Energy
This is the name for the foundational energy source that powers your day, often called a “battery.”
What is the Physical Battery?
College students who sleep less than this many hours report more stress and lower academic performance.
What is seven hours?
Poor academic performance can increase this, which in turn worsens time management.
What is stress?
Poor time management can lead to reliance on this type of food, harming gut health.
What is junk food?
This acronym stands for Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-Bound goals.
What are SMART goals?
This battery powers your focus, analysis, and learning. Like your brain’s CPU.
What is the Mental Battery?
Poor sleep can lead to this common time-management problem, where you delay tasks and work slower.
What is procrastination?
After receiving low grades, students often experience a rise in this time-wasting habit.
What is procrastination?
A stable, nutritious diet helps regulate this body response, improving emotional control.
What is the stress response?
The Eisenhower Matrix divides tasks into four quadrants based on these two criteria.
What are urgent and important?
This type of battery is drained by conflict, people-pleasing, and suppressing emotions.
What is the Emotional Battery?
A consistent one of these improves your timing, routine, and efficiency.
What is a sleep schedule?
Effective time management can break this reinforcing loop of stress and poor performance.
What is a negative feedback cycle (or negative cycle)?
Without a meal plan, this can deteriorate, causing issues with mental health.
What is self-esteem (or self-confidence)?
In the Eisenhower Matrix, tasks that are urgent but not important should be handled this way.
What is delegate?
To recharge your mental battery, the PDF suggests doing this instead of multitasking.
What is monotasking (or focusing on one task)?
Sleep deprivation slows down thinking, reduces this, and increases mistakes.
What is memory?
Better organization through time management strengthens this, which boosts motivation.
What is confidence (or self-belief)?
Scheduling meal prep and blocking time for cooking creates this type of meal plan.
What is an organized meal plan?
This strategy involves turning off non-essential notifications and setting a hard stop to your workday.
What are boundaries (or power-saving mode boundaries)?
This advanced strategy involves tracking your energy levels for a week to schedule proactive work during peak times.
What is an Energy Audit & Mapping?
This is the recommended nightly sleep duration for boosting energy and improving planning skills.
What is 7–9 hours?
This type of work should be scheduled during peak energy times, according to the Energy Mapping strategy.
What is Proactive Work?
Healthy eating supports this type of health and stress resilience.
What is brain health (or mental health)?
During a commute, doing this is recommended to use travel time productively.
What is listening to podcasts/audiobooks (or practicing mindfulness/breathing exercises)?