When I started this set of blogs for this week, I am finishing up Darren Hardy’s book called The Compound Effect.  Making simple changes in our life that compounds and takes our lives, over time, for either the good or the bad.

Before I started the book, I made a simple change in life that I believe will have a drastic improvement with my family.  As I told my youngest who is working with me on it, she got me out of my imposed “retirement” from it.  It was not a priority when I did it the first 2 times due to family obligations, but I am hoping to finish it this time with her help.  Plus, it gives me something to bond with her on.

Our actions show what priorities are in our life.  We state what our priorities are, we believe what we state, but our actions must go along with those priorities.  If our actions do not follow, we waste our time, and we only have 86,400 seconds to a day.

There is nothing wrong with people having different priorities.  Co-workers will often have a different set of priorities than you on projects.  While one works on the data storage, another will work on the interface with the data.  Combining those priorities makes the project successful.

Other times, a co-worker will state their priority but will not take action.  At this point, they are wasting the team’s time.  Delivery of the finished product or goal cannot be delivered when priorities differ vastly.

So take time to utilize your 86,400 seconds wisely.  Set your priorities.  Manage your time.  Let your actions follow your priorities.