Questions I'm asking myself to get to what is highest in priority:
- What's most important for my overall vision? (this can vary over time)
- Instead of focusing on what's most urgent for the week (I must see my doctor Wed., my driver's license must be renewed, my husband is sick and he needs medicine immediately...),
-What is most important, but doesn't seem urgent? (To be in touch with my spirit and my connection to what is holy, To get enough rest, good nutrition and exercise, To communicate honestly and connect with my family and those with whom I interact.)
- What is going to make me feel best about myself at the end of the week? To REALLY feel best...
If I'm good at getting the urgent things done, but poor at doing the important, but not urgent activities -- I don't feel that good about myself at the end of the week. Therefore, I'm sticking to the high importance, basic activities at this time. Somehow, I always seem to get urgent things done. But they never advance the cause. They allow me to survive -- at whatever level of survival I'm at. But I want to thrive and make more of a difference. I need to go back to basics and establish habits or "discipline" in fundamentals.
So without apologizing for how simple or basic they are, these are my two commitments for this week:
Spiritual Time Daily
Go to bed and get up on a regular schedule
There are more and different ways to come up with individualized "Less is More" commitments-- how do you make it work? I, for one, would like to hear about it. It is helpful to me and I bet for most us.
Keep pressing for your prizes!
Noel, I PRAISE you for keeping it simple. I know I started out really big with some of what I am setting out to do and continue to be humbled in my approach to KEEP IT SIMPLE!!! I keep narrowing it down, what is working, what is not, and just like you said.....what really makes me feel the best at the end of the day?!
ReplyDeleteYou will always be good at the "urgent" things, because you are responsible being, it's like some of those things are on auto-pilot, they just get done! But it is those that are a little more abstract and those that have a little more wiggle room in how you can CHOOSE!
One of the things that I have spoken of before on our PC Blog is the idea of a personal mission statement. For you Noel, these may be three or four sound disciplines in your life. Identify them and review them on a daily basis! That way with each decision you make throughout the day you have something to base it on. “Is this in alignment with my mission or not?” Make sense?!
I am still fine tuning mine and hopefully will be able to share at least parts of it soon!
Mandie,
ReplyDeleteThank you for such an insightful comment. That's all I can say right now, as I have to keep my commitment to get to bed on schedule. :-)
Wow.
ReplyDeleteThanks Noel...and thanks Mandie. I would hardly refer to Noel's commitments as "slacking off". The tone of her post tells me she is doing anything but. The fact that she is posting at all is telling!
The PC is about success. Grandiose commitments are doomed to failure. Just because you are using a "less is more" philosophy with your commitments doesn't mean you put everything else on hold.