Image this scene:
You awake from a good night’s sleep and your first thought is, “ This is going to be a great day!” You arrive at school 10 minutes early, grab a cup of coffee and head for your desk. You are greeted with 5 voice mails, 22 emails, 2 teachers wanting help, and a student who missed school yesterday and wants you to reteach all the material just for him. This scene could happen to any teacher and parts of it happen to each one of us every day. Urgent stuff screaming at us from all directions, all demanding time, effort and response immediately.
It’s a circular problem or in programming what we call an infinite or endless loop:
Because we don’t know what is really important to us, everything seems important.
Because everything seems important,
We have to do everything.
Other people, unfortunately, see us doing everything, so they expect us to do everything.
Doing everything keeps us so busy, so ...
We don’t have time to think about, what is really important to us
Figuring out priorities is a challenge. More coming ... come back to read - Big Rocks First ......
Have a blessed day and remember, urgent things aren't always important.
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