Rearrange Your Personal Preferences and Priorities
After we reallocate our time and assess our relationships, the next thing we need to look at when we decide whether or not something is worth the price is our personal preferences and priorities.
There are places I like to go and people I like to be with, and yes, there are just things that I like to do. They are good for me, they are good to me, and yet I recognize the fact that some of those things that I like to do so much take a disproportionate amount of my time.
There are areas of life that take too much of our time, and we get drawn away into doing things that we enjoy doing simply because we enjoy doing them.
Sometimes these personal preferences start to overtake the things that need to happen in our lives in order to facilitate becoming the people we are created to be.
Perhaps it’s a question of priorities. I believe that there is a way to achieve balance in life that allows for both the things we like to do and the things we need to do. That balance begins by rearranging preferences to fit into a priority structure.
When I do make the effort to complete the higher priority items on my agenda, it makes the time that I devote to those things that I enjoy so much more enjoyable.
I have discovered that I must be willing to step outside of my comfort zone in order to achieve something greater.
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Consider your goals.
Are there some preferences in your life that have a higher priority level than your goals?
Would it be worth it to rearrange those preferences so that you could achieve your goals?
Write down some ideas of what that rearrangement could look like for you.
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