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How to ThinkIn the Age of AI

Energy Auditing

Informal Practice

A self-monitoring practice that tracks which activities, people, and contexts increase or deplete your energy, informing sustainable life design.

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Living in alignment with values creates energy

Audit Your Week's Energy Alignment in Google Sheets

Misalignment between values and action drains energy

Map Your Energy Drains in Google Sheets

Energy boundaries

Track and Plot Your Weekly Energy Audit in Google Sheets

Information boundaries

Track Your Information Diet in Google Sheets

The commitment budget

Audit Your Commitment Budget in Google Sheets

The sunk cost trap in commitments

Audit a Sunk Cost Commitment in Google Sheets

Renewing commitments deliberately

Audit Your Commitments in Google Sheets

The commitment review

Conduct a Complete Commitment Audit in Google Sheets

Urgent is not important

Audit Your Last 10 Actions in Google Sheets

Priority traps

Map Your Priority Traps in a Five-Day Audit Using Google Sheets

Energy is a more fundamental resource than time

Track Your Daily Energy-Time Intersection in Google Sheets

Energy has multiple dimensions

Track Your Four Energy Dimensions in Notion

Energy auditing

Track Your Energy Patterns in Google Sheets

Energy follows ultradian rhythms

Track Your Ultradian Rhythm in Google Sheets

Recovery is not laziness

Track Your Recovery Break Experiment in Google Sheets

Sleep is the foundation of energy management

Track Sleep and Cognitive Performance in Google Sheets

Movement generates energy

Track a Three-Day Movement Energy Experiment in Google Sheets

Nutrition affects cognitive energy directly

Track Five Days of Meals and Mental Sharpness in Google Sheets

Social energy management

Map Your Social Energy Patterns in Google Sheets

The energy cost of context switching

Track Context Switches in a Google Sheet Energy Audit

Energy leaks

Audit and Prioritize Energy Leaks in Google Sheets

Fixing energy leaks

Audit and Triage Energy Drains in Todoist

The energy journal

Track Energy Patterns in Google Sheets

Stress is energy debt

Audit Your Stress Debt in Google Sheets

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