Identifying Your Priorities and Values

Have you ever noticed how human beings always judge every item and every thing they see by some sort of value? For something to be of value for most of us, it has to have a high monetary value. Maybe it is necessary for it to appreciate with time. Other standards may be easily considered to be how much of a resource we actually have. However no matter how old or young we actually are, we all have one precious commodity and we never have enough of it.

I am talking about time. Time is literally never on our side. Pay very close attention to the passage of time in your life. How much of this precious commodity have you squandered lately on unnecessary activities? I am not talking about playing a game etc, but fighting, arguing about unimportant things. We spend this precious commodity worrying about things we can not change in the end. When it comes to time, we are all helpless. We never know how much time we have left. How much time is given to us?

In my household the following thoughts could easily reflect any of a thousand households across America. The adults spend endless hours working either from their homes or away from homes. When they finally get home each seems to have their own personal entertainments to go to. Household chores, errands and more are also on the list. By the time we are finally done at night most of us sit down to a hurried dinner in front of the TV and then fall to sleep exhausted from the days rushing around. If we have children often they receive less and less of our time. Again the word time keeps creeping up.

Today I would like to challenge you to sit down and make a list of the many things you would like to have in your life. Make another list with all the things you have to do each day and take a close look at your priorities. Even if money is there, how much time do you have left spending it with your family, your friends?
Time seems to be slipping away from us constantly. If you are an Internet Gaming fan play one of those timed matching games some times. Really play it in earnest and notice how as the levels become harder you seem to constantly run out of time.