizing your productivity.
You're destroying it.
But this is where it gets tricky for you, right?
Because admitting you need to work WITH your body instead of against it feels... weak.
You've been conditioned to think that needing sleep makes you weak.
That taking breaks means you're not focused enough.
That successful people discipline their body regardless of what it is telling them.
Look around your circle. Everyone's bragging about their all-nighters. Wearing exhaustion like a badge of honor. Competing over who got the least sleep.
And you're thinking: "If I start listening to my body, they'll think I can't handle the pressure."
So you keep pushing. Keep fighting your biology. Keep pretending you don't need what every human being needs.
But here's what nobody's telling you...
The reason it’s so hard to stop pushing - even when it’s hurting you - is because we’ve been taught to measure our worth by how much we can endure.
But if you look beyond the hustle, you’ll see something surprising...
The most elite performers in the world don't succeed by ignoring their biology.
They succeed by mastering it.
Navy SEALs don't train by pretending they don't need rest. They train by learning exactly how their body responds under pressure and how to optimize their performance when it matters most.
Professional athletes don't win by working 18-hour days. They win by understanding their natural energy cycles and timing their training for maximum impact.
Top CEOs don't succeed by grinding harder than everyone else. They succeed by protecting their peak energy hours and using them for their most important decisions.
The difference between you and them isn't willpower.
It's that they've learned to work WITH their biology instead of against it.
And you can too.
Because I'm about to show you something completely different.
How to work 5 hours less this week without falling behind.
Without dropping your standards. Without disappointing anyone.
No apps. No complex systems. No 4:30 AM wake-up calls.
Just a simple process that teaches you how to partner with your body instead of fighting it.
Because when you stop wasting energy on that internal battle? When you start working when your brain is naturally sharp and resting when it needs to recover?
Something amazing happens.
You don't just get more done. You get better work done. In less time. With energy left over for the stuff that actually matters.
Because deep down, you already know this.
You know you work better at certain times. You know some tasks feel effortless while others drain you completely. You know when you're naturally alert and when you're forcing it.
You've just been trained to ignore all of that in favor of "pushing through."
But you're not missing willpower or discipline.
You're missing the instruction manual for the most sophisticated productivity system you'll ever have access to.
Your own body.
Which is why I need you to pay attention and read until the end.
Because you're about to understand why working harder is actually making you slower. And I'm going to show you exactly how to flip that around.
Starting this week.
By the end of this, you'll know why your current approach is burning energy instead of creating results. And you'll have a clear plan to change it.
No matter how crazy your schedule is. No matter how many people are depending on you. No matter how many systems you've tried before.
Hi! I'm Chryz.
I help busy professionals cut their working hours by 5+ hours per week while getting better results. Not through time management or productivity hacks, but by teaching them how to sync their work with their body's natural systems.
I've worked with entrepreneurs pulling 60-hour weeks, service providers managing impossible deadlines, freelancers juggling way too many responsibilities. Most of them come to me completely burned out, convinced they need to work even harder to get ahead.
But I wasn't always teaching this stuff.
Three years ago, I was the person who needed to learn it.
I was working 12-hour days and barely keeping my head above water. I had tried every productivity system on the planet. I was organized, disciplined, committed.
And completely exhausted.
Until one day, I discovered something that changed everything...
And to be honest, I didn’t stumble on it by chance - it was born from hitting my own breaking point.
I wasn’t always this calm about time.
In fact, rewind a few years and I was doing everything right—on paper.
I graduated with a degree in Civil Engineering. Passed the board. Got my license.
Landed a role that people respected - as a Registered Civil Engineer. I was always the girl who over-delivered. I showed up early, stayed late, volunteered for more than I had to.
I thought that’s how dreams worked.
You earn them by outworking everyone.
Until one day, my body decided it had enough.
I had been working sick for two weeks straight. Ignored the signs. Took the meds. Powered through. Until one night, I ended up in the ER with enteric fever.
