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The exhaustion is telling you something specific.

Seven days of tracking your energy instead of your time. Find the pattern, name the gap, and pick one thing to change.

I paid The Misalignment Tax for years before I had a name for it

In late 2020 my company went from three people to twenty-three in nine months. On paper that was the success I had been working toward. In my body it felt like a treadmill someone kept quietly speeding up. The work had drifted from the reason I started the company, and I could feel the gap widening before I could explain it. I burned out. Coming back took a long time.

Here is what I learned. There is a cost you pay whenever your position and your purpose live in two different places. It never shows up on a budget line or a performance review.

You notice it in odd ways. A short meeting leaves you flattened. A decision that should take an afternoon sits for three weeks. You hear yourself describing your work in language that does not sound like you.

None of that is a time problem. Your energy is handing you real data, and most of us never write it down long enough to read it.

Who’s this For

Written for people leading in government, nonprofits, and companies who are good at the job and quietly wondering how much longer they can keep doing it this way. If you manage people, run a program, or carry responsibility that does not fit inside your job description, this applies. You do not need to be in crisis. It works better before you are.

What is inside

  1. A ten-minute writing prompt that surfaces what you are actually for

  2. A seven-day energy tracker, one page per day

  3. A scorecard for your three alignment zones

  4. Prompts for reading the pattern your week produced

  5. A two-week experiment to change one thing

Ten minutes a day. At the end, a page of your own handwriting that shows you where the tax is being collected.