The Haunted Calendar

Metaphorical Narrative

A dim hallway lined with doors—the months. From behind them, overdue reminders murmur your name.

You keep hitting ‘snooze’ and the house grows louder.

Core Insight

When calendars hold tasks, wishes, and guilt, every chime becomes a threat cue. Time‑blindness and alert fatigue erode trust in your own system.

Calendar sovereignty separates time‑bound commitments from task lists. Reducing reminders restores signal: when it rings, it matters.

Identity Shift Tie-In

Observer Mode becomes caretaker of the house. Sovereignty is the identity of a person whose calendar reflects reality, not hope.

Saturday Experiment

1. Do a 30‑minute ‘calendar funeral’: delete or convert anything not truly time‑bound.
2. Create two anchors for today only; everything else lives on a task board.
3. Turn default reminders off; add explicit ones only where missing the time is catastrophic.

Sunday Reflection

• How would a narrator describe the soundscape of their day—alarms or clarity?
• Which door needs to be emptied first to quiet the house?
• What two anchors define a good day for them right now?