Before You Plan Better, Start Tracking Your Energy

Member Preview 💗

This week inside the Productivity Hub: try a simple experiment to help you notice your real energy, protect your best hours, and match tasks to the moment that fits them best.

Before we try to optimize the week, I want to suggest something simpler and, honestly, more revealing: track your energy first!

Last week, we talked about making tasks smaller, more actionable, and more aligned with reality. That still matters a lot. But this week I want to go one level deeper, because sometimes the problem is not only that a task feels too big.

Sometimes the task is sitting in the wrong part of the day.

And when that happens, we can end up blaming ourselves for something that is actually a mismatch.

That is what I want to explore with you this week: For one full week, I’d love to invite you to do a small experiment with me: track your energy across the day, and start noticing which kinds of tasks actually fit each moment best.

Not guess.
Not assume.
Track. Observe. Learn.

Because the truth is: not every task needs the same version of you.

Some tasks need fresh focus.
Some need longer, steadier concentration.
Some are perfect for medium-energy blocks.
Some are much better for low-focus moments when you can still sort, tidy, upload, prepare, or move things forward in a lighter way.
And some tasks, especially social and admin tasks, may not be “low energy” at all. They may simply need a different kind of energy.

That distinction matters more than we sometimes admit.

For example, one thing I’ve noticed very clearly in my own days is that I tend to work best in the morning. And I don’t mean only that my focus is higher. I mean it is often more stable and more elongated.

It’s not that I suddenly need a different timer or a longer Pomodoro in the morning. I still use the same timer. What changes is that, in that part of the day, I don’t need boosters. I don’t need even breaks. I can often stay deeply focused through a full set of 4+ blocks without needing the same interruptions or recovery as I do later.

That makes those morning hours very precious for me.

And that also means something important: if I use them for the wrong kind of work, I feel it.

For example, if I spend a strong morning block on admin, scattered replies, or too much reactive communication, I do not just “get something done.” I often feel more drained, less clear, and less well-positioned for the kind of deep work that would have fit that slot much better.

So sometimes it is not even the task. It is the wrong allocation.

And that is exactly why I do not want to underestimate this stage.

Tracking your energy may look simple. It may even look basic. But I actually think it is a high-level productivity move, because it helps you stop treating all hours as if they were equal.

They are not.

And when we ignore that, we often create friction that looks like procrastination, lack of discipline, inconsistency, or low motivation, when in reality we may just be repeatedly assigning the wrong task to the wrong kind of moment.

So this week’s invitation is simple:

This week’s experiment

For one week, try to measure your energy level through the day.