Theme
What’s on First
Description
Check your Priorities
To Do
Identify what really really matters and deal with those things first.... consistently
Nourish Yourself
Do not spread yourself too thin! And when it comes to eating, take your time, enjoy your meals, especially when eaten with loved ones with whom you could engage in meaningful conversation
As for your food priorities, or rather food choices, remember your goal. Is immediate gratification the objective? Or balanced healthful eating for long-term results?
As for your food priorities, or rather food choices, remember your goal. Is immediate gratification the objective? Or balanced healthful eating for long-term results?
Get Up & Go!
Go back to your journal and review your exercise schedule the last several weeks. Remember how energized and buoyant you felt after engaging in in some sort of exercise you like
Tools
Peace and quiet in which to think
And something on which to write, openly, honestlyTip
THE 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE®
“Stephen R. Covey's book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People®, has been a top-seller for the simple reason that it ignores trends and pop psychology for proven principles of fairness, integrity, honesty, and human dignity.” https://www.stephencovey.com/7habits/7habits.php
HABIT 1 : BE PROACTIVE
HABIT 2: BEGIN WITH THE END IN MIND
HABIT 3: PUT FIRST THINGS FIRST
“To live a more balanced existence, you have to recognize that not doing everything that comes along is okay. There's no need to overextend yourself. All it takes is realizing that it's all right to say no when necessary and then focus on your highest priorities.
Habit 1 says, "You're in charge. You're the creator." Being proactive is about choice. Habit 2 is the first, or mental, creation. Beginning with the End in Mind is about vision. Habit 3 is the second creation, the physical creation. This habit is where Habits 1 and 2 come together. It happens day in and day out, moment-by-moment. It deals with many of the questions addressed in the field of time management. But that's not all it's about. Habit 3 is about life management as well--your purpose, values, roles, and priorities. What are "first things?" First things are those things you, personally, find of most worth. If you put first things first, you are organizing and managing time and events according to the personal priorities you established in Habit 2.”
HABIT 4: THINK WIN-WIN
HABIT 5: SEEK FIRST TO UNDERSTAND, THEN TO BE UNDERSTOOD
HABIT 6: SYNERGIZE
HABIT 7: SHARPEN THE SAW
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THE 8TH HABIT®: FROM EFFECTIVENESS TO GREATNESS: https://www.stephencovey.com/8thHabit/8thhabit.php
Tweak
Avoid Distractions and Lack of Focus. (http://www.marin.edu/~don/study/5time.html)
Time is precious. Yet many people waste time by getting stuck in one or more of the following habits.
Procrastination - putting off important jobs.
Crises management - being overwhelmed by the current crisis. No time for routine matters.
Switching and floundering - lack of concentration and focus on one job.
Television, telephones and friends - these are all ways of avoiding work.
Emotional blocks - boredom, daydreaming, stress, guilt, anger and frustration reduce concentration.
Sickness - getting sick and blowing your schedule.
In all of these cases, the first step is to recognize the problem and resolve to improve. Use priority lists to focus attention. Try positive self-talk. To avoid distractions, find a quiet place to study, the library or a study hall. Get an answering machine.
Questions
What matters to you most? What do your really care about? What makes you happy?How have your priorities changed over the last year ... or two.... or five
Thought
“Never let a problem to be solved become more important than the person to be loved.” - Barbara Johnson
“The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.” -
Stephen R. Covey
“I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.” - Zelda Fitzgerald
“We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.” - Charles E. Hummel
“Success is only another form of failure if we forget what our priorities should be.” - Harry Lloyd
Tidbit
‘Values auction’ offers look at teens’ priorities by K.C. Jaehnig (http://news.siuc.edu/news/October09/100809kcj9064.html)
CARBONDALE, Ill. -- The things students at a prosperous Chicago high school value most -- love, God, happiness, friendship and wisdom -- have changed remarkably little over the last 30 years, as have the things they value least: popularity, boyfriends, clothes and (with the exception of those asked in 1988) sex.
