Energy-management strategies

Managing energy is about aligning your most important work with your biological peaks. This approach recognizes several key principles:

• Energy naturally oscillates in roughly 90-minute cycles throughout the day
• Most people experience predictable energy peaks...

It helps you decide when to tackle a task by following the steps below:

1. Define clearly what is the task and the actions that compose it.
2. If the action takes less than two minutes, do it, although it is not an urgent or high-priority task; if not, defer it o...

Instead of watching the clock, energy management can be used instead of time management. Our positive mood is high in the morning, dips in the afternoon, and rises again in the evening. We can use this information to our advantage and plan for our high-priority work when our mood...