Manage energy, not time
Productivity is not about how you manage your time, but how you manage your energy.
One hour is one hour is one hour. But how productive you are within that one hour, really comes down to the energy level you bring to the tasks within that hour.
One hour immediately after you wake up feeling fresh and alert from a good night’s sleep, is a very different one hour after a heavy lunch of too much spaghetti and meatballs.
Energy management > time management
Productivity is not about how you manage your time, but how you manage your energy.
Instead of asking “How can I better manage my time?”, ask “How can I better manage my energy levels?”
Instead of managing external events, you manage internal drivers.
Instead of scheduling meetings based on available time slots within your calendar, you time meetings to leverage on the peaks of your energy levels, and avoid having meetings during the valleys.
Instead of prioritising your to-do list based on degree of importance/urgency, arrange it based on energy levels required. Do the highest energy required task first when fresh, and the lowest later.
The calendar and the clock then becomes less of a critical artefact in productivity arsenal than your knowledge/tools for energy hacking, like:
• Sleep/Rest
• Taking breaks
• Diet
• Supplements
• Coffee
• Exercise
• Posture
• Energy rhythms
Manage energy, not time.