To me, I believe this is, without a doubt, one of the most important questions that we have to ask as we go through our life. Personally, I feel that it is critical for each of us to clarify about our own priorities, because I believe the once we are clear about our priorities, it can help us to make better decisions and more importantly, more conscious about ourselves and our loved ones.
Well, I came out with this question when I just signed on as SAF Officer Army Regular. At that point of time, I knew that this is my career and it’s going to be a new priority in my life.
With that, it intiated a change in my priorities for my life.
Since then, my priorities have not changed a bit. So what is your order of priorities?
The priorities for my life are the following:
- Self
- Family
- Work (Career + Studies)
- Relationship (Partner)
I put myself first simply because I cannot truly love my family, excel in my career and studies and love my partner or any other thing unless I love and give to myself first. Family comes before Work simply because my love for them are far more important than work and any amount of material reward. Work comes before Relationship simply because at this point of time, I just want to concentrate in getting good grades in my studies and establishing myself in my career. I feel that this is not the time to get into relationships.
Well, this order of priorities will stay maybe for the next 3-5 years? Hahaha, definitely, I will change them in future. If not, my parents will kill me.
Agree, that along the way, there would be a lot of ‘What if?’ questions that would pop up daily in our lives, but what I truly believe is that, we need to give serious considerations to the order of our priorities. The order of our priorities is what our makes the difference between struggling in life and loving life.
Let me round this up with thought of the day….
>> The key is not to prioritise what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities. (Stephen R. Covey)
