I remember reading on the front page of the Wall Street Journal about a person who was trying to find time on her calendar to get together with her friends. But, there were so many things on her calendar that it bothered her that she just couldn’t find time to spend with them.
Here’s the thing: She was eight years old. Eight.
How have we gotten so busy? How have so many things filled our schedules that we often sit at the end of the day and wonder if we really accomplished anything? How have so many things crowded our schedules, that we hope we can just get some of the most urgent things done – whether they are the most important or not?
This is a big deal because of how much it wears us out. But, at some point it often becomes a bigger issue because, in the swirl of reacting to the urgent, we can really hurt or take away from what is most important.
What is most important to you? It hopefully includes things like people, hopes, dreams, goals. Big things. Deep things. Things that really matter.
I know this can be a worn out expression, but I have lived it. I have had the honor and difficult privilege of being with quite a few people when they were very close to the end of their lives (often within hours of their final breath). Never once did any of these people ever talk about wishing they had spent more time at the office or even wished that they had made more money.
Almost every time, they talked about people, hopes and dreams.
My concern is that those things are the easiest to get lost in the busyness and sometimes almost chaos that can take over our days.
At Mountaintop Life, we are dedicated to providing very real, practical tools to help anyone and everyone (who wants to) to live a more focused, balanced, intentional and less reactive life. The goal is for these tools to help us focus on what is important and make sure that those are the things that have priority in our day.
Look for upcoming blogs that share these tools and also give real life examples of how they help prioritize and live out each day – and what that means.