{"id":"31b71c77-6478-4836-9944-d2d7c72bfdcc","shortId":"pk7FLa","kind":"skill","title":"energy-management","tagline":"Build an Energy Management System: drivers/drains map, energy-aligned schedule, recovery routines.","description":"# Energy Management\n\n## Scope\n\n**Covers**\n- Managing **energy (cognitive/emotional/attention)**, not just time\n- Identifying **energy drivers** and **energy drains** and redesigning your week accordingly\n- Expanding “**zone of genius**” time via delegation, elimination, automation, and clearer boundaries\n- Creating micro-recovery routines (buffers, transitions, meeting hygiene) and a low-energy-day protocol\n- Running a **2-week pilot** to validate changes and iterate\n\n**When to use**\n- “I’m exhausted / close to burnout. Help me redesign my week for energy.”\n- “Audit my calendar and help me spend more time in my zone of genius.”\n- “I want a system to track what gives me energy vs drains me after each interaction.”\n- “Create meeting norms and boundaries so I stop hemorrhaging energy.”\n\n**When NOT to use**\n- You need a time/task management system (timeboxing, capture, to-do lists) without an energy focus — use `personal-productivity` (this pack optimizes *energy*; that pack optimizes *time*)\n- You are dealing with imposter syndrome and self-doubt, not energy depletion — use `managing-imposter-syndrome`\n- You need better 1:1 meeting structures with your reports — use `running-effective-1-1s`\n- You need a delegation framework for distributing work — use `delegating-work` (this pack identifies *what* to offload; that pack covers *how* to delegate effectively)\n- You are in an acute physical/mental health crisis or need medical advice. Seek professional help and follow your company policy\n- You need HR/legal guidance (harassment, discrimination, retaliation, threats, investigations)\n- Your environment is unsafe or coercive; prioritize safety and support systems first. This skill can help document constraints and draft a negotiation plan, but it won’t “optimize” an unsafe situation\n\n## Inputs\n\n**Minimum required**\n- Your role + core responsibilities (and whether you manage people)\n- The time horizon: a **2-week pilot** + what “better” means in **4–8 weeks**\n- Current pain (2–5 concrete examples of what’s draining you) + desired outcome\n- A representative week (calendar text dump, recurring meetings list, or narrative)\n- Constraints/non-negotiables (time zones, caregiving, deadlines, on-call, travel, “can’t move” meetings)\n\n**Missing-info strategy**\n- Ask up to 5 questions from [references/INTAKE.md](references/INTAKE.md) (3–5 at a time).\n- If calendar detail is unavailable, proceed with a **7-day energy log first** and provide a conservative default-week plan with explicit assumptions.\n- Do not request secrets, credentials, or sensitive personal health details.\n\n## Outputs (deliverables)\n\nProduce an **Energy Management Operating System Pack** (Markdown in-chat; or as files if requested) in this order:\n\n1) **Context snapshot** (goal, constraints, assumptions, success definition)\n2) **Energy Drivers & Drains Map** (top drivers/drains + levers)\n3) **Calendar Energy Audit** (time buckets + “zone of genius” estimate)\n4) **Zone of Genius Expansion Plan** (stop/delegate/automate/defer list)\n5) **Energy-Aligned Default Week** (time blocks + meeting rules)\n6) **Recovery + Transition Plan** (buffers, micro-breaks, low-energy-day protocol)\n7) **2-Week Pilot + Experiment Tracker** (what changes, how we measure)\n8) **Risks / Open questions / Next steps** (always included)\n\nTemplates: [references/TEMPLATES.md](references/TEMPLATES.md)  \nExpanded guidance: [references/WORKFLOW.md](references/WORKFLOW.md)\n\n## Workflow (8 steps)\n\n### 1) Intake + objective + safety boundaries\n- **Inputs:** user context; [references/INTAKE.md](references/INTAKE.md).\n- **Actions:** Clarify the goal in 4–8 weeks (e.g., “end week with energy”, “reduce decision fatigue”, “make space for deep work”). Confirm boundaries (not medical/HR/legal). Choose scope: full OS pack vs subset.\n- **Outputs:** Context snapshot (draft) + assumptions/unknowns.\n- **Checks:** Success is measurable enough to evaluate after 4 weeks (even with qualitative measures).\n\n### 2) Capture baseline energy signals (7-day log + quick retro)\n- **Inputs:** last 1–2 weeks memory; calendar if available.\n- **Actions:** Create a lightweight energy log structure. If you have calendar data, do a quick retro: list the top 10 activities/interactions and mark “energized” vs “sapped” after each.\n- **Outputs:** Energy Log (starter) + initial “suspected drivers/drains” list.\n- **Checks:** At least 5 concrete drivers/drains are identified (not vague labels like “people”).\n\n### 3) Build the Energy Drivers & Drains Map (with levers)\n- **Inputs:** Energy Log + retro list.\n- **Actions:** Consolidate into a map: drivers, drains, triggers, and controllable levers (eliminate, delegate, redesign, time-shift, batch, buffer, prepare, recover).\n- **Outputs:** Drivers & Drains Map + “top 3 change levers” to try first.