The word priority implies a status established in order of urgency or importance. I would define priority to be the value you place on something or the value you place on any given situation. The task of prioritizing your priorities affects your decision-making process. Whether or not you would fulfill your purpose in life depends on how you prioritize your priorities.
A man who puts friends over his wife and children has a wrong priority. Anyone who puts life over themselves has a wrong priority. To overcome the challenges of your life, you need to learn how to prioritize your priorities. In life, things ought to be important depending on how they affect you. Before making any decision concerning your life, you must weigh them properly then, decide not based on feelings or emotions alone, but on importance and urgency. You must also learn to hold on to the decision you have made without wavering. Life and its circumstances will test your priorities as well as attempt to push you away from track. Hence, you must prioritize your priorities.
STAGES AND TIMING
Life comes in various stages. Setting one’s priority right at each time of life would help you conquer your world. If you miss out in carrying a particular obligation at the right time, you have to bear the consequences of doing so later. This is where prioritizing your priorities comes in. it is the ability for you to choose between options, which is best carried at a particular time and which could be left for later. To commence plans to marry at a less than twelve years old in some culture is an example of the impact of not prioritizing your priorities.
Don’t forget that to everything there is a season
There is time for everything in life. In every individual’s life, there is a time to accomplish a given thing. There is a time to plan and a time to enjoy the fruits of your plan. A time to acquire a skill, a time to get married, a time t move from one level to another, a time to get acquainted, and so on. Without prioritizing your priority, you could find yourself doing the wrong thing at the right time, and the right thing at the wrong time.
Acquiring a skill is more important than getting a job. Planning your life is more important than facing your life. Calculating your needs is more important than making money. Choosing to do the right thing is more important than the pleasures you get for doing the wrong things. Prioritizing your priorities is, therefore, an important intelligence in getting to the level of your dreams in life. Knowing where you are going to and what you are looking for always makes the journey faster. Some persons are still where they ought not to be today. So much of life’s challenges can be taken care of if you would permit yourself to prioritize your priorities.
THE PROCESS
The process of prioritizing your priorities is not as easy as I have made it sound. Nevertheless, it can produce favorable results than I have penned. To prioritize your priorities is to follow a process. The process of using time to weigh the good and bad impact of your decisions, seeking counsel, asking questions, making researches, making a list, thinking real hard about the things ahead of you in life, and committing yourself to follow your decision. Granted, it is no easy task. But, as you do so, you would bring clarity, understanding and finally success to the nooks and cranny of your world.
Only a few persons follow this principle, and they are the ones at the top of life. I believe you want t be there too. Enduring the pain of prioritizing is more rewording compared to the pain of its lack. Most of the people who have regrets today are those who did not prioritize their priorities. This is not to say those who prioritize their priorities do not have issues in life. Prioritizing is an issue of its own. It is, rather, to say life works out best for those who prioritize. Therefore, always stop to consider the things calling for your attention before you embark on your day, week, month and year.
May the wisdom required to identify things as they are important begin to work with you from now on. And, may life value you more as you prioritize priorities.
You can take a decision today, any stage you are in your life right now is not too late. Try and put the following into practice and you would definitely reap the results.
Make a list of the things you must do.
This is a very important step in prioritizing your priorities as you must have to know the things you must do before having to choose which one to prioritize at a given time.
Re-arrange the list to determine which one should come before the other.
Divide the list into what you could do yourself and what /you could delegate, then begin working on them with a deadline in mind
I don’t write these things because I have a perfect life, I do because I have prioritize the priority of affecting life positively in my own way.
Why should this be the right priority? And what if everything the priests say what God pleasing is not true at all?
Prioritisation is important, but correct prioritisation depends on the goal you have set yourself. It can be different for everyone.