We’re halfway through the year.
Before we start power through the rest of it, this is a great time to pause.
Stop checking off more tasks and instead check in with our energy.
We often measure time but rarely measure how we feel during that time.
Yet, energy is the real currency of our day.
This summer may have us in a crazy work season or searching for a new role.
No matter what life looks like, the MeEO Personal Energy Audit is for you.
This simple check-in can help you figure out what’s fueling you and what’s draining you.
Allowing you to design a better second half of the year.
How We Spend Energy
Every day, we move through different types of energy.
Some moments lift us.
Others wear us down.
What energizes one person may drain someone else.
The way we spend our energy matters just as much as how much we have.
Below is a MeEO framework to help you see your day differently.
These seven categories help you map where your energy is going and where it wants to go.
The 7 Types of Daily Energy
Charge: This is the time we spend recharging physically, mentally, and emotionally. Activities like sleep, exercise, sunlight, and quiet moments can all help us charge our energy. We often need more of this than we think.
Create: These are the times when we are at our best to do our deepest work. The focused hours when we produce original ideas, solve big problems, or build something meaningful. These are our power hours.
Craft: This is when we do lighter, semi-creative tasks. Activities like editing, emailing, organizing, and refining work we might have done in our create time. These are still productive, but easier to multitask or push through.
Care: These are the times spent tending to others and your surroundings. From caregiving to cleaning and preparing meals. Necessary and sometimes even enjoyable but often overlooked as energy-consuming.
Connect: These are the times spent with others having conversations, meetings, coaching, and bonding. Sometimes these connections are uplifting and other times they can be exhausting.
Not all connections are created equal and some gain energy from connections while others are drained.
Consume: This is time spent intentionally learning or being inspired. We could listen to podcasts, read books and articles, watch videos, or go out exploring a museum or other new places. These moments count if there’s a purpose.
Chill: Chill is the partner to consume. This is an unstructured downtime. We might scroll, watch, walk, or just zone out. This is helpful in doses but can be draining when unchecked.
Note: For additional background and a map of how a day might look, see this post.
Do Your MeEO Energy Audit
Grab a notebook or open a blank page.
List the seven energy types in rows.
For each one, ask yourself three questions:
- What am I doing in this category?
- How does it make me feel?
- Do I want more, less, or different?
Then rate each type from 1–10 in two ways:
- How much time you spend in this energy category?
- How much energy does the category give and take from your day?
This is your mid-year energy map.
Make Your Reset Plan
Now ask: What’s one shift I want to make?
Maybe you need a morning walk to Charge before jumping into work.
Maybe you’re craving more Create time that’s not jammed between meetings.
Or, you are doing Create work in the afternoon, but you are at your best early morning.
Maybe Care time has taken over and you need to delegate or ask for help.
Maybe you need to swap some Chill time for more meaningful Consume time.
Small changes can shift everything.
Start with one.
Your Turn
Which energy type are you craving more of?
What part of your day drains you the most?
What’s one shift you’ll try this week?