Priority

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Give priority to someone’s demand, hardship, basic request or want. We have heard the mantra: “Prioritize! Rank! Order! Line up what’s first, next, last!” 

We find prioritizing and serving greatest needs, then attending to least items in the home, at the workplace, on the road, and mostly on our mind when we’re prompted with multifaceted expectations, and when we’re swamped with tasks that require responses.  Priority demands time: right away, right now, from all of us.  We find it in situations and places of value and significance.  We especially act on a priority task when neglect of it has dire consequences.  Priority commands our instant concentration and awareness. 

We prioritize!  We deal with something that’s most important first.  We list several things to act upon and solve problems in order of magnitude, difficulty and substance.   There’s indeed a throng of priorities in general life that we never-ever take for granted – those emergencies for example.

An emergency - a matter of life and death, takes priority.  Life-threatening situations come first and foremost.  A blood transfusion or a surgical operation to ward off complications in life-saving is by all means requiring prime attention.  A house on fire that may spread and collapse from onset needs quick-thinking action from firefighters.  A drowning child or adult entails attention from someone familiar with treacherous water saving-systems and victim resuscitation.  A search and rescue alert for a missing person and his/her predator/abductor necessitates collaborative prioritization of action and plan from the police, investigators and family of an alleged victim.

What measures do we use in dealing with urgent actions to take, and problems to solve? Calming one’s nerves and anxiety comes to mind.  Panic has no place and it is by all counts detrimental.  Without mind presence we could get overwhelmed … even frustrated.  Our mind must decide to clear up all communication lines between brain, hand and feet.  In problem solving situations, we involve and insist on doing what brings a logical and positive result first.  We look at what ground to cover that’s easy enough to manage and complete.  We sort, plan, then conquer a segment of the problem one at a time until a pattern of next steps become lucid enough to tackle.  Without a calm mind and a problem-solving strategy, we easily could fall apart.

We are called on to prioritize our finances, lest we get economically ruined.  We are summoned to prioritize our goals and objectives in life so that we could meet them one at a time until all are met and enjoyed.  We are invited to prioritize our time spent on things and people that matter to us so we could rejuvenate and head out stronger than ever the second time around.   Prioritizing raises our hope for things we dream about accomplishing.  It keeps us grounded, leveled, and clear headed in our attempt at constructing, deconstructing and reconstructing daily life.  It advances our personal causes and our quests!

Need I say more?  Go, and prioritize something!