What do you focus on in your life? What are those things, around which your day revolves? What is the thing on which you spend most of your time? This is what we define as our priorities. Priorities are those things on which we spend our whole day.
Now let me ask you a simple question:- what is that thing on which you spend a lot of time in your whole day? I know that the answers to this would be separate as we all are separate individuals. But are you going in the right direction ? Whatever thing you are spending most of your time on, can you see some sort of route through it which leads you to your dreams?
If not then, where are you going? Just think about this. What life are you leading then? What is the purpose of your life? The sole purpose of life should be leading a life of purpose.
Martin Luther King said it so beautifully that,” If you haven't found something worth dying for, then you are not fit to live”
Many of us spend the best of our days chit chatting, too much SMS, too much Facebook, too much Whatsapp, too many distractions, thus too much wasting of time. And then we sacrifice on our sleep to gain back the time we have lost in the day. And by doing this, the sleep deprivation makes our body weak. Thus, wasting of our body. So you see, the lack of prioritization wastes our potential, wastes our health, wastes our emotional happy state and to sum it up, it is harmful to us. I think it's worse than any deadly disease. This particular disease starts from our own ways of spending our days.
See, This is what happens when you don’t focus on your To Dos List. We all make this To Do List very enthusiastically and very professionally. But the moment it comes to implementation, we procrastinate. Here are some simple steps on how to prioritize your day in the best possible manner : -
1) In the morning, as you wake up do the most important thing in the very first few hours of the day.
In this way, your that most important work can avail the benefits of your fresh mind. And you can achieve the “big goal of the day” much successfully.
2) Wake up Early !
I know , its difficult. But is it much more valuable to you than your dreams? No, Isn’t it ? So please wake up early. Because when you will wake up early and do your “big goal of the day” successfully, guess what it gives? It gives a sense of confidence, a sense of satisfaction. And it also leaves you with lots of leisure time in the day to relax and rejuvenate yourself.
3) Make a time table.
Schools have taught this. Teachers have taught this. And you can easily search the net for advantages of a time table. So am skipping to the next point.
4) Write your next day’s goals in the evenings.
As and when you are free from work and return home, give at least 15 minutes to build up your next day’s To Do List. Keep it short, simple and don’t make this list in the nights. Otherwise, your mind will always be stuck that you have some pending things to do and thus you won’t be able to sleep peacefully in the night.
5) Don’t Put too many things in your plate.
Prioritization is done to make things simple and when you try to add up too many things in your To Do list, it gets tiring to even see it! And thus you don’t need any better reason to procrastinate.
6) Don’t stress if you can’t do some things in the list.
We’re humans so yes, we do have limits and responsibilities and the tendencies to get deviated from our track. But if still due to some important reasons, you couldn’t complete your tasks don’t stress it, smile, stay happy and focus on what you have achieved and simply put that thing on the next day’s list.
So there you have it, a few simple ideas to take your life from mediocre level to the genius level.
Stay motivated. Stay excited. Stay happy.
