TechAlchemy Energy Audit Dashboard
A guide that helps you see when your real energy, your calendar, and your tools are fighting each other. This walks you through the process step by step and gives you a clean summary at the end.
How this works
Work through each step in order using your real week, not your fantasy week.
That is the quick version. You’ll find the fuller breakdown in Step 3: Traffic.
Step 1: Map your energy windows
This comes first because the rest of the audit gets wobbly if your calendar is built around fake energy. Fill this out based on a normal day, not your best day and definitely not your fantasy day.
Step 2: Inventory your weekly tasks
List what you actually do in a normal week. Ignore how long each thing takes for now. We care more about what each task asks from your brain.
Step 3: Sort the traffic lights
This is where you stop treating all work like it belongs in the same bucket. Not everything should sit in your best hours, and not everything needs the full power of your brain.
What it means: Full brainpower required.
Examples: Writing original content, strategy, solving tricky problems, learning new tech.
Best use: Protect this time. Interruptions are expensive.
What it means: Needs attention, but not your sharpest brain.
Examples: Editing, organizing, light design, setting up a workflow.
Best use: Good for the middle of the day when the spark has softened a bit.
What it means: Maintenance mode.
Examples: Formatting, archiving, resizing, repetitive cleanup.
Best use: Perfect for slumpy or foggy parts of the day.
Important note: if a task feels Red only because the tool is confusing, glitchy, overbuilt, or mildly evil, flag it. That is a workflow problem, not a personal failing.
Step 4: Reality check your calendar
Compare your traffic-light tasks with your real energy windows. You are looking for mismatches. The goal is not to engineer the perfect week. The goal is to make one or two better swaps.
The fix: move Red work into your strongest energy window and hoard Green work for the hours when you’re running on fumes. Even one swap can make the week feel less cursed.
Step 5: Find the bottlenecks
This is the TechAlchemy part. We’re looking for tasks that should be easier than they are because the app, setup, or process is making a simple thing weirdly hard.
Step 6: Build the energy profile
This is the keepable part. It gives the you a useful snapshot of how they you best, what is draining you, and what you want to bring into TechAlchemy.