In order of priority:

1. Family
2. Work
3. Finances
4. School
5. Household
6. Fitness
7. Me

In order to prioritize my family, I need to spend quality time with them. This is hampered to a large extent by #2. So I schedule vacation time, which requires extra focus on #3. Thrown into the mix is a doubling-up on classes, which takes away from #1 in the form of homework (I'll have to spend all day at the library this Saturday if I'm to have any hope at all of catching up). The maintenance of #5 starts to slip ("Laura, do I have any clean underwear?"), which requires focused time and energy cleaning, doing laundry, grocery shopping... impacting #1 and #3 and #4. My time and energy is limited to such an extent that, during the week, I'm more inclined to want to eat out. Goodbye, #3 - and #6. With all this crap going on, #6 is hardly ever even thought of, let alone accomplished. Which impacts how I feel about #7. Meanwhile #1 is fussing about being ignored, and #2 is jam-packed all day long with work-related tasks and personal stuff (balancing checkbook, making appointments, etc.) so that I barely have time to eat, which should positively effect #6 except that it isn't, really. Because of all the busy-work during the day, I can't use my lunch hour to deal with #4, which necessitates that I do it at home in the evening, which impacts on #1 and #5 and #6. And round we go again.

There is no time, absolutely none, for #7.

Posted by Laura on Wednesday, June 08, 2005 at 11:24 AM | Permalink