what are your priorities?
January 9, 2012
First things first, Happy New Year. Secondly I know it’s been almost two months since I’ve written on here but life decided that I needed to have a break from blogging for a while even though it was not my intent. A lot of things have happened in the past few months. I’ve had ups and major downs as well. I’ve had victories, suffered losses, been heartbroken, been renewed and am still growing. Life has changed in many ways in a small frame of time, but I’m a strong believer and advocate that tests and trials in life make you stronger and most importantly I’ve missed this outlet.
One thing I’ve learned about in the past few months is about setting priorities. Really reflecting and figuring out what is important to you in life makes a world of difference. Not just the superficial but what deep down is important.
In dating relationships for example, people have to learn about priorities rather quickly. When a person becomes a part of your life you have to learn about having balance and figuring out how to do the things you want to do all while making the person in your life feel important. If a partner feels neglected, doesn’t receive the attention they need, doesn’t feel appreciated or feels like they come in last place that relationship probably won’t last. Learning what is important to you helps you put things that aren’t important aside and focus on things that will make you better as a person.
One of my goals for the year is to prioritize what is important to me and then base my vision off of that. I was reading an article and one of the first things it said was if you have a cluttered home, it can have a negative effect on other areas of your life and in turn the same is true for your mind. If your thoughts and your priorities are all over the place or even in a negative place it makes it all the more difficult to succeed in one particular area.
So my first priority was to clean out some internal clutter that included anger, fear, regret, lack of trust, worry, unrealistic expectations and some self-doubt. Are all these things completely fixed? Absolutely not, but I recognize what the clutter is and my priority is to start internally before I take on all the external. So my wish for you in this new year is that before you jump feet first into these resolutions that you prioritize and work toward a goal versus a resolution.
