Don't Stone Yourself

This week's workshops are all about prioritizing. Thinking about all the things we have to do in our lives and realizing that we have to make choices to get things done.

Bottom line, pick three priorities for your day and focus on them. They're the stones that go in the jam jar of your day and all the other minutia of your world can fall in to place around it.

But sometimes, even with your best intentions and planning, you can't get to one of that day's priorities.

What went wrong?

Maybe your car broke down. Maybe a friend or relative called and needed your support. Maybe it was the last day of your TEFL course and you couldn't keep your eyes open long enough to see the front door, let alone write a blog post.

I'll go out on a limb and say that maybe nothing went wrong. Maybe you simply decided to be flexible focus your energies elsewhere, on things that became more important to you as your day went on. Or maybe you just gave yourself a lesson in choosing more realistic priorities.

Don't get me wrong, I think it's really important to set your goals and put your energy towards small, daily accomplishments. Just make sure that your goals are for *you* as much as you can ... not for your boss or your boyfriend or your mother.

And if, for some reason, the occasional stone slips past, don't beat yourself up over it. Think out what you can do to make the next day's goals more achievable.

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