I'VE JUST BEEN TOO BUSY

Do you ever tire of hearing people give the excuse, "I just didn't have time." when you know that it is just not on their priority list because it never rises above goofing off, watching tv, resting, and any excuse will do if you will believe it!

Posted by blogger Balancenoosa was How to Set Priorities in Your Life. Read it, it is interestingly done. Translated, it is a restatement of 'eat your dinner before your dessert', or, tackle the least desired task first. Once the most distasteful task is out of the way, the suggestion is to tackle the hardest next. His third reference, Dr. Steven Covey, waws unknown to me. Since I don't have religious reading high on my personal priority list, I missed the third one. However, access to Google allowed me to look him up. Below are his suggestions.


My personal views for setting up priorities is quite different:

1. Take care of your body first…eat, bathe, exercise and dress, etc (You get older exponentially doing this as it now takes so long. You may eat less but there is more body to attend.)
2. Tackle the noxious tasks first. Take care of deadlines that will cost you money, failing to be met.
3. Reward yourself with something you like doing.
4. Return phone calls in order of interest, boring ones first
5. Reward yourself with something enjoyable to the eyes, ears, or tummy
6. Turn on the TV to make sure the news of the world does not let you miss anything. Relax, you can be sure it all news of concern will be beyond your control to fix..
7. Make sure that living things that might expire without attention (like plants or animals), are attended,
8. Check your living space and make a minimal amount of effort to keep it hygienically acceptable.
9. Practice blivet control (for those who have forgotten: a blivet is trying to put three pounds of manure in a two pound bag) by trying to maintain only a reasonable amount of clutter …(meaning you have to keep enough path clear to allow passage through every room, anticipating there may be an emergency need at some future point.)..
10. Reward your self with an activity or hobby you enjoy. (This should not exceed 95% of your day)
11. Repeat nightly ablutions
12. Go to bed peacefully in the knowledge that whatever didn’t get done will not go away and will be there for you tomorrow…and the day after that…and the day after that!