I read a great quote from Dr John Demartini today: "If you don't fill your day with high priorities, it will automatically be filled with low priorities." How often have you wanted to make a change that you knew would be beneficial to your health but didn't have the time? We all know that there are positive steps we could start tomorrow that would have a real, tangible effect on our health and our life.
There are 24 hours in a day and seven days a week, so in reality most of the time it comes down to what you are prioritising, not really how much time you actually have. Whenever surveys are done about what people value the most, health invariably comes in very high, if not at the top of the list. Yet if you were to do another survey measuring what people actually spend their time doing, it wouldn't be high at all.
If you are adamant that you just don't have any time at all, I want you to do one thing for me. Firstly write a list of your priorities - the things that are most important to you in life - friends, family, health, money etc. For the next week, keep a very strict diary. Write down everything you are doing and how much time you are spending doing it, including time watching TV, time on the Internet, time gossiping, time procrastinating, time worrying etc. You will be amazed (and maybe a little embarrassed) at just how much time you spend doing these things. Now go back and look at your list of priorities and see how much time you are spending on your top five.
You will soon realise that there is time available, but you are not prioritising correctly. So start consciously filling your day with high priorities first. And if health is one of your high priorities, then start allocating time to get healthy. You're worth it!
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