Prioritisation in our life is crucial. Our life tends to reflect how we prioritise things.

Prioritisation in our life is crucial. Our life tends to reflect how we prioritise things. If our chief ‘God’ is money, or relationships, or sex, or status, or power, or any host of more negative ideals, that will be mirrored in our life. We who desire to be awake to our highest potential that of a child hidden within, we must cultivate passion for that and put it as number one on the list. Our life needs to be oriented around the intention to be awake. That doesn’t mean we become obsessed with it. Our task is to live a balanced life, but one that has a central conscious aim, to ‘remember yourself, always and everywhere’.

We especially in these current eBay and Walmart times, tend to be dabblers and samplers, trying out something before rushing off to try out the next thing. Perhaps no better metaphor for this sheer superficiality can be found in the modern online social networking phenomenon, where on such sites as Facebook individuals have lists of hundreds (or even thousands) of ‘friends’, the vast majority of whom they have no direct communication with (and probably do not even know), and who can scarcely be recognised as a friend in the actual meaning of the word. We live during of time of vast breadth but little depth. Everything is spread wide and very thin, owing largely to the advances in communication technology. Naturally there are some benefits from this, but there are serious drawbacks, one of which is a diminished effect on attention spans, restlessness and cynicism, and a knowledge-diet of ‘sound-bites’, snippets, YouTube mini-movies and endless related mundane downloads of trivia.