The Dynamic Life - Prioritizing

I had a great conversation with a man today that made me think a bit, in a very good way. We were chatting about work and life balance. Without question, my life is busy. Between a full time career with a major company that has me supporting a region Canada Wide, Writing both personally and professionally, and my other commitments, including family, friends and personal, any outsider might ask, how do you have time to date?

Just a year ago, my life wasn’t terribly different than it is today. I was living in the city. Managing an incredible social circle, career, and dating someone who had stolen my heart. Life really is a fine balance, it comes down to one thing, prioritizing.

If you had $100 in your pocket to spend, you would have to make a choice. It will only go so far, yet, a wise person can find creative ways to stretch that far beyond what most see at face value. Life is no different. There are 24 hours in a day. Most of us could use about 36 hours and still not tackle half of what we want. Yet, there are people who seem to have it all and still find time. It’s all about choices. 

In any given moment, we have the choice - that choice offers the opportunity to gain something at the sacrifice of something else. I can choose to spend my time alone, and sacrifice time with someone else. I can choose to commit to an event on a future weekend, and sacrifice not being able to do something else that might pop up. However, there’s also the sacrifice that we don’t commit to something and nothing else comes up.

When you follow your heart, prioritizing becomes fairly simple. When you are happy, your focus shifts to the things that make you happy. When I was in love, I would give up many things, with a few exceptions of course, to make time in my life for that person.

I have come to enjoy a life without hard lines. It leaves more room for amazing things to come and old things to go. Change is life. You can flow with it, or you can swim upstream. Yet another choice. Who you are today does not define who you are in the future. Nothing about today is the same as yesterday. 

I responded to his question about how I had time to date by simply saying, “my priorities change with the dynamics of my life. Today, I only have me to focus on. Tomorrow, that could be different.”