Monday, May 22, 2017

The most important job and who decides what it is

Moment to moment, each of us has only one most important job to do.
We decide what it is: that one most important job is, consciously or not, one of our most frequent choices.  It is the essence of our priorities.
Is our most important job a general one, such taking care of others, or of ourselves?  
Is it a specific job such as doing a particular thing well, or taking full advantage of an opportunity?
How often, and when, and why does our most important job change?
On what basis do we choose our most important job, moment to moment?  Fear?  Need?  Getting what we can when we can?  Yearning?  Whim?  Laziness?  Self pity?  Self care?  Growth?  Fidelity to our values?

What happens when we pay attention to whether and how our choices are consistent with our most important job?