Check Your Priorities
Photo by Eric Bernard
The Monkey nudges me. We look at the clock. Thirty minutes gone by adjusting some administrative aspects of our website (by the way, do you like the “new” old look?). I had intended to spend no more than 15 minutes creating a new post for the blog, but instead devoted 30 precious minutes to the cause of updating some things on the back end of monkeyinmymind.com.
Not that doing that admin stuff is unimportant. We are not saying that at all. Instead what I am realizing is that one useful aid to goal accomplishment is to become more conscious of how we while away the hours.
How to Determine Your Priorities
Your list of priorities begins with exactly what you’re doing right now in this moment. Look around you. Go ahead. What time is it? What are you doing? Where are you? Is reading this what you intended to do when you sat down at your computer or iPhone just now?
If it is, then welcome! Good to see you again.
If not, then stop reading this and take a moment to center yourself and take these steps:
- Ask yourself if this activity is your highest priority at this moment.
- Listen for the answer.
- Proceed accordingly.
If your priorities in life, the things or people or activities that are most important to you, are not in accordance with your desires, or in other words, if you say something is important or a priority to you, but your actions speak otherwise, then you will find goal accomplishment to be a long, arduous, and winding road.
Living consciously simply means to live in a manner that balances action with introspection. Act. Introspect. Repeat, guiding our actions through choices towards our desires. In time we may effortlessly combine the two spheres into one vital force of consciousness, moving through the world fueled by love and the Universal creative force.
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