A person’s pledge of love for another, when accompanied by the ‘gift’ of 30 seconds of their time during a 24 hour period, is probably not very convincing to the recipient. Time spent with one we love is a priority and there’s a limited amount of it.
Drs. Les & Leslie Parrott, authors of “Your Time Starved Marriage”, suggest ‘making’ time as opposed to trying to find it. Finding time is often all about better organization and if you doubt that, just check out some of the examples I found when searching for ‘how to find more time’. Making time, on the other hand, is about deciding what matters most.
For example, if you brainstorm a list of activities that could draw you closer to each other, and select one or two to include in your relationship on a regular basis, you’ll be moving toward making your marriage a greater priority. On the flip side, there may be things in our life that don’t need to occupy the time they do and those can and, dare I say, should be eliminated.
Successful people devote plenty of time to the top priority in their life. Can you think of something you’ve made a high priority in your life, good or bad, and what you did to make room for it in your hours and minutes budget? Feel free to share that with me and my reader…it might be just what someone needs to move their prioritizing in the right direction.