A Quick Sunday Read and a bit about Priority
A Quick Sunday Read and a bit about Priority
A newsletter to tickle your thoughts and your words
Hello, Lovely,
Happy Mother’s Day to those who celebrate! It’s a particularly happy one today for us as we have two new mothers in our family celebrating their first Mother’s Day. My niece Dana, mama to Lincoln; and my niece-in-law Hannah, mama to Hudson. How joyous it has been bearing witness to their blossoming. They are wonderful, attentive, loving, and smart mothers.
My sister, a kind, loving, and present mom herself, and I are blessed to have a mother who walks in love and mothers her world with grace and a generous spirit and always makes us feel like a priority in her life.
If you are one of the many who find today difficult—for a myriad of reasons that only you know—I see you, I feel you and I wish you love.
As always, I would love to hear your thoughts.
A Quick Word - Words have power. Use them well.
This week's word: Priority
I found it interesting that this is the first word that popped into my head when I was noodling on a Mother’s Day theme for today’s Quick Read. The simple reason is that I’m blessed to have a mom who makes me feel I’m a priority.
The way she does so is with her presence and how she shows up, her sense of urgency when she frames her care, and how her entire being lights up with her family near her. It’s a palpable shift. And, she lets us know we’re a priority, she tells us with her words and actions.
Priority. What a discerning word.
"If it’s a priority you’ll find a way. If it isn’t you’ll find an excuse."— Jim Rohn
Priority is a noun meaning "status established in order of importance or urgency." Or, “something that is very important and must be dealt with before other things.” Priority comes from the word prior, which means to “come before something else. A priority is the concern, interest, or desire that comes before all others.”
Preference. Antecedence. Lead. Order. Precedence. Preeminence. Prerogative
"The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.” — Stephen Covey
We prioritize what’s important. It’s organic until it’s not. And, when you’re not certain it’s time to pause and ask yourself the deep questions.
Time to re-prioritize.
We prioritize daily tasks. I like to take the moments at the beginning and end of each day to schedule my priorities for the day that follows.
"Life with purpose. Live by priority. Live for productivity."—Gary Keller
Priorities in life shift and change as we change.
Prioritize your values. Your health. Your mission and purpose.
It’s healthy to frequently examine priorities to assess what is in or out of alignment with where we are and desire to be in life.
You have a sense when you’re someone’s priority, right? You also know when you’re not. The thing is, it’s your choice in how you move through it.
“Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.”—Mark Twain
Prioritize yourself. It’s like putting on your oxygen mask first, so you’re solid in self-love, self-acceptance, and self-value. Then, you’re able to powerfully serve your other most important priorities.
"Life is short. Focus on what matters most. You change your priorities over time."— Roy Bennett
To confirm. To release. To renew. To recognize those that are unshakeable. Non-negotiable.
Like family. Prioritizing family for me is unshakeable. After relocating to be near family, that priority is carved deeper into stone for me. Proximity does that sometimes.
Mom, thank you for making me a priority. You’re mine too.
Take some time this week and examine your priorities. Something to think about.
Journal Prompt
Prompt: What are your priorities? Where and how do you feel like a priority?
Make Yourself a Priority
By how you talk to and about yourself. Stop for a moment and take in these thoughts:
Can you think of a story you’ve told yourself, and are still telling yourself, that doesn’t feel good? Perhaps it’s something you heard long ago, something someone else said, that you’ve now adopted as a belief.
Or, perhaps there’s something that is holding you back, but you’re not sure what.
Please join the wonderful Maria Mahboubi (somatic healer and body shaman) and me (creative coach and word shaman) for a two-session interactive work(play)shop to discover the profound relationship between language and the body, uncovering how the words we choose (and hear) shape our physical and emotional well-being.
Your body holds onto your stories, your words, and more importantly, the feelings and fears attached to those words.
With interactive lessons for your mind, body, and soul, you'll learn how to disconnect from the stories you've told yourself or heard about yourself and reconnect and care for the incredible person you are inside.
This is powerful work.
Learn more here and come play with you:
Join us for WordPower on June 8th and 9th for two 2-hour sessions of exploration and healing. And, transformation!
A Creative Quest
What do you want to create?
Perhaps a Creative Jam Session is the key to opening the portal to your highest imagination.
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I hope you have a great week filled with positive, heart-opening influences. And, kindness.
Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers and mother figures!
Keep creating, abundantly,
