| | This blog has run for some time now. Many have read the thoughts shared. Most of the entries have targeted the concept I chose for a title. Life is complicated with all kinds of details and we are so easily swept up in the details that we lose sight of the basics. There seems to be one basic of life that keeps coming up: PRIORITIES.
It is often a compliment to be considered a "detail oriented person" implying that the person covers all the bases. I have seem when a person gets wrapped up in the details and the avalanche of demands that caring for all the details creates, that the basics get lost. I observed first hand in our educational system, during a time when the rallying cry is "no child left behind," that an entire class of fifth grade student didn't know the parts of speech or how words functioned were required to move on with the curriculum with 80% unable to write or recognize complete sentences. Also observed junior high students left unchallenged, simply because some in their class were uninterested in learning. Education has in many cases lost sight of basics like: reading, writing, mathematics, and history. As a pastor, I have observed that a large portion of our congregations are not able to read aloud. Some basics of life have been missed.
Learning to set priorities and limits has many benefits for a person's life. Ever feel so busy that you wonder if sleeping is wasting time? My reading reveals that most of the "successful" people interviewed say, "I should have spent more time with my family" not more time working. Most people spend more time in front of the television a week than they do in restful sleep. As usual, I am speaking about myself as well. I get spread thin and stressed. I also say "I wish I had spent more real time with my family." Priorities and limits allow us to make decisions and say “no” to people and projects. You might not like to think this way, but when company inventories grow production cutbacks are needed to bring things back into line. These are hard decisions to make, but need to be made. When our lives become cluttered with excess inventory, we also need to make hard decisions to cutback.
Basic of Life is that if we don’t set priorities, we will be consumed by life. Priorities provide us the ability to choose the life we live.
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| | Posted 6/15/2008 7:29 PM - 51 Views - 4 eProps - 4 comments
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