How to plan your work week around your cycle.

1. Find your own hard days first

Start with what actually happens to you, not a textbook 28-day chart. Check in once a day for two cycles: energy, mood, sleep, and whether the day felt hard. A lot of people find their harder days land in the same few days before their period. Some find a dip around ovulation. Some notice very little. All three are useful answers.

2. Look two weeks ahead, not just at today

Most of the damage happens when a big moment lands on a likely hard day and you only notice the night before. Once a week, put your likely hard days next to your calendar for the next fourteen days and look for clashes: a pitch, a performance review, a long workshop, a heavy travel day.

3. Move what can move, prepare for what cannot

• Do the preparation earlier. Write the deck or the key points on a better day, so the hard day is delivery, not creation.
• Spread the talking. If three long calls sit back to back, see if one can shift a day or become an email.
• Keep the evening after a big meeting quiet. Fewer plans, an earlier night.
• Leave a small buffer. Fifteen minutes between meetings on a hard day goes further than you think.

You do not need to explain any of this to anyone. A focus block called "Prep" says nothing about your cycle.

4. Use your good weeks on purpose

Planning around your cycle is not only about protecting bad days. Many people have stretches where talking, pitching and starting new things feel easier. That is a good time for the difficult conversation, the networking coffee, the new project, or the dinner with friends you keep postponing.

How Maeve does it

Maeve reads your calendar (Google or Apple) and puts your likely hard days next to the meetings you already have, two weeks ahead. It suggests one work move and one life move a day, named after your real meetings, and you add the ones you like. It never edits, moves or deletes a meeting, and it does not use AI: suggestions come from rules that run on your phone.

Bodies vary. Treat any forecast as a starting point and let your own check-ins correct it.