Quiet

Map your energy, not just your hours

Add a daily energy tracker beside your task list and rate each block from drained to charged. After a couple of weeks, Dotty's data view reveals which meetings, contexts, and people pull you down — and which restore you. Plan the next week so the heaviest social blocks land beside recovery time.

Schedule restorative niches between obligations

For every long meeting or social event, pre-block a short solo niche right after — a quiet walk, a closed-door note-taking session, a walk-and-think slot. Treat those niches as commitments, not optional. Naming them in your planner makes them harder to drop when the day gets busy.

Build a before ritual for high-stakes speaking

For talks, presentations, or hard conversations, save a reusable prep template: arrive early, rehearse the opening, breathing reset, key points list. Attach it to the calendar block so it auto-loads when the moment comes. The ritual is what lets quiet preparation translate into confident presence.