Juggling Priorities

A friend of mine sent me an email and asked how I was doing; work, church, life? My reply, “It is all juggling act right now trying to keep all the plates spinning at the same time and not let anything fall and break”. I’m sure I’m not the only one with a lot of things that we are trying to keep spinning in our lives. It is all about priorities. God, husband, family, church, friends, work are the priorities in my life. The problem is that under each one of these there are sub priorities.

Take work for example, I previously posted, we are short two people that do what I do and that means I have more responsibilities for a ‘short time’. With those responsibilities come many priorities and so many things that need to be done I don’t dare list them all. I am by nature a list maker and like to work from a list so I can see what is being accomplished. Right now I can’t even get myself to make a list, any list I make would be so long I would just shut down and not be able to accomplish anything. I usually have many tasks going on at once, multi-tasking. Not now, my mode of operation is to figure out what is the Top Priority and work on it until it is finished, ignoring the rest. When I am done with that priority, I figure out what the Top Priority is now and attach that. You see one of the problems is that the Top Priority can change from day to day and even hour to hour. This seems to be working, but I don’t dare to think about what isn’t getting done.

As long as I keep my priorities in order and in balance it will all workout and not too many dishes will get broken. Life is anything but dull right now.