Priority

 How often do you use the word “priority”?

And how do you decide what is a priority 

and what is… the other stuff?

"A brain cancer diagnosis at 26." 

"I learned that our time is really valuable. 

And not in the hustle culture sense that ‘time is money’. 

I learned that our time is really valuable 

because it is finite."

The singular "priority"

"The word ‘priority’ came into the English language in the 1400s. It was singular. 

It meant the very first or prior thing. 

It stayed singular for the next five hundred years.

Only in the 1900s did we pluralize the term and start talking about 'priorities'."

“Instead of saying, 

‘I don’t have time’ 

try saying, 

‘It’s not a priority’, 

and see how that feels.” 

—Laura Vanderkam, in the TED Talk, “How to gain control of your free time”

A priority mantra:

"The best way to eat an elephant is chunk by chunk." 

"It is easy to get overwhelmed with the projects I’m working on at any one time, while still battling thoughts that I am not doing enough, being enough. 

So, I live my life by lists: 

concentrating on the step ahead of me, 

ticking off micro-achievements, 

and celebrating them as I go along."

The main thing:

"The main thing is to keep the main thing 

the main thing."