Getting to this post took a few turns in the road. Up to this point, I have written three blogs, which I was hoping to have as fairly sequential:
- What Matters Most? - in which we discussed that what really matter most are typically people, hope and dreams and, yet, how easy it is to let those get pushed out of our focus and time
- Can What is Most Important Come First? - beginning the discussion of how we might be able to give what matters most the proper time and resources
- First Key: A Plan - discussing that it is very hard to have the above happen without a plan in place to make it happen. "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."
I had planned to follow up the third blog (First Key: A Plan) to start introducing the steps that we have used in Mountaintop Life to help bring what matters most into the right focus and have the right allocation of our time and resources. That is so important for so many reasons.
For example, if there are people around us who really matter more than anything else, yet we get so busy with other priorities that we don't spend the time with them that we should (or we spend time that is problematic rather than positive), then those relationships will, of course, suffer. Or, if we have a dream that we know we can and should accomplish, yet it keeps getting pushed further and further out, until it just dies out - we have lost, the people around us have lost and all of those who could have been touched by that dream have lost. Or, we let our bodies go and suffer those consequences. Or...
It is so easy for these things to happen.
As mentioned in an earlier blog, at Mountaintop Life, we have developed and lived a system that has helped us work on these issues and have some pretty neat and powerful results. We hope can help you do that too.
We had planned to start talking about those specific steps before now. But, we had to wait to discuss those details for a couple of reasons. First, we needed to get our trademark and copywrite the steps and our materials. And, we have also written a book that is a great reference for all of these pieces, but we weren't sure about the publishing timeline.
So, we have two pieces of good news: 1. The trademark and copywrite are applied for and/or in place; 2. And, the book is set to be published in late July/early August 2016. So, we are ready to start talking through the steps. The next blog will start talking about specific steps in the Mountaintop Life plan and we will also talk about how we can stay on track and motivated within the Mountaintop Life system.