Who's on First?

Life is a busy place. Hopefully you have a routine to handle all your busy-ness and ensure that everything is prioritized and all of the most important things get done during the course of a day. By the way….What are your priorities?

If you have a thousand things to do and places to be and things to accomplish and social networking sights to update...what gets your primary attention? I'd like you to give some thought to what you choose to put first. I find it beneficial to my life and my business to choose people and the IRS….in that order. If either one are tugging on my sleeve, that gets prioritized.

Prioritizing human being-ness is critical to your vitality and the vitality of your relationships. Genuine interaction with real people is what genuine, real life is about (good, bad, happy or sad). On any given day if I have a choice of looking someone in the eye, holding a hand, or sitting down knee to knee with a person to offer or receive guidance or reassurance, that will always be my first choice. What's your first choice? Do you make it consciously?

If having an on-line presence is part of your social or business strategy, you may feel the computer beckoning to you even when you know that you have more important issues to deal with. What happens if you don’t Tweet all day? What happens if you don’t post a blog post for a week? Will you suffer unrecoverable losses? Will the whole world forget about you in the course of a few days? Immediately run over to un-follow you? Hardly. Those who are truly interested in you and what you have to offer will stick around to see what’s next. Even if it’s just a chirp or a post to say that you’re busy with life but will return shortly.

The internet is terrific. The internet has allowed people and businesses to connect, serve and prosper worldwide. What’s most important, though, is tending to the things that are truly important to your life on any given day. If it takes you away from your virtual social connections or marketing strategy, don’t panic. Most of the world will still be waiting outside your virtual door….maybe even with anticipation. My two thoughts for today:

1). The people with whom you can share direct eye contact ~ be they personal relationships, business associates, or customers ~ should have the highest ranking on your priority list every single day.

2). How can I miss you if you never go away? (not applicable to the IRS)