By establishing your Prime Directive, you determine what's most important to you. You determine what you will work on first. You also determine what is next in order of importance and what comes after that. Since there will always be unexpected delays, interruptions and distractions, work on our Prime Directive can sometimes get derailed.
For example, if achieving our Prime Directive requires a conversation with someone who is unreachable for the next week, we need to either find another approach, work on some other aspect of accomplishing it or temporarily work on something else. If an urgent time-sensitive matter requires our immediate attention, we may need to allocate some time to that prior to returning immediately to work on our Prime Directive.
Things rarely go exactly as planned. That's why it's important to remain somewhat flexible, while still refusing to give up working on that which we have determined is most important. Delays and distractions may be inevitable. But when you refuse to be permanently sidetracked, failure is not an option. Next week, we'll talk about how to establish Prime Directives in each of the most important areas of your life.
