bennett-time-audit
Audit a week the way Arnold Bennett's 'How to Live on 24 Hours a Day' (1908) prescribes — time as the one income that cannot be increased, the day-within-the-day, and starting with 90 minutes, not a life overhaul. Use when someone says 'I have no time', 'work eats everything', 'I want to learn X but can't fit it', or asks for a time audit or evening routine. Produces a time ledger, one reclaimed 'inner day' block, and Bennett's own warnings about overreach.
npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill bennett-time-audit --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Bennett Time Audit Skill Bennett wrote the original time-management book for commuters and clerks, and its opening reframe still cuts: time is "the inexplicable raw material of everything", delivered fresh daily — you cannot earn more of it, and you cannot waste it in advance. His program is deliberately unheroic: don't optimise the job; build a small **day within the day** from the hours around it, and start with ninety minutes three evenings a week, expecting it to be hard. This skill runs his audit and his program, including his warnings, which modern productivity advice quietly dropped. ## What This Skill Produces - A **24-hour ledger** for a typical weekday: where the hours actually go, with the "muddled margin" (commute, scrolling, the vague hour after dinner) made visible - One **inner-day block**: a concrete 90-minute, 3-evenings-a-week commitment with a named purpose the user chose - A **protection plan** for that block (what it displaces, what threatens it, the rule for missing it) - **Bennett's caveats**, applied — the book's own anti-burnout warnings ## Required Inputs Ask for (if not already provided): - A typical weekday, hour by hour as best they can tell it (wakin
- What This Skill Produces
- Required Inputs
- Framework: Bennett's program (1908), applied
- Output Format
- Quality Checks
- Anti-Patterns
What does the bennett-time-audit skill do?
Audit a week the way Arnold Bennett's 'How to Live on 24 Hours a Day' (1908) prescribes — time as the one income that cannot be increased, the day-within-the-day, and starting with 90 minutes, not a life overhaul. Use when someone says 'I have no time', 'work eats everything', 'I want to learn X but can't fit it', or asks for a time audit or evening routine. Produces a time ledger, one reclaimed 'inner day' block, and Bennett's own warnings about overreach.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill bennett-time-audit --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills, a repository with 1,255 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.