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Prioritise such that you feel the impact yourself!

By Bamboo In The Wind

Priorities indicate our most immediate focus on getting something essential to us done. Time and again, we prioritize ourselves with non-essential and know about that only after feeling a vacuum, even after completing our tasks.

Vacuum felt after finishing supposedly vital work is a significant indicator of how we accumulate unimportant and irrelevant tasks driven by preferences that are often not our own. We run into this situation because of peer pressure. Choosing to do things defined by others as our priority and treating those as our own is the biggest mistake that starts it all.

There are things you do to live, and there are things you do for your liking. While workplaces force priorities upon us to make our living within the established work routine, we can find what we enjoy doing for our own sake. Making sure that you can express yourself for your own sake despite being surrounded by the limitations of the environment around us is a vital ability. It requires us to sense when we feel a vacuum and also when we feel fulfillment. 

Fulfillment often comes from tiny tasks which take little time. We are the only ones responsible for providing such fulfilling jobs to us! 

Spotting which nature of our participation boosts our energy to do more will define what types of engagements are essential for us. Making those the most critical priorities for our day helps us create the impact we care about.

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