They replaced me with five people. I wish I was kidding.
That was the day I walked away from the path I had spent years building.
But life had other plans.
I landed another job—5x the pay, a car, allowances, client dinners. It looked like I “made it.” But inside, it felt hollow. I was in sales, and every day drained me. Talking to strangers? It was like lifting bricks with my throat.
I beat myself up for struggling. Thought I was just being weak. That I needed to “push through” harder.
I invested in sales training. P10,000. “Maybe I just need more skills,” I told myself.
But even after that, the anxiety didn’t go away.
And then... pandemic hit.
I got laid off. With a newborn in my arms.
That could’ve been the worst moment of my life. But it became the opening to something different.
I gave freelancing a shot. In three months, I hit 6-figures. I started teaching SMM. It worked—but it drained me. So I pivoted again to email copy. Hit 6-figures with one client.
From the outside, it looked like success.
But I still felt off.
Because every time I ignored my body’s signals—every time I treated rest like a reward instead of a requirement—everything would start falling apart again. My energy. My results. My sense of self.
It wasn’t until I fully leaned into what I teach now—body-led productivity—that I stopped fighting myself. And that shift became the foundation for everything I’m about to show you next.
I started making money without burnout. I started coaching others, not just in productivity or business, but in healing.
I’ve had mentees overcome autoimmune flare-ups, rebalance their hormones for pregnancy, and even naturally recover from clinical depression.
Why?
Because we stopped trying to overpower the body.
We started partnering with it.
And if you’ve ever felt like you’re doing everything right but still running on empty—this story isn’t about me.
It’s about what becomes possible for you when you stop ignoring the one system that’s been trying to help you all along:
Your own body.
That approach
I discovered?
I call it
Body-Led Productivity.
Here's how it works:
Instead of forcing your body to match your schedule, you design your schedule to match your body's natural patterns.
Your body already has an internal timing system that determines when you're naturally alert, creative, social, or ready to rest. Most productivity problems happen when your schedule fights against these biological rhythms.
Body-Led Productivity teaches you to read those signals and use them as your competitive advantage.
No fighting. No forcing. Just working when your body is primed for specific types of thinking.
Here's what most people get wrong about productivity...
They think it's about overriding your body's signals. Push through when you're tired. Work when you want to rest. Force focus when your brain is foggy.
But that's completely backwards.
Your body is constantly giving you information about when you'll be most effective. When your brain is sharpest. When your creativity is flowing. When you need to recharge.
Traditional productivity tells you to ignore this information.
Body-Led Productivity teaches you to use it.
There are three core principles that make this work. And once you understand them, you'll see exactly why working harder has been making you slower.
Energy Timing
Here's the first thing you need to understand: Your energy isn't random.
You have predictable patterns of when you're naturally sharp, creative, social, or tired.
These patterns repeat every single day.
Most people think energy dips are something to fight through with more coffee. But your brain actually has different modes that are optimized for different types of work.
Think about it like this: Trying to do analytical work when your brain wants to be creative is like trying to use a screwdriver as a hammer.
You can force it. You might even get the job done eventually. But it's going to take at least three times longer and the results won't be great.
But when you use the right tool at the right time? Everything clicks into place effortlessly.
When you ignore your energy patterns, you waste your peak performance hours on low-value tasks.
Then you spend your lowest energy trying to force through important work.
It's like using your sharpest focus time to answer emails and trying to write proposals when your brain is already fried.
You're working hard, but you're working backwards.
and there's science behind this.
Research from the University of Toronto tracked 500 professionals and discovered that those who matched their most demanding work to their personal energy peaks showed 65% less mental fatigue and made 40% fewer errors.
The science is clear: your brain has natural performance windows where your energy is meant for a specific type of activity, and ignoring them doesn't just waste time - it actively works against you.
I’ll teach you the exact steps to map your energy patterns inside the 5-day process
But for now, just know this: once you start noticing your energy highs and lows, you’ll realize how much easier your day could feel when you stop guessing.
