When you hear the word priority, What do you think? You're thinking about your family, your job, your career, right? Our priorities vary, they are different and changing, they are not the same today as five years ago. However, there is something that makes them who they are, and it is the importance they have in, and bring to our lives.
If you've ever heard the sentence "organize your priorities," surely someone has seen you paying more attention to things that, for their perception, are neither urgent nor should have that place of privilege in your schedule. Our priorities vary throughout our years and we understand the importance -usually - of prioritizing tasks in an early age, today thanks to these priorities, in the order you have given them, you are who you are, but that is a topic for another publication, today we are going to see how the order that you give to your priorities are symmetrically related to your results in life.
In general we talk about eight or twelve great areas of our life that govern, or should govern, our actions and thoughts:
Health,
Intelligence,
Emotion,
Character,
Spirituality,
Relationships (couple, family and social),
Career (professional area),
Finance,
Quality and vision of life.
Everything is of value, everything plays an important role in the realization of a person, but the order and prioritization that we give to each is different for everyone.
If we do the exercise of reviewing, within ourselves, each of those aspects of life has a certain value, maybe you are a person who gives more value to social relationships than to your spirituality, or suddenly, you are a person who puts in his finances the highest priority and puts aside health. This is just a general idea, however, these lines are already generating a restlessness -or more than one- in your subconscious: 'what is my highest priority?', 'What is the minor one for me?', 'Am I prioritizing X, Y over Z and a?'. All these questions have a purpose in the subconscious: to match your perceived reality, the one outside of you, with the inner reality.
It's not about judging your life decisions, or pointing out people who put X over Y or the other way around, it's about understanding two things: first: my priorities aren't the same as yours, and that's okay, they don't have to be. Second: if there is an area of your life that you are leaving a very small space in your priorities, that long-awaited balance that requires a high quality of life, will take longer to arrive.
I invite you to do a practical exercise after reading this post that will help you understand your priorities. Write down in a notebook, from the list lines above, which of those areas has more priority in your life, then which has the second place, which has the third and so on until you complete the whole list. Simple, right? Now, read it again, and check the following: has position number 8 really more of a priority in your life than Position 9?, Between Point 2 and 3, which is more important?, If I prioritize number 6 over Number 4, How would that change my present? All these questions, answer them by attending to the following concerns: am I really living according to my priorities?, What changes should I make in my priorities to have the future I want to have, and live a better present?
It's not about setting aside certain scenarios and it's not about saying you should only focus on one area of your life. It's about understanding yourself better and balancing your reality so that there are no - or very few-spaces that generate voids in your life, it's about having a really more balanced life, in the broad sense of the word.
"Happiness is not a matter of intensity,
but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony."
Thomas Merton
This exercise of priorities will help, no doubt, to better understand your performance as a person and as a citizen of the world, to review how your prioritization of aspects or stages of life has affected your present and, more importantly, how you can change today and have a better and more balanced mind and start to plan and organize an ideal future.
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