\n- **Checks:** Each top drain has at least one specific lever and a next action.\n\n### 4) Audit the calendar for “zone of genius” vs “energy tax”\n- **Inputs:** representative week calendar (or estimate).\n- **Actions:** Bucket time into: (A) Zone of genius / high leverage, (B) Necessary but neutral, (C) Energy drains, (D) Recovery/admin. Identify the bottom bucket(s) to reduce.\n- **Outputs:** Calendar Energy Audit + zone-of-genius estimate and biggest offenders (meetings, context switching, decision load).\n- **Checks:** The audit produces 3–5 candidate deletions/redesigns with owners and dates.\n\n### 5) Expand zone of genius via stop/delegate/automate/defer\n- **Inputs:** audit offenders; constraints; stakeholders.\n- **Actions:** Turn drains into an offload plan: what to stop, what to delegate, what to automate, what to defer. For delegation, specify decision rights and guardrails (don’t just “hand it off”).\n- **Outputs:** Zone of Genius Expansion Plan + 2–3 delegation briefs (as needed).\n- **Checks:** At least 2 concrete “energy taxes” are removed or redesigned in the next 2 weeks.\n\n### 6) Design an energy-aligned default week + meeting hygiene\n- **Inputs:** your energy curve (high/medium/low), constraints, offload plan.\n- **Actions:** Create a default week with time blocks aligned to energy (deep work in high-energy windows; admin in low-energy windows). Add meeting hygiene: buffers, batching, agendas/decisions, shorter defaults (25/50), async-first updates.\n- **Outputs:** Energy-Aligned Default Week + Meeting Rules.\n- **Checks:** The plan reduces fragmentation (fewer context switches) and includes buffers between high-load blocks.\n\n### 7) Add recovery + transitions (and a low-energy-day protocol)\n- **Inputs:** work patterns; remote/hybrid context.\n- **Actions:** Define micro-recovery routines (between-meeting buffer, decompression, movement, sensory breaks) and “low-energy day” rules (minimum viable day, what to postpone, how to communicate). Include optional “neurological load” aids for remote work (e.g., standing, doodling/fidgeting, walking calls) without making medical claims.\n- **Outputs:** Recovery + Transition Plan + Low-Energy-Day Protocol.\n- **Checks:** Recovery actions are scheduled (not aspirational) and do not rely on willpower alone.\n\n### 8) Run a 2-week pilot + measure + iterate\n- **Inputs:** full draft pack.\n- **Actions:** Define 2–4 experiments (time-shift, reduce meetings, add buffers, delegate, change meeting format). Decide what you’ll measure (daily energy rating, end-of-week energy, number of deep-work blocks, “drain count”). Run [references/CHECKLISTS.md](references/CHECKLISTS.md) and score with [references/RUBRIC.md](references/RUBRIC.md). Add **Risks / Open questions / Next steps**.\n- **Outputs:** Final Energy Management Operating System Pack + 2-week tracking sheet.\n- **Checks:** Experiments have clear decision rules: keep / modify / stop after 2 weeks.\n\n## Quality gate (required)\n- Run [references/CHECKLISTS.md](references/CHECKLISTS.md) and score with [references/RUBRIC.md](references/RUBRIC.md).\n- Always include: **Risks**, **Open questions**, **Next steps**.\n\n## Examples\n\n**Example 1 (meeting overload):** “I’m a product leader in back-to-back meetings and I’m exhausted. Audit my week and give me a default schedule + meeting rules + delegation plan.”  \nExpected: drivers/drains map, calendar audit, offload plan, default week, meeting hygiene rules, 2-week pilot.\n\n**Example 2 (role fit signals):** “After certain calls I feel energized, after others I feel drained. Help me build a tracking system and use it to redesign my scope.”  \nExpected: energy log + drivers/drains map, patterns, specific levers (time-shift/batch/delegate), and a 2-week experiment tracker.\n\n**Boundary example (medical crisis):** “I’m having panic attacks and can’t sleep; fix my energy.”\nResponse: do not provide medical advice; encourage professional help. Offer a minimal work-boundary plan (reduce commitments, document constraints, notify stakeholders) and a tracking template only if appropriate.\n\n## Anti-patterns\n\n1. **Coping without changing** — Adding recovery rituals (meditation, walks, breathing) without addressing the structural drains (back-to-back meetings, poor delegation, scope creep). Recovery is necessary but insufficient; the drivers/drains map must produce concrete structural changes.\n2. **”Zone of genius” fantasy** — Trying to eliminate all non-genius work immediately. Some drains are non-negotiable (compliance, hiring, stakeholder management). The expansion plan must distinguish between drains you can remove now vs. drains you must redesign or time-shift.\n3. **Calendar redesign without stakeholder buy-in** — Blocking focus time and declining meetings without communicating the change to your team and manager. Every calendar change needs a communication plan, or it will be overridden within a week.\n4. **Energy tracking without action** — Building an elaborate logging system that produces insights but no behavior changes. 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