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July 24, 2023,
When you are born, you have one major priority.
That is to survive. True?
Fortunately over time, our priorities slowly change and become less, life or death, so to speak.
Mercifully.
Sometimes. Depending upon where you live.
For some, it appears the Coronavirus is a distant memory.
The recent pandemic showed us what a crisis can do to our priorities, as a nation and global community.
The team at worldometers.info educated that as of April 22, 2020, there are currently 2,557,181 people who have been infected by the coronavirus.
That was then.
That figure changed the priorities for individuals certainly, but nations, as well.
As of July 6, 2023, the figures have changed. The same team reports, “Globally, over 885 000 new cases and over 4900 deaths were reported in the last 28 days (5 June to 2 July 2023).”
So, while the world still has a watchful eye, the priorities of survival have changed.
Recently, someone in our community called a pharmacy, inquiring about the Covid vaccine and the pharmacist related they do not carry the vaccine anymore because not enough people were coming in to get vaccinated.
Apparently, for many, no longer a priority.
Depending upon where we are in life, our priorities may change.
How can we determine what they might be? Maybe even should be?
Sometimes it can be very confusing.
Let’s get some advice. We greatly appreciate the bookstore.
Managing Your Priorities from Start to Success Hardcover – April 1, 1996
By William J. Bond (Author)
“According to author William J. Bond, a priority is a goal that takes precedence over all other goals. Prioritizing will not only help you in your job or career, but in all facets of life. Success ultimately results from carefully selecting your priorities and directing your activities to meet them on a daily basis.
Managing Your Priorities from Start to Success will teach you how to prioritize by combining a multitude of management abilities – such as time management and organizational skills – and matching them to the particular objective you are working to achieve.
Filled with useful, practical information and techniques in an easy-to-read, straightforward format, Managing Your Priorities from Start to Success focuses on fundamental skills and problem areas, revealing how to define a priority; learn the valuable step-by-step priority process; discover the rules to manage your priorities and move ahead at work; and use techniques and tips to make priority management key to your successful career.”
That is one informative approach. Managing your priorities to achieve success.
The focus there appears to be career and money oriented.
Makes perfect sense.
Then, there are simpler but as important priorities. Maybe more so.
Time to reflect.
We know of someone in our circle who explained to us that when her family was poor, they did everything together and were extremely close. They had large gatherings with their relatives during every holiday and had a great time. Simple pleasures were cherished.
Their traditions were so special and brought them closer together.
Then, once her parents got promotions and began to make more money, they spent far less time together. They spent less time with their relatives too.
At one point, she and her parents only saw each other maybe once or twice a year.
Her relatives? Virtually never.
Very true story.
And a sad one.
Both of her parents have now passed.
Where are you at with that?
Is maintaining close ties with your family a priority? If not, shouldn’t it be?
A timeless movie, that has been made more than once, speaks beautifully to that. Originals are classics for a reason.
The Parent Trap is a 1961 American romantic comedy film written and directed by David Swift.
It stars Hayley Mills (in a dual role) as a pair of teenage twins plotting to reunite their divorced parents by switching places with each other.
Maureen O’Hara, and Brian Keith play the parents.
Although the plot is very close to that of the 1945 film Twice Blessed, The Parent Trap is based on the 1949 book Lisa and Lottie, written by Erich Kästner.
Some of us are old enough to have seen the original.
At the theaters.
Here is the storyline.
Teenagers Sharon McKendrick and Susan Evers meet at Miss Inch’s Summer Camp for Girls.
Their identical appearance causes jealousy, resentment, and a rivalry in which they continually get each other into trouble and disrupt camp activities.
As punishment, they must spend the remainder of the camp season rooming and dining together in isolation. Big lesson there.
They overcome their mutual dislike when they discover that they are identical twin sisters, whom their parents Mitch Evers and Maggie McKendrick separated upon divorcing shortly after their birth. Eager to meet the parents from whom they were separated, they decide to switch places, cut their hair identically, and coach each other on their lives.
The girls scheme to reunite their parents by recreating Maggie and Mitch’s first date.
That is when the real fun begins.
We loved this film.
Produced by Walt Disney Productions, The Parent Trap was released on June 21, 1961, by Buena Vista Distribution. It grossed $25.1 million at the box office and was nominated for two Academy Awards.
Nice priorities. Successful results.
Priorities truly are not in stone and during extremely bad times, shouldn’t that experience teach us much about what should be our priorities in good times?
Being kind to your neighbor.
Spending time with your family members.
Having long conversations with your loved ones.
Contributing to your community or society in a positive way.
Doing whatever you can to keep your family together, especially if you have children?
Certainly, on a daily, weekly and monthly basis, our “must do” priorities are constantly changing and shifting. From health related, financial focus, security measures and child achievement, there are times when “must do” priorities take center stage.
Having said that, in terms of human relations and family, throughout all of those things, wouldn’t you agree that we should never lose sight of what should always be a priority?
Before they or we pass on.
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