CARBONDALE, Ill. -- The things students at a prosperous Chicago high school value most -- love, God, happiness, friendship and wisdom -- have changed remarkably little over the last 30 years, as have the things they value least: popularity, boyfriends, clothes and (with the exception of those asked in 1988) sex.
“The things the kids talk about most are things they don’t really want,” says Tony Calabrese, now an instructor in kinesiology at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
Calabrese has been examining teen values at this particular school since 1978. He will talk about this work at noon Wednesday, Oct. 14, in Room 219 of Wham Education Building on the SIUC campus as part of the College of Education and Human Services’ free brown bag lecture series. Those attending may bring their lunches; the dean’s office will provide light refreshments.
Calabrese, who taught physical education at that high school shortly after it opened in 1965 until his retirement in 1993, devised a “values auction” as a way to understand what really mattered to his students. After receiving an imaginary $1,000 and a list of such items as money, success, helping others and self-confidence, students bid on the items they want most. Calabrese then averages selling prices from all participating classes to put these items in rank order.
The auction essentially makes students put their “money” where their mouths are.
“You can say sex is important to you, but if the bidding starts at $500 and you only have $1,000, how important is it really?” asks Calabrese.
“The amount they’re willing to spend tells you how important it is to them. With sex, if they had to buy it, they generally didn’t want it. Same with clothes and free time. They talk about these all the time, but they don’t want to buy them.”
Because he was curious about how student values may have changed over time, Calabrese began comparing the responses at 10-year intervals (though during his teaching career, he ran the auction annually). “You can’t tell much if you look at just one year,” he says.
The values list expanded in 1988 from its original 30 items to 43. While students then added health and life to the mix of things they cared about and free time and prestige to the list of the unimportant, their five top and bottom choices remained much the same, though the rank order varied some from decade to decade.
“And it always goes for a lot,” Calabrese says.
Students clearly differentiate between love and popularity, though. The latter made the bottom five in all four decades -- again, the sole item that appeared there in each comparison.
Health ranked sixth of 43 in both 1988 and 1998 and 13th last year, but fitness -- something a P.E. teacher would consider a key component of health -- never made it past the No. 23 slot and once ranked as low as No. 35.
“Health is what they want, but fitness they have to work for,” Calabrese says with a shrug.
It may seem odd that teenagers, in the prime of life, would place such a high value on health, but Calabrese says a series of bad-news health stories -- starting with AIDS -- began surfacing in the 1980s, and the kids responded.
He also notes that independence, the fourth-ranked value in 1978, had dropped to No. 20 last year, a change in values reflected nationally in today’s “boomerang” kids who come back home to live, sometimes for years.
“Kids in the ‘70s couldn’t wait to get away from home, but beginning in the ‘90s they started to think maybe they couldn’t afford the car or the house the parents had, and they could see themselves going back,” he says.
Some of Calabrese’s former students now teach in Japan and have used the opportunity to run a values auction there. They found the Japanese students pretty much agreed with their American counterparts on every item save one.
“Their No. 1 value is free time,” Calabrese says.
Despite the congruence between the Japanese and American students, Calabrese cautions against presuming the existence of a universal teenage values system based on these results. What they do suggest, however, is a way for adults to help teens discover just what matters most to them.
The take-home lesson from all this?
“Be very careful about what you aim for, because chances are, that’s what you’re going to get,” Calabrese says.
Treat
Put on your own oxygen mask first. Make ‘you’ time a priority. Being relaxed and regenerated will benefit the people in your life greatly -- much more than if you exhaust yourself trying to tend to everyone else first
Blogs & Articles
Prioritizing Your Day and Simplifying Your Life: http://www.lifeorganizers.com/Organize-Your-Wellness-/The-Organized-Stress-Release/System-for-Prioritizing-Your-Day.html
5 Questions To Ask When Prioritizing Your Current Life Path: http://www.pluginid.com/setting-priorities/
Take Back Your Life: Prioritize Your Personal Life: http://ezinearticles.com/?Take-Back-Your-Life:-Prioritize-Your-Personal-Life&id=7051
In Sum
Dedicating thought, time and energy to what you value most will make life easier, and sweeter
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