Priorities Help Us To Live The Life We Want

We set priorities each and every day.

Some big, some small. Some easy and some hard. And some impossible.

How do we manage?

What do we need to do?

• be able to see what our prime concerns are
• be able to see what our preferences for action have become
• to know the key issues affecting us in life
• to understand what the most pressing matters affecting us are
• to be able to see if anything sets precedence over anything else

and the reason why - we want to make some serious headway in our life.

At times we can question ourselves and wonder how we manage these decisions.

We think about what is really happening in our life. What we are doing. What we are involved in. What direction our life is going in.

At times like these words can be very powerful - healing, soothing, comforting, relaxing . . .

The power of words . . .

I strongly feel that words have a place in our lives. As we read this page we can let the words gently flow over us. We can let ourselves open up

• to the thoughts and their meanings
• to the ideas and their origin
• to the phrases and the understandings that they have ready for us

And too gently and slowly let them impact on our lives as we read - and in the future when we recall their meaning for us.

I hope this page has this effect. If we just remember that words can be very powerful - healing, soothing, comforting, relaxing . . .

Our priorities is the order system we give to things
in our life to help us to make more out our somethings,
to achieve and accomplish that is our aim
deciding which to do first part of the game.

What we do first may be our prime concern
but which priorities get done may be down to inclination
and what at first appears to be important
or is it what we like and for which we have a penchant?

Why should some of our decisions take precedence
or is it that we give them a higher preference
when compared with other things we have to do
we dislike some - to do those would be a real breakthrough

Of greater proportion than we may think
we tend to do first the things that don't make us shrink
away from for fear of disappointment or exposure
of our lack of confidence and expected failure

So we have to take ourselves firmly in hand
and look at things, and not as if it was Custer's last stand,
start to look at them in a brighter light
having the will and the ability to succeed being our birthright

And part of our wholesome and orderly character
though this should not make us feel too superior
we need to start looking at things in context
not pie in the sky or to be transcendent

But down to Earth and in our backyard
we can maintain control and look forward
with fondness at what might be our prerogative
when before we could see no real alternative

To the choices and decisions we have to make
the crossroads in life that we have to take
may be not those we would tend to prefer
the winds of life may blow to us the answer

To which way we should have to turn
which priority should be our first concern
and then in order those we should act on
and stop working before we have to stifle a yawn

Because deciding priorities may be an art
but always we have to make one the start
of the route that we have decided to take
it is good if in the result we have a stake

Then it will for us have some meaning
and we not be blown along by a wind prevailing
rather we would do well to be deciding
our direction and the inviting

Of our life in on the act
make decisions with care and also with tact
and help us to put effort into those that are important
and, in so doing, for us to be able to live in the moment.

All best,
Martin