In previous posts, I have talked about What Matters Most and Can What Is Most Important Come First? In those blogs, we started by looking at what can and should be most important to us – those are usually people, hopes and dreams.
Then, we discussed whether we can, actually, put those people and things first in our lives. It is so easy for those most important people and things to get pushed to the side as we work on the other things that seem so urgent at the time. There seem to be so many urgent things that, even though they aren’t as important, they take our focus.
In my own life, in doing research and in working with others, here is what I have found: Without a system and/or a plan and/or a strategic way of focusing, almost every day will get so busy with things that come up (things that seem so urgent) that the most important things will get pushed out or get relegated to inconsistent events.
At Mountaintop Life, we have developed a system to help sort through all of this and to also help plan and systematize how we can take control of our schedules to put first things first (as Stephen Covey said it).
Our next post will start laying out that system to see if it could benefit you. Then, I will go through the tools that Mountaintop Life provides to help make it happen.
Here’s a glimpse of what I can tell you. At one point in my life, it helped me go from a 60-70 hour work week to 32 hours per week. That enabled me to really spend some time on the other parts of my life that I had been neglecting because I was working so much. A system and a plan can have that great of an impact. Then, with a system, it can become really incredible what you can do with that time.