{"id":2109,"date":"2015-08-10T05:51:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T13:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=2109"},"modified":"2015-08-11T05:54:04","modified_gmt":"2015-08-11T13:54:04","slug":"prioritizing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=2109","title":{"rendered":"Prioritizing"},"content":{"rendered":"

My guardian angels are reminding me through many channels that I\u2019m gonna die. My days are numbered. Maybe 4, maybe 4,000, maybe 40,000. So consequently\u2014there\u2019s a word I haven\u2019t used for a good long while\u2014I need to prioritize<\/em>. In other words, what\u2019s my bucket list? Not easy, but not that hard, either.<\/p>\n

First, keep on keepin\u2019 on, daily tasks, lovin\u2019 Allee, doing as I did today\u2014gave blood (I\u2019ve been doing that every several months for many years!); going to the chiropractor (about once a year on average\u2014though mainstream medicine doesn\u2019t accept chiropractors\u2014; shopping at the grocery; etc. Second, keepin\u2019 on with family and friends, being part of the human community, singin\u2019, dancin\u2019, walkin\u2019, bloggin\u2019\u2014that\u2019s one thing they didn\u2019t do in the olden days.<\/p>\n

Then this morning a painful low-grade reckoning: Some things that are sort-of-priorities are not in fact high priorities, and guess what: Now\u2019s the time to recognize that! Awww, man! There are things that I do that I sort of care about and other things I care about more and sometimes the sort-of short term outweighs the more important but I\u2019ll get around to it later. Later is running out on me!<\/p>\n

This is approaching me from many angles. There are people and places and activities that are second and third-tier priorities and several that are fourth tier but I treat them like first-tier when they are in my attention field. I\u2019m mushy-brained about prioritization, you see. I\u2019ll get around to it, and do it all. Yeah!<\/p>\n

I feel all virtuous about the many things I don\u2019t waste my precious time on: Television shows, fan magazines, following celebrities, traveling all the great places and seeing what there is to see. But I fall prey to pride and self-sacrifice: Those lower priority things are illusions, not sacrifices. No big loss. But what about when I sorta-kinda like something\u2014the middle range? Now we\u2019re wrestling with priorities.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll confess that I\u2019m not altogether ready to deal with all the implications here. They have to do with divesting, in a way, only of whole complexes and roles as well as \u201cstuff.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My guardian angels are reminding me through many channels that I\u2019m gonna die. My days are numbered. Maybe 4, maybe 4,000, maybe 40,000. So consequently\u2014there\u2019s a word I haven\u2019t used for a good long while\u2014I need to prioritize. In other words, what\u2019s my bucket list? Not easy, but not that hard, either. First, keep on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,35,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiographical","category-mind-spectrums","category-wisdom-ing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2110,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109\/revisions\/2110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}