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ENERGY

Does your day give you energy or take it? Do you finish the day with less than you started?

When you have it, when you don’t, and what produces or drains it across a normal week.

”High in the morning. Gone by 3pm. A difficult conversation with my daughter can wipe out the rest of the day.”

MOVEMENT

What does movement look like on a normal week?

What you do, how often, and whether it is built into the day or happens when there is time left over.

”Walk the dog in the morning. Nothing else most weeks. I keep meaning to do more but the evenings disappear.”

ATTENTION

Does what you do with your attention make you feel free?

What your attention goes to, what pulls it away, and how much of it you actually control.

”Phone first thing. TikTok before sleep. I sit down to do something and an hour later I am somewhere else entirely.”

ENVIRONMENT

Where do you feel most like yourself, and where do you not want to be?

Where you live, work and move. What the physical conditions around you make easy and what they make harder.

”At my best outdoors or alone. Drained by long commutes and places where I can never quite switch off.”

OBLIGATIONS

What does it make possible? What does it prevent? What do you want to change?

What the system is committed to. Work, family, relationships, recurring demands on time and attention. What was chosen and what was never questioned.

”Full time job, two kids, aging parents. A friendship I stay in out of habit. Work that expands into evenings without anyone asking it to.”

RECOVERY AND FUEL

What does your system need more of? Less? What restores your curiosity?

Fuel is anything the system converts into energy and output. Food, but also what you read, listen to and think about. Silence. Solitude. Recovery is what restores the system after load.

”Always listening to something. Eat on the go. Sleep around six hours. Can’t remember the last time it was genuinely quiet.”