Meeting Fatigue & Calendar Recovery

My calendar is back-to-back meetings and it's destroying my energy and productivity.

Meetings per day: [NUMBER]
Meetings per week: [NUMBER]

Percentage I actually need to attend: [ESTIMATE]
My role: [INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTOR / MANAGER / SENIOR LEADER]

Provide:
1. **Meeting Audit**: Framework to categorise every recurring meeting (essential / optional / eliminate)
2. **Decline Scripts**: Professional ways to say no to meetings without offending anyone
3. **Meeting-Free Blocks**: How to protect 2-3 focus blocks per week and defend them
4. **Async Alternatives**: Which meeting types can be replaced by email, Slack, or Loom
5. **Meeting Shortening**: How to propose cutting meetings from 60 to 25 minutes
6. **Energy Management**: How to schedule meetings around your energy peaks
7. **Buffer Time**: How to build recovery time between meetings
8. **Standing Meetings**: Which meetings benefit from standing (shorter and more focused)
9. **Meeting Hygiene Rules**: Agenda, time limit, and "no meeting could have been an email" check
10. **Manager Conversation**: How to raise meeting overload with your boss

My calendar is back-to-back meetings and it's destroying my energy and productivity.

Meetings per day: [NUMBER]
Meetings per week: [NUMBER]
Percentage I actually need to attend: [ESTIMATE]
My role: [INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTOR / MANAGER / SENIOR LEADER]

Provide:
1. **Meeting Audit**: Framework to categorise every recurring meeting (essential / optional / eliminate)
2. **Decline Scripts**: Professional ways to say no to meetings without offending anyone
3. **Meeting-Free Blocks**: How to protect 2-3 focus blocks per week and defend them
4. **Async Alternatives**: Which meeting types can be replaced by email, Slack, or Loom
5. **Meeting Shortening**: How to propose cutting meetings from 60 to 25 minutes
6. **Energy Management**: How to schedule meetings around your energy peaks
7. **Buffer Time**: How to build recovery time between meetings
8. **Standing Meetings**: Which meetings benefit from standing (shorter and more focused)
9. **Meeting Hygiene Rules**: Agenda, time limit, and "no meeting could have been an email" check
10. **Manager Conversation**: How to raise meeting overload with your boss