There are countless time audit apps and tools out there for this highly foundational exercise. However, our Time/Wheel approach doesn’t look at time as a linear construct. In different perceptual states, time slows down, speeds up and sometimes disappears altogether. 

Therefore, it’s important to do time audits from the perspective that you can’t treat time all the same — but that there are some elements that need protecting. Such as sleep: the most fundamental aspect of our lives when it comes to healthy functioning. Sleep enriches our ability to learn, memorize and use our executive function. 

Dream states allow us to sort through long term memory and harness past and present knowledge in order to spark creativity.  We need sleep to come back to baseline on our emotions, keep our immune systems resilient and regulate our metabolism and digestive functions. The benefits are endless yet we squeeze this end-of-a-long-day basic activity to the bare minimum hours and don’t guard it as a resource. Instead of setting alarms to wake, we should be setting alarms to sleep; and then relying on our natural circadian cycles to wake us up for optimal functioning. 

This Time/Energy Wheel perceives our cultural notion of a 24-hour clock with the knowledge that time can be treated differently so long as you manage your energetic states throughout the day to achieve that level of perception and production.