Priorities
Our greatest danger in life is in permitting the urgent things to crowd out the important
Charles Hummel
Use or Lose Your Marbles
Nothing shapes our attitudes more than focusing on our priorities, because when we move toward our reason for being, the result usually is happiness and peace of mind.
I recently read an article about a man who know how to keep a good perspective on his priorities. He called it his “theory of a thousand marbles”.
At age 55, he began to realize his weeks and his years were flying by. He figured that the average person lived to be 75, which gave him another twenty years, so with fifty-two weeks in a year that gave him approximately one thousand precious weekends left to enjoy with the people he loved most.
So he bought one thousand marbles, put them in a clear plastic container, and placed the container on a credenza in his office. Every Monday, he would take out one marble and throw it away.
He discovered that as the marbles diminished, he focused more on the most important aspects of life, and he observed, ”There’s nothing like watching your time here on earth run out to help get your priorities straight.”
From The Power of Attitude Founder of Successories, Marc Anderson P.93
Time in a Bottle
