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Prioritize Your Life for Success
Today, it is hard to open an e-mail newsletter, a website, or an
offline magazine and not see someone talking up the importance
of time management.
The time management gurus are going out of their way to teach
us how to set priorities in our work week, how to organize those
priorities, and then finally stick to our priorities to get more
done. I applaud their efforts.
Yet in all of the dozens of articles that I have read that speak
of the importance and power of priorities in our work day, I
have yet to see one person apply this principle to our lives
outside of our jobs.
Let me show you how this is important. There are in fact 168
hours in a week. Of those 168 hours, we spend about 40 of them
working, and we spend about 4 hours a week in transit to and
from our jobs. As a result, we are spending just over one
quarter of our lives taking care of business.
We spend approximately another 56 hours each week sleeping and
another 7 hours grooming ourselves each week. Add to this the
7 hours we spend eating, and we are left with 54 hours in our
week that no one is talking about.
I find it truly startling that people fill volumes talking about
how to manage just over 25% of our week, and completely ignore
another 33% of our week that is left to our free time pursuits.
Most times when I count down these numbers for people, they are
dumbfounded to realize that they have more free time available
to them than they spend actually working! Work seems such a
prevalent portion of our lives that we fail to realize that we
have lives beyond work.
So let me ask you a question. One third of your life is devoted
to non-work related activities. What priorities have you set for
yourself during these 54 non-work hours available each week?
Okay, now let me take that same question one step further.
Are you acting on these priorities each day? If I asked your
children what priorities you have set for your own life, how
would THEY respond?
So many people recognize a need to set priorities on the job.
Yet most of these same people fail to place priorities on their
lives. Why do people recognize the need for one and not the
other? Some would say that the problem is rooted in not having
God in their lives. But, even that falls far short of the truth.
Even Christians fall into this same rut. That seems to cancel
out the argument about a lack of God in our lives.
The only argument that bears out in fact is that we pay more
attention to giving our priorities lip service, than we do to
finding the strength, determination, and integrity toward
defining and then honoring any real priorities in our
lives.
The Christian knows to place his priorities in the order of
God, spouse, family, job and then finally hobbies. Yet human
nature guides him down the road that lays waste to any priority
he may set for himself while in church on Sunday mornings. Most
of the other religions of the world teach these same principles
as well, and still people of all faiths stumble down this same
road without fail.
Priorities, like God, require a commitment in our lives. We
must commit ourselves to establishing our priorities and then
to meeting them one at a time. God, of course, should be the
number one commitment you make to yourself. As through God, you
will find the strength and fortitude to establish and meet each
of your other priorities in life; priorities of spouse, family,
and job, each in their proper order.
Romans 12:2 NIV
Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be
transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able
to test and approve what God's will is--his good, pleasing and
perfect will.
It is not enough to sit in church on Sunday mornings and pledge
to make God the priority in your life. You must go to the further
extreme. You must make a commitment in your life to make God the
number one priority in your life. And then you must follow
through on that commitment. Then and only then, will you find
the abilities within yourself to reach beyond what you ever
thought you were capable of doing, to commit yourself to setting
priorities in your life, even outside of the work place, and to
follow the commitment to your priorities with the fulfillment of
your goals.
If you do not have God in your life, I encourage you to meet Him
so that you to may experience the joy and fulfillment of the
renewing of your mind, as so many of us have experienced. If God
is only in your life on Sunday mornings, I encourage you to reach
into your heart, past the lip service that you are offering, and
finally make the commitment to put God as the top priority in
your life.
In conclusion, I applaud each of you who make the commitment to
manage your time and priorities in the work place. It is my hope
that this article has opened your eyes to the part of your life
that is bigger than work, the 33% of your life that is spent
doing non-work related activities. Spend them well.
About the Author
Jan Wallen is the owner of http://www.StraightPaths.com/?Wallen1
a site dedicated to helping Christian business people conduct
their businesses based on Christian principles. Subscriptions are available by visiting her website
or you may send a blank e-mail to straightpaths@aweber.com
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