Day Eighty-Four: Alignment

The term is a buzz word in Corporate America. Multitudes of highly efficient management teams sit in alignment meetings and discuss direction, communication, dissemination. They want to make sure that everyone's got something so that everything gets covered, nobody's duplicating efforts, and a consistent message is communicated across the board.

Sounds effective.

We, also, need to align ouselves. When our head and our hearts act in agreement, guilt doesn't sneak it's way in. We should set our priorities according to our values...the number of things on the top of the list should be small...only a few. They should be committed to writing. They may vary from person to person, but are probably some form of...

Health. Family. Intimate friendships. Career.

Like a chiropracter adjusting all of the disks that have found their way outside of the appropriate heirarchy, we too must make adjustments. Things that are given too much time are not in alignment. Items that receive a deficit of attention need more. Where we spend our time and money is where our priorities lie, regardless of what we put down on pen and paper. To align, we need to make sure that what we commit to writing is what we act out.

I challenge you to put pen to paper. Write down priorities. Determine where you're out of alignment. Adjust.