Each and every day we are bombarded with things that must be done. We have demands placed on us by our own physical needs and our families, as well as all our wants and desires. This expands to include our friends, our job, society, and even our government. So many demands on our time how do we even find time to accomplish anything beyond our daily tasks. Some of us don't, some of us are constantly placing those things that aren't necessary to the bottom of our list and they will never make it to the top even if they are important for our sanity.
Those things need to make it to the top and we must make them a priority. I once saw an object lesson done, where our life was represented by a jar and then there were three large rocks that were those things that are important for our sanity, we will call them fundamental needs. Then there was rice, tiny little grains of rice that represented all the hundreds of things we must do each day to simply survive and satisfy those we answer to. If we place the rice in first, there is no room for the rocks they don't fit, but if we place the rocks in first the rice slips in nicely around them and we can fit them all in our daily life.
If we remember to always put our fundamental needs first, meditation (prayer), enrichment, etc., we will find that all those other things will slip in nicely around the things that matter the most. If we do not begin putting those things first we are only going to wear ourselves down faster than if we do.
I wish I had learned this lesson fifty years ago.
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