…we’d all fall into the exact same financial bracket, wouldn’t we? ‘Cause as much as we love to say – okay maybe I shouldn’t speak for you, scratch that. As much as I like to say, “I don’t have time,” truth is, I’ve got just as much time as anyone else. 

Excuses. That’s what Tag(g)lines is all about in February – and probably March, too, ’cause let’s face it: I might feel short on time, but I’ve got excuses in abundance! 

I introduced the idea a week or so back: I want to spend time taking a look at the excuses that often keep me from writing when I know I need to and even (mostly) want to! Writing books is such a huge dream for me, yet on an average day, excuses chomp at me like those monster things in the old Number Munchers computer game. (Remember that? From back in the days of black screen and green font. Good stuff. Almost as cool as the original Oregon Trail game. Do you want to ford the river or take a ferry?) It’s up to me whether I run from the Excuse Monster or stand idle on the square and let it munch me up…

So, time.

This is perhaps my biggest excuse for not cracking open the laptop when I know I should. Between family and work and church and friends and wonderful, wonderful sleep and, of course, reading (bookworm, yes), the scale of supply and demand where time is concerned seems awfully lop-sided.

But it’s been said by a hundred different people a hundred different ways and is just plain true: if it’s important enough, you make time for it.

If writing is truly a dream – not just the “oh, wouldn’t it be nice kind” but really the “it’s part of who I am” kind – then I’ll be willing to make the time for it.

 And isn’t that true in everything? If my faith is truly the most important thing in my life, won’t I spend time nurturing it? Sacrificing other things for it?

If my family is important to me, won’t I be intentional about spending time with them?

If my job matters to me, won’t I use those 8 hours a day wisely and productively?

It comes down to choices, doesn’t it. I choose how I spend my 60 minute an hour, 24 hours a day, 52 days a year, hopefully 90-some years of life…

Time can be a lazy excuse…or a well-managed commodity. With a little prioritizing, the latter isn’t such a far-off thing.

Question Time! What do you want/need to do that you find yourself thinking you don’t have time for? Could a little prioritizing change that? And…got any prioritizing tips for me?