Keep Resetting Your Priorities

Planning and prioritizing have always been valuable and beneficial, but these have become more important in today’s busy lifestyles. Though every wise-person preaches to plan your day in the morning and then stick to the schedule and it sounds good and logical too, but I find it impractical under circumstances of most of us with usually not so well ordered lifestyles. We sleep with some worries of the past day and get up with new demands for the coming day along with pendent things of the past.

Look up any time about the tasks you are expected or aspire to perform. and you will find a lot of them with the realization that you can’t do justice with everything and everybody. As I got up today being with my children, I thought of writing some articles in the calm moments when children are still sleeping. Pendent things of the last day are also in my mind – to look up the computer problem of no sound. Problems of the coming day – get ready for setting out to my normal residence in the village where I am to attend two marriage functions tomorrow, and then traveling to the village which takes about 6 hours to cover the distance of about 150 kilometers by public transport services. I have formalized an understanding with a publisher for writing a book of about 500 pages for an engineering degree course within a period of about 4 months. I need to gear-up my facilities for speeding up my working in the village where electricity is available for about 6 hours a day only. To work longer, I need a laptop computer immediately. Like this, many things of short-term as well as long-term importance keep on wandering in the mind of each of us.

Dealing with everything expected from us by others and aspired by us is impossible not only for some like me but for a majority of others too. Realization of this weakness is the first step towards a relaxed working. So curtail what is superfluous for the present hour, day, month or year. As a result, I cancelled my account on three sites where I used to write articles, thus, now having less sites to write on with more concentration and creating better quality of work. Out of attending two marriage functions tomorrow, I shall attend only one in a poor family in the village. Instead of attending some friends on my way to the village, I would do some shopping on the way and proceed on.

As such engagement propositions keep on adding to our schedule every minute, we need to reset our priorities every now and then instead of waiting for the next morning. So, do it whenever your mind feels free enough and is willing for such a review. Such curtailments of proposed tasks relieve you of a lot of unnecessary tensions and superfluous engagements.

Less the burdens on mind, higher the performance efficiency of the person. So, whenever you decide to curtail a proposed program, you reduce your tension and hence improve your efficiency. So do it at the earliest possible moment, any time of the day or night.