Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha
One of the ways to succeed in
life is to pay attention to priorities. What are priorities? The Merriam Webster Dictionary defines priority
as something that is more important than other things and that needs to be
done or dealt with first. priorities: the things that someone cares about
and thinks are important. : the condition of being more important than
something or someone else and therefore coming or being dealt with ...www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/priority.
This implies
that priorities are more important than what may appear very urgent. True,
there is some urgency that should be attended to especially a life threatening
situation over a priority. However, there are some urgent situations that
should never take the place of priorities. For instance, if a non life
threatening situation that is not a priority, is not on your priority list of
activities and is designed to infringe on your time; what to do is to ignore it
completely and leave to the person who created it to deal with it. There are
people who through their non chalance create urgent situations that should
never arise if they paid adequate attention to their tasks for other people
with whom they work. Unfortunately, they usually do not have the capacity to
manage such urgent situations and are usually glad to pass them on to people
busy on the way to Success Street.
If you consistently take on such urgent situations
and ignore your priorities, you will not
only slow your journey to Success Street; you may even forget it
altogether as you will invest a greater part of your time and expertise
managing the inefficiencies and irresponsibility of other people who do not
give a hoot as to where Success Street is and have no intention of getting
there.
The worst disservice you can do to
yourself is to pay attention to what may appear urgent but has absolutely no
bearing on God’s divine plans and purposes for your life. This is because what
may appear very urgent but which is not necessarily a priority robs you of precious
time required to activate success in your life. Therefore, always ask God for
the wisdom to discern between priorities and urgencies. That way, you will
concentrate efforts managing priorities and speed up your journey to Success Street.
Shalom.
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