Being school holidays and sitting on the couch whilst on a day off, I'm going through my diary for the term ahead.
My diary is important since i need to keep a decent track of the hours i work. I do this by dots and triangles.
To make up my 25 hours i need to work 9 three-hour blocks of time (going over since others are expected to put in a few hours around church, but have a full-time job). Each day is split into morning (9-12), day (12-3), arvo (3-6) and evening (6-9). Each morning or evening i work is represented by a dot in the corner of the page and a dot sits at the top of a date if I'm around during the day.
I think that i stole this from John Piper (thanks John!), but the system works effectively for me.
I know ahead of time how many segments are nonnegotiable. Fridays, Sundays, scripture, meetings, ect...
With this in mind i can then decide if anything else will fit into my allotted hours and can quickly see how many nights i will be out a week.
I get the dots. Not seeing where the triangles come in, though.
ReplyDeleteSorry, it made sense in my head and when you glance at my diary.
ReplyDeleteFor every day that i will be working in the morning or evening a triangle will appear in the top left (for AM) or top right (for PM) of the day in the diary.
Hope this enhances the mental picture of my diary...