Exactly how long is 1 hour?

Recently, I realized that I had a very poor concept of time.

I wasn't finishing all the things I wanted to.  Time would just seem to "slip" by me during the day (and on weekends in particular).  For the first time in my life, I started catching myself whenever I started saying a variation of these:

"Oh crap! What?  It's ____ o'clock already?"
"I just got really into it and guess I lost track of time."
"Wow, where did the weekend go?"
"This will only take ___ minutes."  [Meanwhile...]
"I forgot about our appointment..."

I am Sorry.

If I have any acquaintances, friends, or family reading this, I deeply apologize for every single time I was late or procrastinated.  This isn't meant to be an apology blog.  As the title states, it's for my own use as I track my self development progress 30 days at a time.

It doesn't stop, however, how I terrible I can feel about about the damage done by this particular bad habit of mine.  Even more troubling to my conscience is that I vividly remember the disappointment in your faces (if face to face) and voices (if over the phone).  They stay with me.  Nothing sucks more than hurting the people you care about and who care about you, inadvertent or not.  I'm working on getting my act together.  I promise you that.

Solution?

Well, not sure exactly.  If I knew I wouldn't be having this problem lol.  All those "time management" books and workshops given in school never seemed to work.

However, a funny thought came to me.  I began thinking about how well I would judge the passing of time without the use of any clocks or devices.  Well, I could probably gauge 5, 10, 15 minutes within reason...but 30 minutes or 1 hour?  I wasn't too sure about that.

So...I've decided to set the my phone alarm clock to go off at the start of every hour (6am - 9pm).

Sound crazy?  Yes.

Will it probably annoy the heck out of everyone around me?  Yes.

But when you want change badly, you've got to try something out of the box.  I'll be testing it to see if it offers any positive change.  At best this will force me to keep checking my phone and hence my calendar, and I'll be able to see how on/off track I am throughout the day.