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Thinking out loud here about productivity. If you’re still trying to “manage your time,” you’re doing it wrong. Here’s why… Not all hours are created equal. You can have two hours blocked off on your calendar, but if you’re mentally fried, those hours are useless. You’re staring at the screen, rewriting the same sentence, and somehow ending up doom scrolling for an hour instead. Time isn’t the real constraint. Energy is. ?? Some work takes deep cognitive energy (strategy, problem-solving, spreadsheets that make you question your life choices). ???? Some work needs creative energy (writing, designing, brainstorming - stuff that doesn’t show up on command). ?? Some work is just low-energy admin sludge (emails, Slack messages, scheduling things you don’t want to do). But if you try to do deep, creative work when your energy is tanked? You’re toast. So instead of obsessing over time management, manage your energy instead. ?? Do the hard-thinking work when your brain is fresh. ?? Save emails and admin for your lowest-energy hours. ?? Give yourself space for creativity to actually happen. Time is fixed. Energy isn’t. Figure out when yours is at its best, and work with it instead of against it. Next time you’re staring at your calendar wondering why you’re not getting more done, you’ll think of me. Manage energy, not time.
This is great advice Chris. I keep a pile of boring/reactive things to do for when energy is low and save the creative/proactive items for high energy moments.
Omg, the "doomscrolling for an hour instead". . . ??
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3 周I love this! You are so right, if you do the most mentally demanding things during your peak hours, you'll not only do your best work, you may also do it faster than before. So you could end up finding efficiencies even if that wasn't your original goal. P.S. For some of us, your approach means we end up writing a blog post or finding a solution to that tricky client problem late at night. Oh, well! :)