The Plan

If you’re a woman and you’ve struggled to find a productivity system that works for you, it’s probably not your fault. According to productivity guru Kendra Adachi, today’s leading productivity approaches likely will fail you, no matter how dedicated or motivated you are — because they’re not written for you.

Most top productivity mavens are men, Adachi says, and they speak to a default audience of men, who enjoy a level of schedule flexibility and career autonomy that many women lack. These male experts rarely acknowledge that women often must juggle their careers with unpaid domestic labor and caregiving duties, so following their advice is more likely to lead to exhaustion than meaningful change. Adachi offers an alternative that’s more suited to women’s complex and often unpredictable lives, and more likely to lead to the presence and attunement that many women crave.