Happy New Year! So here we are on the New Year, New You merry-go-round again (or: “You…but better”).  Yesterday morning I was thinking about how to deal with the “too much to do, too little time syndrome” that impacts most of us, and these 3 words came to me: WHAT. REALLY. MATTERS.
What really matters" When you cut out the fluff, abandon the non-essentials and focus on who and what you really care about, you not only lighten your load, you buy yourself more time.
One of the best bits of advice I read recently was “Focus on what’s important rather than what’s urgent”.  At first it sounds so counter-intuitive. But. Visiting an elderly neighbour who lives alone is “important. Baking a cake for tea isn’t urgent (even if you do have 4 people coming at 3pm – buy one, dole out the biscuits, or whatever). Neither is finding a new pair of shoes for Saturday night (what have you worn till now")  Renewing your passport is important (especially if you’re travelling later in the year)…collecting stuff from the dry cleaner’s probably isn’t that urgent. What matters is LIFE. How we affect those around us. What legacy will we leave" What really matters is those small, important gestures…like giving your gloves to a refugee on the bus on freezing New Year’s Eve, a little chat with an old lady in the supermarket checkout line, checking in with someone who’s...