Brian Weiner

Instead of saying “I don’t have time,” try saying “It’s not a priority” and see how that feels.

MILLIONAIRE PROCESS

Why is it that some things always get our attention, while others languish on the sidelines, waving to us occasionally in their best efforts to capture a valuable slot of time in our schedules?

We are provided the same amount of time in a day that Einstein, da Vinci, Newton, Mozart, Beethoven, Tesla and others had at their disposal.

Some things rise to the top of the list, while others circumvent our best intentions and steal us away from that which we ought be doing in favor of something that we impulsively want to do right away.

When queried about such time allocations, we might reflectively state that “there was not enough time to engage as we might have expected.” In actuality, in many cases, it is more truthful to admit that we did not prioritize that variable, and as a direct consequence, it was not dealt with.

We are conditioned to make excuses to others, or to ourselves, for the little things that slip through the cracks.

Most often, they slip through the cracks because we do not value them as highly as we might have expected that we would.

We can rationalize these moments to ourselves, but in that rationalization, we are ultimately making an admission of prioritization and as a direct consequence, we are shaping our lives in countless ways.

One might attribute such behavior as being a flavor of attention deficit disorder, and while that may be true, if a person is functioning with such a personality trait, they must still prioritize various things, just to survive, so the excuse does not truly hold, when it is just them staring at themselves in the mirror.

When your life appears to be floundering, and you are questioning why this is happening, you might ultimately look specifically to this point and recognize that if you are not achieving the variables that you have set forth for your current stretch of time, you are not making them your priority.

The excuse that there was not enough time puts the blame ambiguously on no one. It leaves a circumstantial answer to cover for the cold truth that if something really needs to be done, you will prioritize it, no matter what.

Happy Tuesday!