Once you know your patterns, you match your most important work to your strongest energy.
I had a client, who was having these intense morning stress episodes.
Like, every single day felt like a war zone.
She'd already spent over ₱25,000 on psychology consultations and wellness programs, thinking something was wrong with her mentally.
But we discovered her struggles weren't in her head. They were in her timing.
Her type of body needed completely different morning and evening protocols than what she was forcing herself to do. She was trying to function like everyone else when her body worked totally differently.
So we threw out the generic morning routine advice and designed something around when her body was actually ready to work.
The transformation? Her morning stress episodes? Gone. Completely eliminated.
Her sleep went from being disrupted 7-8 times a week to just 1-2 times. Her energy became 60% more consistent throughout the day.
Same person. Same responsibilities. She just stopped fighting her body's energy timing and started partnering with it instead.
Your energy patterns aren't something to overcome.
They're information to use. When you align your most important work with your natural energy peaks, everything becomes easier.
now...
Does this explain why some hours feel effortless while others feel like pushing a boulder uphill?
Can you think of times when work just flowed and you couldn't understand why?
Would you rather fight your energy patterns every day or use them to your advantage?
Strategic Recovery
Second principle: Rest isn't the enemy of productivity - it's the fuel of productivity.
Most people treat breaks and downtime as interruptions to their work. But your brain actually does some of its most important processing during rest periods.
Your brain is like your phone's battery.
You can push it hard for a while, but eventually it starts slowing down, making mistakes, taking longer to process simple tasks.
You can ignore the low battery warning and keep using it, but everything will run slower and less reliably.
Or you can charge it strategically so it always operates at peak performance.
Most professionals are trying to run on 20% battery all day long. No wonder everything feels harder than it should.
When you skip rest to "save time," here's what actually happens:
Your brain starts making more mistakes. Simple decisions take forever. Creative solutions stop coming. You spend more time fixing errors than you saved by skipping the break.
Plus, you build up what scientists call "decision fatigue." By afternoon, even choosing what to eat feels overwhelming.
But when you rest strategically? Your brain processes information in the background, consolidates what you learned, and comes back stronger.
and here's the study that proves that:
There's a famous study of elite violinists. The researchers found that the top performers practiced LESS than average players - but they took more strategic breaks and got better sleep.
The elite players practiced when their brains were fresh and rested when they needed to recover. The average players just practiced longer with diminishing returns.
I see this with my clients constantly. The ones who protect their rest time consistently outperform the ones who try to power through everything.
You’ll learn different types of strategic rest inside the 5-day process...
...And how to time them for max impact. No big changes needed. Just small shifts that return big energy.
You don't need more time to rest. You need better timing. Most people rest when they're already exhausted. Strategic recovery means recharging before you hit empty.
I worked with an executive assistant who was on graveyard shift.
Graveyard shift alone is already the whole recipe for health disasters. She already knew that - and that’s why she needed me. Because she needed to survive the night shift just until she can transition to day shift.
So despite working in reverse and not sleeping at the right time, she was able to avoid major health problems for 6 months and actually perform well while handling 3 clients by incorporating a strategic rest in between her work blocks.
The timing was so crucial, that when she misses it, her next day will be a huge mess in terms of productivity, mood, and even her communication.
Rest isn't time stolen from productivity
It's an investment in productivity. When you rest strategically, you don't just work longer. You work better.
and here's my question:
Have you noticed that your best ideas often come when you're NOT actively working on a problem?
Would you rather work 10 exhausted hours or 6 energized hours?
What if the secret to working less wasn't better time management, but better energy management?
Biological Scheduling
Third principle: Your body has an optimal daily schedule that has less or nothing to do with conventional business hours.
Your internal biological clocks determine when you're naturally alert, creative, social, or ready to rest. Most productivity struggles happen when your calendar fights against these rhythms.
