Half a month down in 2012: Are Your Priorities Showing?
Sunday, January 15th, 2012
This is a topic I covered a while back in a column on showing, rather than telling, your priorities, but here it is in a nutshell . . .
There’s no sense in bothering with excuses — least of all to yourself — for what your priorities have been. Just acknowledge that your behaviors have reflected what your priorities actually were.
Don’t even waste time feeling bad about it, but admit that whatever was most important to you at the time (your goals, your family, your fears, the chance to take the easy road, . . . ) drove your actions down a particular path.
So think back over the past two weeks — just 4% of this year, but a potentially tone-setting 4%. Have your real behaviors reflected your stated priorities?
My assessment for myself:
- Good progress on projects at work.
- So-so effort on athletic training, but not enough planning to account for a super-hectic schedule at the office last week.
- Not at all adequate effort or planning for my own writing projects.
What about you? What paths have you gone down in the past two weeks? Where are you going to move the needle the rest of this month?
