If everything is a priority, nothing is.

I have been in several situations lately where I have heard others struggling with this.

It reminded me of the story a friend of mine told me once about the company he was working for. The company had devised a system of prioritizing all of the projects the company was working on so that people could tell what was most important at any given point. Problem was that people lobbied to get their projects on the important list and pretty soon everything was important.

We are all running a company of one, all day, every day.

How we choose to prioritize our lives is a key determinant in how our lives turn out.

Take a good look at how you have spent your last 24 hours or your last 7 days.

Did everything seem like a priority?

Did you let that goofy email distract you from responding to that client faster?

Did you let something else take up that time that was supposed to be spent exercising?

I know this is a difficult area for most of us. We are afraid of making the wrong decisions and picking the wrong priorities so we treat everything like a priority.

Some things in life are more important than others. We all get to pick which ones. But we all have to live with the consequences that those choices produce.

Make it a great day.

Jake