Category: Priorities

Proof of Life

Life isn't about accumulating money, toys, degrees, or status. Life is about making someone else's life better because you lived.

— JMeyer —

Life isn’t about accumulating money, toys, degrees, or status. Life is about making someone else’s life better because you lived.

Conclusion

To explore what it would mean to live fully...to be sensually alive and to live passionately on purpose...I have to drop my preconceived ideas of who and what I am.

— Dawna Markova —

To explore what it would mean to live fully…to be sensually alive and to live passionately on purpose…I have to drop my preconceived ideas of who and what I am.  ~Dawna Markova What an amazing run this has been! For the past five months we’ve been looking at what it takes to create and live…

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Know Yourself

When you know yourself you are empowered. When you accept yourself you are invincible.

— Tina Lifford —

  I am a big dreamer and love to help people chase their dreams but part of my role in being a coach is to help my clients achieve their dreams in a balanced and healthy manner. Our world is saturated with people chasing the next shiny object.  My goal is to help people create…

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Priorities & The Main Thing

I deeply believe that if we attend to all other duties and responsibilities in life and neglect the family it would be analogous to straightening deck chairs on the Titanic.

— Stephan Covey —

  Continued from March 3rd… I can remember seeing my son’s basketball schedule for the 2005-2006 season and was pretty pumped as they were going to play Standford at Stanford in December.  I had a friend with a similar business as mine located near Stanford.  He was doing some cutting edge things and I had…

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Priorities & The Main Thing

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

— Stephan Covey —

The year is 2005.  I’m now eighteen years sober which means I’m forty-six years old. My life is pretty much on track.  My oldest is in college living his dream as a Division I college basketball player.  My youngest is chasing her dream of playing Division I college basketball.  Jordan is stable and Lori and…

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Priorities-More 1st Things 1st

There are those who talk a great game about their priorities and there are those who live them.

— JJM —

  Listing our priorities and living them are not easy. I can remember helping a family who was in a total mess because of an addiction problem the husband/dad was struggling with. I met with the husband/dad and he said to me, “Jay I would take a bullet for anyone in my family but I…

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Priorities & 1st Things 1st

There are those who talk a great game about their priorities and there are those who live them.

— JJM —

  It’s late 1987 and my world is in utter chaos and ruin.  My addiction to opiates and other mind numbing chemicals finally got the best of me and only by the grace of God and a handful of people who loved me enough to muster up the courage to confront me head on, am…

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Priorities & Minimizing

The cost of a thing is the amount of life which is required to be exchanged for it.

— Henry David Thoreau —

  Naming and living our priorities help us maintain our focus on our purpose and dream. Naming and living our priorities creates alignment on our life playing field. Naming and living our priorities help us keep the main thing the main thing. Naming and living our priorities better enable us to identify time wasters and…

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