Priorities

I was thinking about priorities. There was a podcast wherein they discussed how much work there is out there to be done. Basically if you have a worker, we have the work for em. I think about my folks at work. They are overwhelmed with work. They have to prioritize. 

Then I also think about that gal who came to work a few weeks back, new on the job. By the middle of the morning she had her head down on the desk bored and exhausted. She looked up and said, “is there any room for advancement at this job?” All of my advancement, and the advancement I promote comes by way of more work. Her words should have been, “anything I can help with?” Overload yourself with work, and the advancement will come. 

Sorry for the aside, but back to the topic . . . Priorities and the need to prioritize.

I remember working with one gal, and she always wanted more help and more to do. I constantly said, here’s what you need to do. When it came down to it, she always, eventually, came back to she had other priorities. 

You can tell how important you are, . . . Or the work is. . . . To someone by how they prioritize things. Sure families should come first, but is that then your only priority? I look at my life . . . I have two kiddos at home, one of whom needs to be ubered all over the dang place to basketball games, swimming meets, music lessons, etc. The other has band performances, and contests all over the city. I have a wife who has a full time job, half of the time she is in Austin for work, making me a single parent. I have my own full time job that is an hour long commute away. I am also in school for my PhD. No one needs to tell me they’re too busy. I know busy. There are very few people who I believe are “too busy” compared to me. 

Some people believe they’re too busy, then you look at their lives. Do they have that full time job? Spouse who works out of town? Two kiddos at home? Are they going to school for a PhD? Any of those? Any at all? Maybe even one of those? If not, if you don’t have any or all of those things, then you’re not too busy . . . You just can’t prioritize . . . Or you don’t want to prioritize. Too busy should never be an excuse. 

Again, you can tell what’s important to people by what and how they prioritize.