What’s Most Important?

What is most important?

What a powerful question.

For me (Megan) it brings up thoughts around what has been important to me in the past and what I have considered most important recently. I wonder just how important these things really are in the grand scheme of things and how I came to the conclusion these things were most important. And at this point I am very curious about how I might be able to find out what is most important for me right now.

Thinking about what was most important to me I can drift back a long way or even just to earlier this year. For some things I can wonder why I thought it was so important, for others I wonder why I didn’t live like it was as important as it is/was. For more recent sets of priorities I sometimes wonder about how I can remember this during the harder times when I loose clarity and perspective, the times when I need an anchor to what is most important.

I have had a couple of conversations over the last couple of days about the perspective one can gain from thinking about how bad other people have it. This idea in the past has been a struggle for me where I would beat myself up for being unhappy or being challenged in life despite there being many others in far worse situations than myself. I have since learned that this thinking is good to a point, to keep from over dramatizing, remembering humility and staying connected with the larger life/reality perspective. At the same time I believe it is also important to acknowledge and respect the feelings that are happening when one experiences challenges in life to respect yourself and your experience and also possibly learn from what is going  on.

I feel the last two points that have bubbled up for me around how I discover what is most important to me are the most important for me now. Remembering how I have become clearer on what is most important to me at a particular time in my life to support myself to be able to uncover what is most important to me in more challenging times when it is hard to see. In writing this another point bubbles to the surface around being clear on how it looks in my life to be living as if these are most important and also being open to it looking a bit different.

So I ask you:

What is most important to you right now?
How do you know this is most important?
How often do you ask yourself what is most important?
How often do you listen and respond to the answer?
How important is it to you to be clear on what is most important to you?