Changing Priorities

What is important to you?  What are your priorities? 

These questions were recently asked to a room full of ladies.  There were so many different answers, but the result was mostly the same.

One lady said her priority was her finances.  Yet her checkbook wasn’t balanced, she had some outstanding bills, and she didn’t stay on budget. 

Another lady said that her business was her priority.  She works for two hours every week and hasn’t booked a client in almost a month. 

A third lady said that her priority was herself.  She even booked a massage that day.  But she eats junk food every day, snacks on candy, and hasn’t exercised in months.  She spends so much time doing things for everyone else that she not only forgets to take care of herself, but she missed a few doctor appointments and only takes her medication if she remembers.

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A fourth lady said that she values her “me time”.  In the morning she mediates and exercises.  In the afternoon she soaks in the bath.  And in the evening she journals about the good things that happened during her day.  This lady works from home and schedules time for herself throughout the day.

Why am I telling you about four different people?  These ladies all say they have priorities, yet only one of them prioritizes the things she says are important to her.  The rest of them want those things to be a priority, but they haven’t put in the effort to make them important in their everyday life.

If something is important to you, you have to make the changes necessary to put it at the top of your list.  Otherwise, it isn’t as important as you thought it was.