PRIORITY

Your priorities are what you do each day, the small tasks that move forward the second and minute hands on the clock: these circadian endeavors are your musts. Everything else is simply a should. You have the same amount of time as everyone else who has ever created a masterpiece. We all have the same twenty-four hours in a day. So “I don’t have time to write” really means “writing isn’t a priority.”

                                            - Joshua Fields Millburn

A few years back, Joshua Millburn, along with his friend, Ryan Nicodemus, started a blog, podcast, and movement called "The Minimalists". They seek to get to the heart of things that matter in life and clear away all of the clutter.*

Joshua also teaches writing and his lessons are succinct and insightful.

When I saw the quote above, it struck me that what he says about writing is true about anything.

Take a second look at that quote and remove the word 'writing':

 "I don't have time to ___________" really means "__________ isn't a priority." 

What would you put in that blank?

• Prayer?
• Bible Study?
• Spending quality time with my spouse? My kids?
• Exercise?
• What?

We want to believe we have a time problem ...

It's hard to admit we have a prioritization problem. 

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*Check out theminimalists.com ... when you have the time.