Greg McKeown's famous quote is ever more true. Someone is always waiting to prioritize your life. But then it is no longer YOUR life, is it? Someone is always prepared to give you more tasks, more responsibility, more options, more success, more agendas, more more more. And perhaps you can't wait for that challenge. But it is not YOUR life, because you did not choose those tasks, responsibilities, options, successes, agendas, etc etc. Someone else did. This is not what you want to accomplish.
Instead you want to pursue the right things for now. Which may not be what you should have pursued a decade ago, but what you should be doing right now, today, in this moment. But few of us have this experience. Instead we endow objects, opportunities, and possibilities with mystical powers, and THEY own our lives, our priorities.
The endowment effect - another McKeown quote - states that your emotional closet has more in it than you can purposefully utilize. This is true in our actual closets, and in the closets (spheres) of our lives. When you touch it, it being whatever is in that closet, to give it away, to get rid of it, whether it be a sweater or an opportunity, we seem to automatically overvalue whatever is in that closet. When this happens - and it will - at that point my closet owns me, it determines my priorities, I have lost control.
The only way to regain control is to regain control. Don't let these "things" be more important than they actually are in the real world. To get to MY measurables, MY objectives, MY deliverables, I have to have the clarity to understand what MY priorities are, and not allow my closets nor my peeps to prioritize my life. So sit down right now, list on a sheet of paper what are your underserved priorities actually are, and then list the priorities that others and the stuff in your closets are presenting to you.
Find clarity.
Prioritize your life.
Or someone else surely will.
