PCM ((Process Communication Model®) looks at many areas of life, trying to explain and describe. Today we are going to take a peek at CALENDARS...📆 We will try to look for common traits and denominators depending on our personality type, keeping in mind that we can use different floors for different tasks! Which floor do you use when keeping a calendar? 🤔
The 🔵Analyst's calendar will be tidy - colour legend, simple tables, no unnecessary embellishments. He'll make sure that cancelled appointments are crossed out with a simple, neat line to avoid clutter. Chances are he uses an electronic calendar, synchronised in the cloud, which helps him keep his schedule tidy and accurate no matter what device he is currently using.
🔴Activist - will most likely not keep a calendar at all in the standard sense. Tables, writing down, planning - that's not the way to go. He thinks differently - with action. He will remember about a meeting thanks to documents scattered on his desk, a flower on the windowsill will remind him of his grandmother's name day. Maybe sometimes he will write something on a sticky note and hang it on the wall? Won't the activist get lost in this system? Yes, sometimes he will, but for him that is not the most important thing. The most important thing is to act!
The planner🟠Empata will be, above all, pretty, as Empata naturally delights in what is beautiful. How about a ready-made notebook in your favourite colour or a hand-drawn bulletjournal? Birthdays of loved ones, name days, family and friend gatherings are sure to catch your eye, marked on a calendar - after all, relationships are a world in which the Empath feels like a fish in water.
🟡 Rebel. With an even higher degree of probability than the Activist - he will not keep a calendar. For him it's all about contact with people, positive emotions, interaction- a calendar doesn't give him that. Unless it's one with jokes for every day of the year - then I don't think any Rebel would pass it by indifferently!
For the 🟣Unbending, more important than the form is the reason for keeping a calendar. If he has the conviction that it is valuable because it helps to organise daily life - he will do it. If he doesn't - he will consider calendar planning unnecessary. He is most likely to use the form he considers most ethical (I prefer electronic because I don't waste trees) or related to tradition (a calendar should be kept in a leather notebook) - depending on what views he holds in his life.
Calendar 🟤The dreamer will be the hardest to describe. He or she has most of his or her world in his or her head, has thought through every scenario, has chosen the best one and may no longer have the need to put it on paper. Or it may be the other way around: out of the stream of thoughts, the Dreamer will capture the most important ones and jot them down so that they don't poszły into oblivion. Therefore, in the margins of the calendar, you will see notes, sometimes single words that only make sense to their author.
What about you? How do you keep a calendar?
See how in terms of the Communication Model® process planning your holiday.
