Priority isn't plural

[gwendally]

I am reading "Essentialism" by Greg McKeown and thinking about my Big Rocks. How to focus on the essential when I have seven core values? What is my main priority? Because, as McKeown points out, for several hundred years the word "priority" was only ever singular.

How will I spend my one wild and precious life, as Mary Oliver asks

Comments

[crazyburro]

if it's Great Gatsby then it's Daisy's choice party :-)

Fundamentally isn't really your one and only real priority your ongoing life satisfaction? All those other things you mention, ranging from caring for/about family to the decision to go to a party etc are really sub-priorities to support that life satisfaction.

[froggoddess]

I'm guessing there's all sorts of logistical reasons why Philly in October makes sense. But from where I'm sitting I'd love to go to Miami in November... ;)