Priorities

There isn't a person alive who doesn't wrestle with competing priorities. Some experience it more consciously than others. Sometimes the battle ferocity varies but listen to people talk from their heart and you will hear the angst. Work, family, social demands are weighed and sifted along with spiritual, physical, educational and emotional fulfillment. This happens in the all too often confining perimeters of time and financial resources.

There is the ever-giving stay-at-home caregiver who wrestles with personal fulfillment or the working parent who battles guilt over not being more hands on in the raising of their children. The super successful executive who gets sick because they don't make time for their health and the ultra-health conscious person who can't hold a steady job. There's the happily married couple who never have or do anything throughout their lifetime and the wealthy, outwardly successful person who ends life sad and alone because they sacrificed all their relationships for the elusive pinnacle of accomplishment.

We all have our "if only" scenario which offers the reason we haven't accomplished what we claim to desire. Look a little deeper though and we have to admit it is because at the end of the day, something else was more important to us. Right or wrong, we made our choice.

The point is that we have to be flexible. Life is fluid. If we are waiting for the perfect season in our life to make good choices, that day will never come. There will always be deadlines, trips, holidays, events, illness, meetings, and every conceivable obstacle to making the right choice. If we let go of what we can't control and work with what we have left, then every day can be an opportunity to do what our heart truely desires.