While waiting in the garage supervisor’s office this morning for my car to be repaired, I wrote, and wrote, and wrote. I decided to focus on priorities in my life and work, and in the process rediscovered some things that help me on the way.
Photograph: Hue of the City - painting from Ubud, Bali. I love this painting very much.
1. Doing creative things from a spiritual base
2. Advising others ahead with big-picture steps in my area of work
3. Being a life coach (for friends and through writing)
4. Providing good support to my kids (love, advice, and money)
5. Having a network of friends and a loving partner/soulmate (buyers)
And a few more
1. Living as Zorba the Buddha
2. Living actively and passionately
3. Keeping healthy
4. Seeing new places, shaking me up
5. Living in Asia, for sure
6. Music, play, listen, share, do together
7. Be affluent enough to support these
8. Make money work for good purposes and multiply
9. Invest in myself first, with love and care, and with much giving
10. Be whole, balanced, growing daily, in the Tao.
Now how can I start applying the Pareto principle of 80/20 to find the ones that matter most, that I should concentrate on to enrich my life? I cleared my mind, reflected, and let my inner voice speak out of stillness. I am happy with what came out:
Priorities for my Life
1. Cultivate strength and creativity. Spend holy time every day. Connect and listen to my inner voice. Exercise. Meditate. Light a candle.
2. Show up and write. Have a writing period every day, for journal and/or blog. Write more on every occasion, for life and work. Focus on improving my writing. Use opportunities to publish as often as possible.
3. Make money grow. Value money more. Reduce spending. Save consistently. Invest carefully. Enjoy investing in valuable things. Go for quality over quantity.
4. Connect with people. Reach out more. Don’t be by myself too much (leads to negativity). Build good connections, friendships. Focus on giving and receiving. Build partnerships. Enjoy meeting people, even when tired.
5. Show and enjoy love. Connect with the Universe and other people so that love can circulate, and grow in me. Cultivate and show positive spirit. Enjoy receiving love appropriately. Build a buyer’s love relationship with someone special.
Priorities for my Work
1. Prioritize and complete. Writing down objectives and tasks clearly and review daily, focus on good planning, position and strength.
2. Develop knowledge. Focusing on knowledge contributions: large (thesis) and small, and delegated ones, and link with my knowledge management colleague more.
3. Mobilize funds. Expand the fund for my area of work to allow more to happen, keep enough control for my own activities to be financed, and delegate the rest.
4. Engage and delegate. Delegate by engaging more and better people, a pool of specialists, good networks, and let them do the work.
5. Lead positively. Start and do everything with positive spirit, kindness, and focus on growth and solutions.
Healthy things that help me
1. Standing up for myself. Advertise strengths, be assertive confidently and positively.
2. Traveling regularly. Enjoy travel and create nice spaces and moments everywhere.
3. Starting something new. Reach out, be stimulated, and leave the old behind.
4. Expanding and delegating. Always let things multiply but not weigh me down.
5. Making things happen. Doing lots of things without owning, maintaining privacy.
6. Live the present moment. Make the best of every moment, enjoy the power of Now.
7. Laugh and smile a lot. Let happiness make the world a better place for me and others.
8. Drink water often. Use the wonder medicine to keep life’s fountain flowing.
Reading back, I realize how human I am. Many of these might apply to other people as well. That is good news to me. I can learn from others, read more books and blogs. But setting personal priorities is key to getting results, in life and in work. I got a good deal closer to that this morning.
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