Priorities

“Success is only another form of failure if we forget where our priorities should be.”

–     Harry Lloyd, British actor (b. 1983)

So, it takes a 30-year-old actor to set the perspective?

No.

Sometimes it takes a health scare.  A death in the family.  A setback or a crisis.  Sometimes it takes a 2 x 4 to the side of the head to remind us of what we’ve known all along.

The important stuff is always important.

The urgent stuff is almost never important.

And, while there will be other jobs, homes, cars, concerts, flights or golf games, there will likely only be one real family, one real Faith, one real life.

Difference makers find a way to stay on course, more often than not, and they find a way to stray less dramatically and for less time than others.

Difference makers always know the priorities — even if they don’t always honor them, because knowing what they are is the only way we can get back to them.