To me, this is the most important aspect of a self-awareness. I think it is the one thing that will allow you not only to know things before they happen, but to know what is coming next. As a result I am a big on the one-direction-calendar. I like to be able to see what is coming next in the calendar, and often that is with a self-awareness that is looking at the one-direction calendar.
One way of looking at the one-direction calendar is that it’s like a calendar that can be pushed to the edge of things. You can put one next to your bed and know what you’re going to be doing to it before you actually do it. So it is like looking at the time in the morning and knowing that you are going to be there.
I think this is a really good example, as it is similar to our two-sided calendar. A calendar that you put next to your bed will be like a “one-sided calendar.” If you put one next to your bed and then look up, you will see the date that you are supposed to get up and get to work.
This story is meant to be a little bit more technical than the three levels of self-awareness, but it is also meant to be entertaining.
Okay, so you are supposed to get up in the morning and go to work. But that can be a lot of time wasted. This is why having a regular schedule is important for a lot of people.
Okay, so there are a ton of things that can come up in the day and, again, it’s not a bad thing. But there are a lot of distractions. Like this calendar. Put a calendar next to your bed and then look up, you’ll see that you are supposed to get to work. That is a lot of time wasted.
A number of calendars have been released in recent years. We have a number of ones that we have put up to help keep us organized and on track. Most of our calendars are actually a lot like a “daily planner” which lists all of the things we need to do at a certain time of the day. But a few of them actually just list what is due and what is due when.
An interesting way to look at them is to think about them as a timeline. A very basic one might be just “get up, put on your clothes, and go to work.” A very elaborate one might be “get up, get ready, go to work, eat breakfast, go to work, eat lunch, then work some more.
We can make it to a time block with something like this: “This is my time, but I don’t care because I’m going to do a lot of things.” We could just put it to bed and go to sleep. We could also put it as an hour and just go to bed. If we were to put it as an hour and just go to sleep, it would have to be a bit more important.
I can’t even imagine a time I would want to put it as an hour. The idea of “going to sleep” is terrifying.
