Your Energy Is a System.
Audit It Before It Breaks You.
A field-tested framework for diagnosing where your energy actually goes, and redesigning it before burnout makes the decision for you.
Burnout is not a personal failure. It’s the predictable output of a system that creates less energy than it consumes.
82%
of CEOs
reported burnout-level exhaustion (Deloitte 2024)
Not because they stopped caring, but because nobody taught them to audit where their energy actually goes.
The Energy Audit framework maps your time across four categories (Deep Work, Collaboration, Administration, and Recovery) then gives you target ratios and a 90-day redesign plan. Field-tested across 30 years of operations.
Target Energy Ratios
“When I audited my own calendar, I found 68% of my week consumed by administration. Six weeks after redesigning it, the burnout symptoms cleared.”
What’s inside the framework preview
Why It Matters
The systems-failure reframe of burnout, with data from Deloitte, DDI, and 2024 leadership research.
- 82% CEO burnout exhaustion rate (Deloitte 2024)
- 60% of leaders feel used up at end of every day (DDI 2024)
- 70% of C-level executives seriously considered quitting for well-being (Deloitte 2024)
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How to Apply
The four-category audit with target ratios and a five-step implementation process.
- Deep Work: 35-40%, your highest-value cognitive output
- Collaboration: 25-30%, meaningful team interactions
- Administration: <20%, email, scheduling, status updates
- Recovery: 15-20%, the category most leaders eliminate first
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From the Trenches
A first-person case study: plant manager period, 68% admin load, 90-day redesign.
- Discovered 68% of the week consumed by administration
- 90-day calendar redesign intervention documented step by step
- Outcome: 32% Deep Work / 28% Collaboration / 25% Admin / 15% Recovery
- Burnout symptoms cleared within 6 weeks of implementation
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