TRIAGING YOUR PRIORITIES

​I was in the emergency part of the hospital again this weekend. 

Triage system is applied in seeking medical treatment, in disasters and in other situations when there are limited resources for overwhelming need/severity of the condition. Sorting them into three groups: those people that cannot survive even with care and treatment, those that will have 50/50 chance of survival, and those that can be saved/can benefit from treatment and care. In the waiting room, there is a huge sign that says, it is not a first-come, first-serve basis but people who are hard in breathing, bleeding, and in life-threatening situation will be administered first. 

Taking this out of the context of emergency and humanitarian situations, triage will be hardly useful except when practically applied in priority-setting.


What should be the number one priority for the year, which will have tremendous life-empowering impact to you, to your family, to your economy, and your career/organization? 

What actions/activities you should discontinue doing because it has lost its value, become burden than a joy, and lacks the challenge you require?

What support systems would be required to get you on the right track to accomplish the 'priority of the year'? 

In the larger schemes of things, our actions should be aligned to the most important objective, not on the "non-urgent and non-priority, good-t0-have."


Imagine what you are losing or giving away unintentionally when you don't do this at the beginning of the year?