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Manage Your Energy, Not Your Time - A Leader’s Guide to Energy Management

Level-up Engineering

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Planning for 80% of Your Time

In an ideal world every week you are operating at like 75 to 80% busyness. And that's not because you want to do less work, it's just that inevitably stuff will happen. I think the energy drain and the pressure and the stress comes when you've allocated yourself 100% and then a whole 20% of other stuff happens. So planning for 80% is pretty good. Like maybe try and keep at least a day, maybe either one day on its own or just a series of blocks in your calendar. Just blocked out as like please ask me before you book a meeting or whatever. There will always be things that you will want to work on because someone will ask you for

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