We live in an instant world. There’s instant coffee, instant tea, instant money, instant cooking, instant messages-the list goes on endlessly. Technology provides answers faster than one can think of questions. We’re all running 90 miles an hour in a 30 mph zone. It’s rush, rush, rush in our little whirlwind of activity.

Priorities are essential in both directing your efforts and conserving your time. Here’s one of my favorite illustrations. You’re invited to sit on a chair with only three legs; the leg on the right front corner is missing. You could balance yourself on that chair, but it would be impossible to lean back, relax and enjoy its comforts. The chair must have four legs of equal length to provide those benefits. Each leg is vital to support its corner of the chair. And so it is with each leg of your life. You must put as much priority into developing good family relationships as you do into advancing your career or building a good physical body. The four legs on your life’s chair are:

• Financial (Work)   
• Social  (Leisure)
• Physical (Activities)
• Educational (Development)

If one leg is out of balance, you will not be comfortable. The phrase that fully describes success is uncomfortably comfortable.
           
Take a moment to reflect on those words and how they fit your current lifestyle. Isn’t comfort what you’re really seeking when you strive for success? To be comfortable in every phase of life-in career and finances, in the social, physical, spiritual and educational realms-should be the goal of every person. Yet, we should be uncomfortable enough in our present comfort state to improve and strive for higher goals. The priority you place on each area will determine your comfort zone.
          
Examine your calendar; study each activity and the time allotted each day. Are you playing a round of golf when you should be attending Jimmy’s Little League game? Is it more important to watch television than to read a good book or have a conversation with your spouse? There’s nothing wrong with playing golf, watching worthwhile TV or any other activity as long as the proper priority is applied. Be 100 percent Dad/Mom while you’re doing kids’ stuff. Be 100 percent husband/wife with your spouse. Be 100 percent in whatever you are doing at the moment.
        
“We all sorely complain of the shortness of time and yet, we have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few and acting as though there would be no end to them.”

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