A person realized in society always has a goal. Such a person constantly evaluates whether this or that behavior leads him to the goal. They say of such personalities: "He sets priorities in life well." What does it mean? A clear understanding of what is important and what is secondary.
Mandatory spending
In the day only 24 hours. Some types of work can be accelerated by gaining time, but there are always reasonable limits for such a “squeeze”. Here the situation is the same as in an economy with needs: resources are limited, but you want everything to infinity. So it is here: a person wants a lot, but very little time. You can’t get anywhere from spending time on sleep, communication, and eating. For women, the problem of losing time on cooking is still relevant. For many of them, family is their priority.
Refuse - the choice of the strong
Therefore, a successful person is not one who does a lot, but one who acts rationally and flexibly, first and foremost refusing one or another activity. Yes, success comes to those who understand that the priority is to give up a lot, often from pleasant to unpleasant. You will not sit and read a detective story if your priority is making money (an exception is if you are an author of detective stories studying the handwriting of other authors for future sales). That is, you must consciously abandon one activity in favor of another, which is not always pleasant.
Wanting money is fine
Why is money a priority for many people? Which, incidentally, is quite normal. Money is an opportunity to protect oneself and loved ones, to acquire funds for solving various life tasks and aspirations. Only mentally undeveloped and mentally ill people have no problems. And therefore, healthy for the sake of money it is worth working and trying, because they give flexibility, freedom of maneuver. The poor man is constantly in the grip of the choice of "either-or." Poor people bring more pleasure to shopping, but such joys rarely pass away. American scientists have found that money affects the level of happiness. Most happy are people who earn twice as much as average income. The greater wealth of joy no longer adds. But people poorer than double income also rarely experience happiness. So all the same, it turns out that money is a “luck-forming” factor.
Like a foreign war
Priority is the main direction of activity, that which a person recognizes as the priority in his life. It is easy to guess that a person can be happy only if his priorities coincide with values. Often in childhood, “right desires” are imposed on the child. He has to comply with those priorities that are “alien” to him. This is the problem of “weak-willed” and “lazy” people. A person can force himself to temporarily apply force, but his whole life cannot be raped. Therefore, if you are accused of laziness, feel free to ignore. It just means that you are not meeting someone’s expectations.
Priorities may be at a higher level. This concept is used in various sciences - from computer science to sociology. For example, “social policy priorities” are what the state considers the most important for the social protection of its citizens.
