Run a Personal Energy Audit.
Before Burnout Runs It for You.
A field-tested framework for diagnosing where your energy actually goes, and redesigning it before burnout makes the decision for you.
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Definition
What is a personal energy audit?
A personal energy audit measures where your cognitive capacity actually goes across a working week: which activities create energy and which drain it. It is diagnostic, not prescriptive. You measure the week you actually run before you redesign it.
This framework sorts that week into four categories (Deep Work, Collaboration, Administration and Recovery), compares the split with target ratios, and turns the gap into a 90-day redesign plan.
Burnout is not a personal failure. It’s the predictable output of a system that creates less energy than it consumes.
71%
of the C-suite
would seriously consider leaving for a company that would support their well-being (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 finally audited my own calendar, easily half my week was going to meetings about the work. Two structural changes fixed the workday first, and the energy that came back wrote the book.”
What’s inside the framework preview
Why It Matters
The systems-failure reframe of burnout, with data from Deloitte, DDI, and 2024 leadership research.
- 71% of the C-suite would seriously consider leaving for a company that would support their well-being (Deloitte, 2024)
- More than half of leaders feel used up at the end of the day (DDI, 2025)
- 70% of C-level executives seriously considered quitting for well-being (Deloitte 2024)
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
From the Trenches
A first-person case study: the author's own calendar audit, and what two structural changes did to the workday.
- Easily half the week going to meetings, email, and meetings about the work
- Two structural changes and a few protected hours
- The workday changed first
- The recovered energy is what wrote the book
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