Prioritizing Your Precious Life
by Jo delAmor
Life can get very busy. There are so many directions to be pulled in these days. It is surprisingly easy to allow months, seasons and years to fly by without attending to our deepest desires and core values. It is easy to fill up our days and weeks by simply trying to make ends meet and keep up with our perceived obligations. So many of us feel short on time, trying to squeeze a healthy meal or some time with the kids into our busy schedules.
Life is short. Life is a precious gift. When we take these common sentiments to heart and apply them to our own lives it becomes clear that how we spend each moment and each day has a significance. How we spend our days and moments is up to each of us individually. We are each free to choose how we direct our time and to what purpose we devote our lives. When we begin with our core values and move forward from there, we will experience our lives as a precious, meaningful experience as opposed to an endless fleeting stream of moments gone by.
Core Values
To get in touch with your own core values simply requires an honest look within. Consider what is truly important to you. Consider what you appreciate and value about the world and your life that requires maintenance and preservation. Consider what you wish to call into the world that requires action and dedication to manifest. Consider what you wouldn't want to live without.
Here are a few ideas to get you started in this direction, but please consider your own unique perspective and the elements of life that you truly value.
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Now consider how you typically spend a week. What does the majority of your time get spent on? Consider time at work, time driving, watching TV, doing paperwork, making phone calls, housekeeping, what else? Does this answer match up with the things that are truly most important to you?
Learning how to truly honor our core values by allowing them the time they deserve is a huge act of self empowerment and self love that has the ability to completely shift your life experience into one of health, joy and fulfillment. No one else will do this for you. You are the only one who will put your values first.
Big Stones, Little Stones
A simple way of looking at your schedule and time management is to think of each activity as a stone. The most important activities are the largest stones. These are the activities that express your core values. These are the activities that define the quality of your living experience. The less significant activities are smaller stones or pebbles.
Imagine you have to fit all of these stones into a jar, which represents your week. If you put all the little stones into the jar first and then try to fit the big ones in, there may not be enough room for some of the bigger stones. If you put the large stones in first, though, the smaller stones will be able to fit in between them and fill the jar.
As you create your schedule with your core values in mind you can place the activities that express these values first and then see what time is available for the less significant tasks. For example, if it is important to you to spend time outdoors on a regular basis you may choose to schedule in specific times to go for walks and make sure you abide by them. The phone calls and laundry will get done when you come back from the walk. Whereas if you try to attend to the phone calls, laundry and all the other little tasks that come up before going for your walk it is easy to get stuck inside for the whole day.
Remember how important your precious life is and that you are the only one who can decide how you spend it. Time rolls on, day after day. When you are gratefully engaged in meaningful activities your life will feel rich and full.
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Life is meant to be enjoyed!