Interactive Tool
Hidden Demand Audit
The most expensive parts of a day are often the ones nobody counts — including you. This checklist walks the costs that don't look like tasks, so they can be weighed honestly and, where possible, moved somewhere cheaper.
What this is for: Finding the uncounted costs — waiting, preparing, deciding, monitoring, processing — and what each could become instead.
Waiting
Waiting is demand. It runs whether or not anything is happening.
Preparing and rehearsing
Deciding and monitoring
Processing and aftermath
One demand that wore a rest day's clothing
The day that felt easy but wasn't — worth naming once, kindly.
You can leave this blank.
What could each one be moved into?
What you've put together
Your choices stay on this page — nothing is saved or sent.
The invisible costs, named and sorted — plus what each one could become instead of the demand it currently is.
Nothing chosen yet — that's fine. Use only what helps today.
Hidden demand is not weakness or anxiety — it's real cognitive work that happens because life keeps asking questions of you. You cannot weigh a demand you haven't noticed.
A clean, keep-close version — read it here, or screenshot the page to have it on your phone.