Design Your Ideal Day

Map your energy hour by hour for one week, rating each hour from 1 to 5 for alertness. After seven days, clear patterns show your personal peak, trough, and rebound windows.

Block your peak hours for your most demanding work, and protect them fiercely: no meetings, no email, no interruptions. Use trough hours for admin, routine email, and low-stakes decisions, and save the rebound for creative and strategic thinking.