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Prioritize

-- Time and energy for family relationships

-- Time and energy for personal life among friends and community

-- Time and energy for self

-- Time and energy for work and career development

Like any list, it would be nice to have it all. The question is, how? How can anyone have time and energy for everything? Amazingly, some few people seem to get it right. They organize and prioritize their lives so that each of the above areas is frequently reinforced by other areas rather than in conflict. In this way, they are satisfying more than one priority at any one time. They get to double dip and sometimes triple dip.

How can you double dip? Prioritizing means more than just ordering a list. So, while the word priority in a narrow sense is an indication of items arranged in sequence of time, a more general meaning connotes understanding the items that are to be arranged. What is involved with career development? How many relationships are there in a family? And then, of course, what do those pieces of family, or community, or self share with career development?

Certainly the golf courses of this world see enough business transacted along their fairways to offer testament for the virtues of multitasking. It's a pretty good day if you can get some exercise, enjoy companionship, and close a sales order all in one afternoon. The trick for career development is to figure how many different ways the various pieces of your life might reinforce each other rather than conflict. Car-pooling can be social. Pro bono work can be a learning experience while providing involvement with community affairs. Hobbies can provide skills that become useful at work. In the end you still have to prioritize the list. If you have considered synergies among the elements, sequencing becomes easier.

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