Design Your Week Around Energy—Not Time

Why “more hours” never fixes exhaustion

Time management assumes energy is infinite.

It isn’t.

Energy has:

• peaks

• troughs

• limits

And most schedules ignore all three.

This week, try one change:

Schedule one important task during your natural high-energy window.

Not three tasks.
Not the whole week.

Just one.

Then protect that window from:

• meetings

• messages

• reactive work

You’re not optimizing productivity.

You’re testing alignment.

When energy and work match,
effort stops feeling like resistance.

You don’t need more time. You need better placement.

—Matt