I have too many priorities.

When everything is a priority, nothing is a priority. It's an odd phenomenon. Importance is fundamentally relative to other things that are less important.

We have to choose what is important to us, what is most important to us. Just like those silly middle school questions, would you rather this or that. Even the morbid ones — if you had to choose which family member to save, which one would it be?

Honestly, I don't even like to think about those questions. The answers can be too uncomfortable.

They are more palatable — and imho more relevant and important — when applied to how we choose to spend our focus each day, in the context of weeks, months, and years.

What do I need to do today, when I only have so much energy in a day?

I used to try to do everything in a day. Meditate, work out, cook my own food, go to work, practice hours of music, play a gig, socialize with friends. Sounds disorienting — it's too much for a single day.

I still struggle with it. Yesterday I had so many competing priorities I hardly got anything done. The notifications and context-switching between apps certainly did not help.

Today I am trying to get only 3 things done, each with allotted time periods. There are baseline things that I continue regardless (this blog, guitar practice, daily hygiene), but only 3 unique to-dos today.

Focus is a rare commodity. It requires discipline. I wonder which is more rare.