Imagine trying to swim upstream versus swimming with the current.
You can fight the current and eventually reach your destination, but it takes three times the energy and you'll be exhausted when you get there.
Or you can learn to read the current and use it to move faster with less effort.
Your biological timing IS the current. Most people spend their entire career swimming upstream.
When your schedule conflicts with your biology, everything becomes a struggle.
You try to do analytical work when your brain wants to be creative. You force social interactions when your energy is low. You try to rest when your body is naturally alert.
It's like trying to sleep at 2 PM or having deep conversations at 6 AM. Possible? Sure. Optimal? Not even close.
The result? You're always working against yourself instead of with yourself.
Researchers tracked knowledge workers for six months and found something incredible:
People who aligned their schedule with their biological timing were 40% more productive than those who followed conventional schedules.
The aligned workers finished the same tasks faster, with higher quality, and reported feeling more energized at the end of the day.
Inside the 5-day process, I’ll help you identify your unique body rhythm so you can finally stop following generic schedules.
Instead of trial and error, you'll get a clear plan that actually works with your body - not against it.
Once you know your pattern, you schedule your most important work during your biological prime time.
meet maffrah...
Maffrah is a busy professional managing multiple clients and family responsibilities at the same time.
She was trying to force herself to work on complex strategic projects first thing in the morning, thinking that's when she "should" be most productive.
But she kept getting overwhelmed and falling behind. She told me: "I have this tendency to get too technical and complicated."
When we mapped her biological timing, we discovered something interesting. Her brain actually needed more processing time for complex work, but she was trying to rush through it during conventional "peak hours."
We shifted her schedule so she did routine tasks when her brain was warming up, then tackled her most complex strategic work when her analytical processing was fully online.
The result? She went from feeling overwhelmed to achieving what she called "strategic thinking capacity fully activated." She maintained all her priorities while being a present and hands-on mom.
Same workload. Same responsibilities. She just stopped fighting her body’s natural timing and started working with it.
Your body has a natural schedule for peak performance.
When you honor that schedule instead of fighting it, work stops feeling like work and starts feeling like flow.
so let me ask you this:
Do you know what time of day you do your best thinking?
Have you ever noticed that the same task feels easy at one time and impossible at another?
What would change if you could design your day around when your brain works best instead of when society says you should work?
Let's zoom out for a second.
You've just discovered three principles that most professionals never learn:
Energy Timing - Your energy follows predictable patterns, and matching work to energy makes everything effortless
Strategic Recovery - Rest actually enhances productivity instead of interrupting it
Biological Scheduling - Your brain has an optimal daily schedule that can transform your effectiveness
You've gone from fighting your biology to partnering with it.
From forcing productivity to allowing it.
From working harder to working in flow with your natural design.
Can you see how this is completely different from every other productivity approach you've tried?
Do you understand now why working harder has been making you slower?
Can you imagine what your week would look like if you stopped fighting yourself and started working with yourself?
So now you understand how biological productivity works.
But if you're like most busy professionals I work with, you're probably thinking:
"This makes sense, but how do I actually implement it with real deadlines, real responsibilities, and a schedule I don't completely control?"
Because knowing what to do isn't the problem. The problem is turning it into a system that works in your actual life.
That's where most people get stuck.
They understand the principles but don't know how to apply them without disrupting everything they've built.
Which is exactly why I created something to solve that problem.
It's called "Work 5 Hours Less This Week Without Falling Behind."
It's a 5-day process that takes everything you just learned and helps you implement it step-by-step, without blowing up your current commitments.
Here's what happens:
Day 1: You'll discover your personal sleep optimization strategy - not generic advice, but the specific approach that works for YOUR schedule and YOUR sleep challenges.
Day 2: You'll identify what energizes you versus what drains you - so you can design your days around what gives you energy instead of what steals it.
Day 3: You'll uncover your natural genius zone - the type of work that feels effortless and produces your best results.
