Permission to Prioritize Your Life - Granted
By Tana M. Mann Easton, Lead Efficiency Engineer
One of Greg McKeown’s most notable quotes is, “If you don’t prioritize your life, someone else will.” He learned this lesson the hard way. Greg often tells the story of the day when one of his children was born. He had a professional meeting set up for that day, and after much tortured consideration, he ended up attending the meeting. It was there at that meeting on the day his child was coming into the world that he realized he had made the wrong choice. He prioritized the wrong thing. And that personal failure catapulted him to start thinking and living like an essentialist.
We all live our lives in days, hours, minutes, and seconds. Each one of those days, hours, minutes, and seconds will be allocated to something. If we don’t take the time to get to know ourselves, figure out what we value in our lives, and actively and consciously make the time for our most treasured endeavors/people; then the rest of the world will fill our lives for us. We’ll passively live lives working in professions we don’t care about, being in relationships we don’t want, giving our attention to apps on our phones who want to sell us things we don’t need, and perform someone else’s agenda. But we can always choose, on any day, at any hour, minute, or second to take control and prioritize our lives for ourselves. It’s never too late. Simply make up your mind, and start.
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Sincerely Yours,
Focus to Evolve Team