Important. First things first!

Why is it so challenging to keep my priorities the priority?

I tell myself “discipline”
instead I move toward “dopamine!”

I commit to focused work,
instead I hold hands with “my distraction rectangle.”

I aim to eat healthy,
and open my mouth to sugar sugar sugar.

I’m not too discouraged by problems like these. I’m not surprised or discouraged because I think we all face this priority problem in various ways. So, I’m not alone. You are not alone.

As the problem comes in various ways so to I think that the solutions can come in various ways.

One solution I like is of ROCKS. I believe Covey originated this idea. His analogy involves a jar that must be filled with rocks (major priorities), pebbles, and sand – emphasizing that you must put the big rocks in first, or they won’t all fit.

I find this so true. If I don’t make room in my life for what I believe are the most important things, then life has a way of filling up with unimportant and urgent things. For example,

• I need to be intentional in spending quality time with my wife and kids. If I don’t the days fly by my kids grow up and my wife becomes distant. Each week in our calendar we have “family day”. It is a priority.
• I need to make room in my week for exercise.
• I even need to block off time for things like rest and relaxing. If I don’t, no one else will and pretty soon I become more irritable than I should be.

What is important to you? Do you prioritise it in the real world of your day to day life?

In my world the most important ROCK that I think many people misplace is God. We are so busy with so many things we see that it can be understandably easy to forget the #1 priority that we can’t necessarily “see”.

One way that millions of people around the world make room for God is through prayer. Do you pray? Perhaps you did a few times as a kid. What if it became a priority in your life. I would like to propose that it could and that you and I would be better off if it was. Those who seek will find.

May we make room in our lives for The Rock and the Rocks. ❤️