Day 4: You'll map your biological timing - creating a personalized schedule that works with your body instead of against it.
Day 5: I'll help you build your custom productivity blueprint - a simple system you can use every week to work less while accomplishing more.
This isn't theory. It's practical, light, and step-by-step implementation you can start using immediately.
Picture this:
It's Monday morning. Instead of forcing yourself into "productive mode" while you're still waking up, you start with tasks that match your natural energy level.
When your brain hits its peak performance window, you're ready for your most important work. You slide into deep focus effortlessly and make more progress in your peak 90 minutes than you usually make in 3 hours of forcing it.
When your energy naturally dips, instead of fighting it with more caffeine, you switch to routine tasks. Work that used to feel tedious now feels manageable because you're not forcing focus when your brain wants to coast.
By the end of your workday, you've completed everything on your priority list. Not because you worked harder, but because you worked when your brain was primed for each type of task.
You end the day with energy for your family - the same way you started it. Your health. Maybe even that hobby you've been missing.
In just a minute, I'll show you exactly how to get started...
But first, think about this:
Right now, you're spending massive amounts of energy fighting your own body every single day. Energy that could be used to create, to solve problems, to build something meaningful.
What becomes possible when you stop wasting that energy on internal resistance?
What projects could you complete? What goals could you achieve? What would change in your life if work felt effortless instead of exhausting?
Because what you're about to see isn't just a productivity method.
It's a way to reclaim all the energy you've been burning up in the fight against yourself.
Now, let's talk about what this actually costs versus what it costs to NOT have it.
Every week you spend fighting your body instead of working with it, you're losing time you can't get back. Energy you can't restore. Opportunities that won't come again.
If you could work 5 hours less this week while getting the same results, what would those 5 hours be worth to you?
Time with your family? Progress on something you actually care about? Simply the ability to rest without feeling guilty?
For most professionals, 5 hours represents hundreds or thousands of dollars in billing time.
But the real cost isn't just financial. It's your life.
The 5-day process costs less than what you probably spend on coffee this month. But it gives you a system you can use for the rest of your career.
Look, I'm not asking you to quit your job or convince your boss to let you work whenever you feel like it.
This is about making small, strategic adjustments that work within your current reality.
You don't need perfect conditions. You don't need a flexible schedule or understanding colleagues.
You just need to be willing to experiment with working with your body instead of against it.
And if it doesn't work for your situation? Fine. You'll know.
But what if it does?
Here's what I need you to ask yourself:
How much longer are you going to keep doing this the hard way?
You've already proven you can push through fatigue. Skip breaks. Force focus when your brain wants to rest.
You've been doing it for months, maybe years.
But has it actually made you more productive? Or just more tired? Or maybe even more sickly?
This isn't about working less because of laziness.
This is about working better because you're smart enough to use the most sophisticated productivity system ever created - your own body.
The question isn't whether you deserve to work less.
The question is whether you're ready to stop fighting yourself.
So here's what I want you to do:
Take the next step.
Click the button below and start the 5-day process today.
Don't wait until next week when things "calm down." Don't wait until you finish your current projects.
Start working with your biology now and watch how much time it creates for everything else.
You're not committing to overhauling your entire life.
You're just saying yes to 5 days of discovering a better way to work.
If it works, you'll have a system that saves you hours every week for the rest of your career.
If it doesn't, you've lost nothing except the time you would have spent being exhausted anyway.
You already know what it feels like to
work against yourself.
The 3 PM crashes. The Sunday night dread. The constant feeling that you're working hard but getting nowhere.
But you don't know yet what it feels like to work WITH yourself.
To finish your day with energy instead of exhaustion and emptiness. To wake up knowing your schedule is designed to help you succeed, not sabotage you. To move through your week with clarity, calm, and control.
That version of you is already in there.
Your body’s been waiting.
No pressure. No overhaul. Just one decision to finally stop fighting yourself.
Let’s work smarter - with your body - starting now.