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August 23, 2005
Priorities
Just when a person thinks their priorities are straight, it all falls apart. As I was wrapping up at the bike shop tonight at 9pm, I kept thinking about something my wife said earlier in the day. I'm spending a lot of time working with the bike shop. So that means I'm not spending enough time at home. It's not hard to understand 'why' I'm doing the things I'm doing, just hard to understand where the balance is going to come from. It seems that everything I get involved in, I really get involved in and go all out. Just when I thought I was slacking off and not doing enough training for bike racing, my wife tells me that I'm spending too much time exercising and that it's 'excessive.' Or probably another good term would be 'obsessive.' It's true, I do get heavily involved in the things I am doing, which tends to make it a higher priority than everything else. We are all faced with limited time, ability and resources. So it becomes a matter of priorities. I'm not sure I have this figured out yet. I do know that once I see a problem it's very hard for me to turn my back on it, even if it means personal sacrifices. Learning healthy prioritizing is a good goal. I have to keep working on it
Posted by carl1236 at August 23, 2005 09:54 PM | Attitude
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This is a tough one. I find that when I'm trying to concentrate on one priority I want to turn everything else in my life completely off. The scary part is, I'm really good at just shutting it all out. I can not think about it, not worry about it, not even recognize it's there.
"It" can be things going on in my wife's life, repairs that need to be done on the house, my own health, talking with friends, eating dinner. I've heard it called hyper-focus.
Too often I think that's the *only* way to reach a goal. I need to work on this one a lot too.
Posted by: Tyson at August 24, 2005 09:23 PM
Ah, Hyper-focus. That's a good word for it. I'm really good at reaching goals I'm focused on too. Previous successes probably just reinforced my hyper-focus behaviors. We'll work on this together. haha. I cancelled my Saturday night plans to spend with my wife working on house projects.
I'm realizing more and more that for proper balance in life I need to take breaks from things and find smarter ways of working. One of the best ways and hardest is to get other people involved in working on things.
Thanks for the comments Tyson. Let's talk more about this sometime.
Posted by: John at August 24, 2005 10:56 PM