Common steps and sub-activities
Reducing desires - prioritising and reordering
What in the end determines the priority of objectives?
There is the obvious one of for example, doing the things we need to do in order to survive, but again why one objective becomes more important than another seems to be something of a mystery – and this time it is not that one will make us happier than another.
We seem to set our targets particularly high when we feel an objective to be an important one – exciting, impossible or dangerous – a Challenge - so one pointer to how important an objective is, can be how impossible it is to meet!
Ralph Waldo Emerson – Nature
Without electricity the air would rot; and without the violence of direction which men and women have, .. no excitement, no efficiency. We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it
Anatole France
The fascination of danger is at the bottom of all great passions
So review the list and reorder it
No |
Objective |
Why have you got this objective? |
|
one |
I would like to change my house to something less expensive to maintain and pay for, in a prettier place - away from the city and somewhere more peaceful |
Because my present house worries me, the bills worry me, the noise of the city gives me no peace, I hate cities and I love the country
|
|
one |
I want get out of the rat race |
It is making me ill I get no sex because I am hardly ever at home and I am knackered when I am at home |
|
two |
I would like to be looked after like I was when I was a child |
Because I felt safe and happy then and loved |
|
three |
I would like to know what it is like to fly like a bird |
No idea |
|
Four |
I would like to drive a Ferrari for a day |
Because I would like to feel what it is like to go that fast |
|
Five |
I would like to go on holiday to a tropical island |
Because I think it will give me a sense of peace and the colours and sounds look beautiful |