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What is Your "Prority"?

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If you don't prioritize your life, someone else will. The word "priority" came into the English language in the 1400s.  It was singular and remained so for 500 years.  Not until the 1990s did it start to be used in the plural.   We literally changed the meaning and use of the word to illogically use it as plural which takes the meaning of priority and throws it right out of the window!  You cannot have multiple priorities.  Something is a priority or it is not.   When you have multiple priorities none of them are a priority at all  For a long time in my life, I was married, running a marketing company, buying and managing real estate, and to make things even more sticky, went out and purchased and operated a hair salon.   As you can probably imagine my efforts were not ever focused in one place and therefore they all suffered.  I lost my marriage, and my business partner, which resulted in more and more fallout across the boa...

Why Your Perspective of Time is Important

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"An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth" --Bonnie Friedman Going through cancer and now in the middle of my life, I recognized how precious time is  Hopefully not too late.  It is our most important asset and one that is finite and cannot be bought.  If you have read my other posts about when I was in the hospital dying, I prayed only for more time.  Not money, not love, or anything else in the world.  This surprised me more than it should have.. I would guess most people close to death would pray to escape it, but at the core, what they are all really wishing for is more time.  What they want the time for might vary, but at the end of the day, we all want more of it.   If we were to be justified in our greed for anything, I suppose that it would be ... continue reading