A diagnostic that replaces theories about what you should enjoy with evidence about what you actually did enjoy. The target it drives toward: **spend 75–80% of your time on things that give you energy.** ### **What I'm thinking about** 1. **It uses the past, not the future** – Print the last two weeks of calendar — the weeks that already happened, and that are representative (skip a fortnight containing an unusual trip). Add in the things that never made it onto the calendar: what you did between meetings, before work, after work. 2. **Hour by hour, two colours, no neutrals** – For each hour: *did that give me energy or drain it?* Green or red. The rule that makes it work is the absence of a middle option — **if an hour did not give you energy, it is red.** Neutral is where honesty goes to hide. 3. **The output is buckets, not a mood** – List every red, then group them into categories: recruiting calls, vendor management, a particular recurring meeting. Patterns are actionable; individual bad hours are not. 4. **Three remedies, and the third is the interesting one** – For each bucket: **outsource it**, **eliminate it**, or **make it exquisite**. The last is for things you genuinely must do. Write down every criterion that would make the activity excellent, then go and negotiate for those conditions. 5. **Monthly, until the ratio holds** – Not once. The claim is that at 75% green you are operating in your [[The Zone of Excellence Is the Danger Zone|Zone of Genius]], and that "magic will occur." ### **So what?** The uncomfortable part is usually not the reds you expected. It's discovering how much of the week goes to work you are good at, that other people value you doing, and that gives you nothing — which is precisely the hardest category to give away. Turn each remedy into a dated action immediately. An audit that produces insight and no calendar changes has produced nothing. And note the ordering constraint: this is the tool for finding joy *before* dismantling fear, which is why it sits underneath [[The Motivation Valley]]. Related: [[The Zone of Excellence Is the Danger Zone]] [[The Motivation Valley]] [[Top Goal]] [[Areas of Responsibility]] [[How much time is available]] [[Executive Operating System MOC]]