Carolina de Arriba

And that shift alone will change your days.

So here's my challenge for you.

Pick one of these four things, just one, master it, and then add another one.

Now, I want to talk about and switch to the next topic of this toolkit, which is calendars.

Because this is where energy management becomes visible.

If you say energy matters, but your calendar doesn't reflect that, nothing changes.

So here are my calendar rules, the ones that I live by and I don't break.

Rule number one, protect your peak energy hours.

For me, that is between 8 a.m.

and 12 p.m.

That's when I'm the sharpest, when I think the clearest, when I'm

at my best to make decisions.

So here's where I try to schedule deep work, strategic thinking, important decisions, hard conversations,

I don't waste those hours on emails.

I don't fill them with meetings unless it's necessary.

Now, I work on a global company, you might too, and mornings typically are heavy in meetings with people from other parts of the world.

And that is totally okay.

My workaround with that, because that was my excuse and I'm thinking it might be yours as you're listening to me,

is I block one hour between my peak hours, between 8 and 12, one hour that I call big rocks.

That hour is for me to work on all the things that I mentioned, deep work, strategic thinking, important decisions, or having hard conversations.