Every day, the world will drag you by the hand, yelling, “This is important! And this is important! And this is important! You need to worry about this! And this! And this! And each day it’s up to you to yank your hand back, put it on your heart and say, “No. This is what’s important!”

IAIN THOMAS

With so many variables screaming at us to elevate their position on our overall prioritized hierarchy, how is it possible to continually maintain a balanced equilibrium that is fully capable of ensuring that all of those elements in our lives are getting the proper attention that they truly require, within the time period that they necessitate?

If we are consistently trying to find our path between a large list of elements, each of which, at face value, appear to have the importance to necessitate our immediate attention, where is the ultimate guide to enable us to work our way through these elements and deliver on their respective needs?

As we grow up, the prioritization component elevates with each and every year. In the beginning, the needs that we fulfill are basic and rudimentary.

Cumulatively, year after year, the increased priorities get their due positions within our world, in order that we might ultimately expand our horizons and increase our collected abilities to separate each of the respective priorities into a sequence that is most likely to continue to precipitate our greatest successes going forward.

If our parents have been diligent in their approach towards ensuring that our homework is completed and our proper nutrition is consumed, an our morality and principles are centered, then we are in a prime position to succeed as our priorities accumulate, and our necessity to foster these skills increases with our overall demand.

In our ongoing determination, we further accentuate these so that as we get to our more productive years, we have found the internal mechanism by which we are able to assess how and why each priority deserves its cumulative position in our respective timetable.

By the time we have mastered a majority of these skills, we find ourselves with such an eclectic combination of these priorities as to once again confuse the decisions that must be made. The ultimate determinations that will yield our greatest potential results await our attention.

Unfortunately, we might become conflicted by many priorities that take us into newfound territory, where we are potentially having to determine between maintaining a livelihood versus watching out for our own personal health and the health of those that we love.

Your greatest ally in all these moments is your heart, for your brain will most likely make the wiser analytical choice. Sometimes, if we are wise, we will empower our heart to make a better decision and ultimately yield the rewards we are seeking, deep within.

When you find yourself in a position in which these choices are in conflict, weigh the alternatives carefully, for there may be variables in the equation that you do not at first pay the highest attention to, while making a brain-oriented snap decision.

Happy Friday!