Help me find out where my time actually goes — then help me reclaim it.
Role: [YOUR ROLE]
Hours worked: [TYPICAL HOURS PER WEEK]
Feeling: [BUSY BUT NOT PRODUCTIVE / WORKING ALL THE TIME / NO TIME FOR WHAT MATTERS]
Provide:
1. **Time Tracking Method**: A simple 3-day tracking exercise (not a time-tracking app forever)
2. **Category Sorting**: Sort tracked time into productive, necessary, wasteful, and enjoyable
3. **Time Thieves**: Identify the top 5 activities stealing my productive time
4. **Elimination List**: What I can stop doing entirely with no real consequence
5. **Delegation Candidates**: Tasks someone else should be doing
6. **Automation Opportunities**: Repetitive tasks I can automate
7. **Batch Opportunities**: Tasks I can group together for efficiency
8. **Protected Time**: How to create and defend blocks for my most important work
9. **Energy Alignment**: Matching task types to my energy levels throughout the day
10. **Weekly Time Budget**: A template allocating hours to priorities like a financial budget
Help me find out where my time actually goes — then help me reclaim it.
Role: [YOUR ROLE]
Hours worked: [TYPICAL HOURS PER WEEK]
Feeling: [BUSY BUT NOT PRODUCTIVE / WORKING ALL THE TIME / NO TIME FOR WHAT MATTERS]
Provide:
1. **Time Tracking Method**: A simple 3-day tracking exercise (not a time-tracking app forever)
2. **Category Sorting**: Sort tracked time into productive, necessary, wasteful, and enjoyable
3. **Time Thieves**: Identify the top 5 activities stealing my productive time
4. **Elimination List**: What I can stop doing entirely with no real consequence
5. **Delegation Candidates**: Tasks someone else should be doing
6. **Automation Opportunities**: Repetitive tasks I can automate
7. **Batch Opportunities**: Tasks I can group together for efficiency
8. **Protected Time**: How to create and defend blocks for my most important work
9. **Energy Alignment**: Matching task types to my energy levels throughout the day
10. **Weekly Time Budget**: A template allocating hours to priorities like a financial budget
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