Keeping my priorities straight

Hello World! – A classic line used as a dummy text or when testing a program.

It’s been a long time since I last visited friendster. That was the time when friendster is still using all shades of blue and the file size of each page are so big that it takes more than a minute before a page can load completely in a 31.2 kbps dial up connection – that was so frustrating. So I’ve decided to put friendster at the bottom of my hobby list.

Luckily, I was given a chance to have a faster connection at home. I can now do more online activities and be able to update my friendster :)

To start things up, I was planning to make my own website to be able to share information and some personal stuff to update my friends. Oh well! I just wish that I’ll be given a chance to make it happen this time. I’ve been working as a web developer for almost 4 years and was able come up with lots of design for my site but none of them was been published due to lack of time or maybe I wasn’t able to organize my activities properly, that’s why until now I haven’t got my own website. Pathetic me :)

This year, I wanted to make a difference. I wanted to keep my priorities straight. This may also apply to others.

"Action should culminate in wisdom" – Bhagavad Gita

Keeping a healthy balance in our lives is not an easy task. The world we live in is a busy place, filled with choices, obligations, and opportunities. Unless we set priorities in our lives and vigorously maintain them, we are likely to find ourselves hanging on by our fingertips, too involved with survival to affect positive change in the world around us.

Let’s take time to consciously list our obligations and activities, and we should not hesitate to put them down on paper. We should be as specific as possible. Then we should honestly and thoughtfully estimate how much time and effort we will be devoting to each. This exercise may cause us to see that we’re giving less attention to those items that should be most important. We only have one life to live; make it count.

"It's ever wise to prioritize."