time-energy-management
Help users master their personal output by shifting from reactive scheduling to intentional energy management, internal trigger mastery, and proactive boundary setting.
npx skills add RefoundAI/lenny-skills --skill time-energy-management --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.
# Time and Energy Management Protect your focus and fuel your performance by treating time and energy as strategic assets. Help the user with time and energy management using insights from 25 guests and posts across Lenny's Podcast and Newsletter. ## How to Help 1. **Audit current habits** - Help the user identify where their time actually goes versus where they intended it to go using real-time tracking techniques. 2. **Identify energy leaks** - Guide the user through mapping their daily energy fluctuations to find recurring tasks that drain them. 3. **Establish boundaries** - Assist in drafting personal policies and scripts to decline low-leverage requests politely. 4. **Optimize work blocks** - Structure a schedule that prioritizes deep work and high-leverage 'Daily Highlights' over shallow reaction mode. ## Core Principles ### Reflective Synthesis Alex Komoroske: "And I take a lot of notes. And people, I tell people when I'm in meetings with them of like, 'If you see me on my phone or typing, that means I think you said something very interesting and I'm writing it down. It's not that I'm just that I'm disengaged. I try to collect all these ideas.' And then once a week, I go th
- How to Help
- Core Principles
- Reflective Synthesis
- Action-Based Boundaries
- The Daily Highlight
- The 10 Percent Enjoyment Rule
- Internal Trigger Mastery
- Strength Alignment
- Battery Management
- Questions to Help Users
- Common Mistakes to Flag
- Deep Dive
- Related Skills
What does the time-energy-management skill do?
Help users master their personal output by shifting from reactive scheduling to intentional energy management, internal trigger mastery, and proactive boundary setting.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add RefoundAI/lenny-skills --skill time-energy-management --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 RefoundAI/lenny-skills, a repository with 1,215 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.