Priorities
How do you keep your day-to-day life balanced? How do you make sure you are accomplishing those goals that are really valuable for your life?
If we are going to keep our lives in balance, we need to have a set of well established priorities to help us in our daily decision making process. Goals and priorities are not necessarily independent from one another.
My wife and I have studied and discussed what the priorities for our lives should be. They apply to our individual lives as well as our marriage and family. I encourage you to study and pray about the priorities in your life. Ask God to lead you and help you come up with a well defined list that you can review when trying to achieve balance in your life, whether it is in your finances, your schedule, your goals, or any other aspect of life. Having a carefully designed set of priorities will guide you and help you structure you life. Here is our list:
1. God
2 . A. Spouse
B. Children
3. Health: Physical, mental and emotional
4. Finances
5. Extended Family
6. Ministry
7. Friends
Once your priorities have been established, you need to schedule your time in a way that allows all of those priorities to be accomplished. If you find yourself spending a lot of time on things that are not on your priority list, it is time to cut them out. If you find yourself spending more time on the bottom portion of your list rather than on the top, it is time to rearrange your schedule and start saying "not now" to some of those things.
When my wife and I are faced with a new project or activity that we would like to get involved with, we always ask several questions. They are, "Where does this fall in our priority list? How will our involvement in this project/activity affect the rest of our priorities? Will we have the appropriate amount of time left for the higher priority items?"
Having a well established set of priorities will help you keep a balance between the different activities that require time and energy from you. In other words, they will help you spend you life wisely.
How do you keep your day-to-day life balanced? How do you make sure you are accomplishing those goals that are really valuable for your life?
If we are going to keep our lives in balance, we need to have a set of well established priorities to help us in our daily decision making process. Goals and priorities are not necessarily independent from one another.
My wife and I have studied and discussed what the priorities for our lives should be. They apply to our individual lives as well as our marriage and family. I encourage you to study and pray about the priorities in your life. Ask God to lead you and help you come up with a well defined list that you can review when trying to achieve balance in your life, whether it is in your finances, your schedule, your goals, or any other aspect of life. Having a carefully designed set of priorities will guide you and help you structure you life. Here is our list:
1. God
2 . A. Spouse
B. Children
3. Health: Physical, mental and emotional
4. Finances
5. Extended Family
6. Ministry
7. Friends
Once your priorities have been established, you need to schedule your time in a way that allows all of those priorities to be accomplished. If you find yourself spending a lot of time on things that are not on your priority list, it is time to cut them out. If you find yourself spending more time on the bottom portion of your list rather than on the top, it is time to rearrange your schedule and start saying "not now" to some of those things.
When my wife and I are faced with a new project or activity that we would like to get involved with, we always ask several questions. They are, "Where does this fall in our priority list? How will our involvement in this project/activity affect the rest of our priorities? Will we have the appropriate amount of time left for the higher priority items?"
Having a well established set of priorities will help you keep a balance between the different activities that require time and energy from you. In other words, they will help you spend you life wisely.
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