What are the most precious things in the world? How to identify what’s priceless?
Priceless is something that is given for free, but when lost it cannot be claimed back or bought. Time, health, and trust are given for free to each one of us. When lost no money can buy it.
by covilha
Time
Time is given for free. “I have no time” sounds too often. The more I hear it the more it sounds weirder to me. We are all given 24 hours a day, ain’t we? The trick is allocating right amount of time to the right thing.
My take is that Time Boxing Is The Biggest Secret For Achieving Results.
“Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it. Once you’ve lost it you can never get it back.” - Harvey MacKay
Health
Most of us are born physically, mentally, and emotionally healthy. If it is not the case there is no reason to make it worse. Preserve it and grow. Invest in your physical, mental, and emotional health.
My take is that one must be sensitive to the 4 Dimensions Of Personal Power .
“To keep the body in good health is a duty…otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.” - Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta
Trust
Trust is hard to earn. Really hard. You earn trust by being there and offering value. Not just value, but the one that meets the challenge.
My take is two fold:
“Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.” - Cicero
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Its sad how time is just used as excuse for most things that are really important. Like having time itself!!!
Applying it allowed me to achieve more with less, no joke.
When you’ve discovered just how fragile life can be, then you realize how precious it is.
Tola
Consider: when it comes time for a parent to part with their child, the child will either miss them dearly, a little bit, or not at all. I want to be missed *dearly*. The only way to do this is to spend time. I’ve read from your previous posts that you place priority on that and I admire you for that.
@blogrdoc - You tackled most “painful” bullet in my today’s agenda - kids. I have two daughters. I am on my quest after finding the way to enroll them into good parent vision, rather than get them being complied to good behavior doctrine. I am reading Peter Senge’s book “The Fifth Discipline”. I adopted enrolment and compliance thing from the book. Although he does not talk about parenthood, I truly believe it is very applicable in parenting too. Influence without authority. How do you crack this nut with kids? How do you influence your kids without authority? If you know the answer please share. I am having hard times right now to find the answer. I want to be missed too. Just like you.
One thing I can tell you is that the technique of building vulnerability based team works both in workplace and with kids too. When I shared my vulnerabilities with my colleagues I got lots more support and help. When I shared my vulnerabilities with my kids I earned a sympathy and they went to bed without a fight LOL!
More on building vulnerability based teams here - http://thebookshare.blogspot.com/2008/01/building-trust-on-your-teams.html . JD talks about trust there, GEEZ law of attraction strikes again.
My dad grew up in culture/time that when *his* father simply called his name - he was _trained_ to say ‘Yes, Father’. Not only were these two words required, but even the _tone_ was important. He tried to train my kids to do the same for him (by repetition). It sort of worked, but not really.
Then, my 3 year old turned the table on me, and he would call ‘Papa!’ and I decided I would say, “Yes, son” (in a subservient tone). And without fail, he would return to me and say “Yes, Papa” (in the same loving tone)
Basically, I ‘give in’ first to “teach” him correct behavior.
I get more and more confident about the approach you describe - teach by example, role modeling, less preaching, more examples.
Actions are louder than words. Both with kids and at work…
Thanks for sharing
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Great post. I would like to add one more though, that is “thoughts” .
Thoughts are things. They are intangible yet have most powerful influence in our life. We can not own or buy anyone’s thoughts. We can only influence thoughts with positive attitude, self belief and by providing exemplary leadership.
Shilpan
Thanks for the additional thought!
I believe that in order to genuinely influence someone’s thoughts you must earn trust first.
You cannot buy other’s thoughts but if you win someone’s heart she or he buys in.
She was right, of course, and you are right too: good health, generally, cannot be bought.
I went to your blog and two titles caught my eye (OMG, 3 titles):
- Study: Moms And Toddlers Argue 20 Times Per Hour (I am on my quest to reduce this rate, in fact I am writing the post right now on that topic, Mark Twain is of great help here….)
- Multitasking Reduces Efficiency
and the winning one is:
- Blogging: are people truly interested in the discussion, or is it all about self-promotion? (What a fantastic question to ask!!)
I am your reader now!
alikl
New reader, and like what I see, keep up the good work.
Alex
Great to hear you like the stuff on this blog! WRT to time, I liked how you put is - “create time”, nice.
I am sure you will like reading this
http://practicethis.com/2008/01/10/time-boxing-is-the-biggest-secret-for-achieving-results/ and then this one
http://practicethis.com/2008/01/03/blogging-saves-me-time-4-examples-and-counting/
I went to see you blog – wow, nice work! But what really hit me is your “My Story”. It resonated w/me a lot for two reasons – first, your passion for self improvement. Second – I walked similar path 17 years ago.
Subscribed, tezka.
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As parents we are the Major teachers, the biggest people in the wide world by their perspective.
We are the most confidence fundamentals to our Kids in a vary situations in our day after day scenarios.
One important this is to rank the value of you most operations.
The Higher level that our job can be is Second place and this is a compliment for our job.
The Higher and the first place is our family.
First thing to do when you interact with a customer you have to ask if he/she has kids.
If you’re Kid has a Show or any School or kindergarten activity this is the most important “Mission” on your schedule time.
Be aware that our Child satisfaction is one of our Life mission.
Bye
You made a good point. Allocate enough time for your kids to earn their trust. Invest in your family first. I cannot agree more. Here is the mantra I adopted “My family is the first and the best customer”. Sounds familiar to you?
thanks, alikl