About the Importance of Priorities

Priorities. Everyone has them in some way. Some value a good meal, others strive for glory or power, then again there are people who can't live without their family. 
But what is it about priorities that makes them so important? 
Well, priorities have an immense impact on our decisions. On important decisions that will be life changing. 

Personally, I struggle with setting the right priorities. For many people this can be problematic, because we all have certain role models like our parents who we value highly and think of as perfect somehow. 
We meet a lot of different individuals every day and they all seem to be happy or at least content with their lives. And we often find ourselves thinking about what it might be that makes their lives happier than ours. The truth is, everyone struggles sometimes and you might as well appear like a happy person that has everything you ever wished for. 

But if that's true, what does make people happy then? How can you actually become the happy person you deserve to be? Well, I think this highly depends on your priorities and the decisions you make accordingly. 
Do you really need lots of money to be happy? It is true, money can't buy happiness. But what else could, if not money? That, my friend, depends solely on you.
We've all seen these images and movies of happy parents playing with their children and watching them grow up. We have all seen people who don't have much money at all and who are still happy. We all know of rich people who are deeply depressed. 
Different people have different things that make them happy. It can be anything really. A wonderful home filled with precious memories, a cheerful family, a friend's joyful smile when they receive a gift from you. And in order to find the happiness you are looking for, you have to make sure you find out what it is that makes you happy. Then the next step is to make it your priority in life. 
You like to make other people happy? Try volunteering or look for a job that involves helping others. You want to see the world? Go for it and visit other countries or learn a new language and get to know different cultures. You want to have more time for your family and don't care that much about earning less money? Downshifting could be exactly your thing. 

I know that it might take a lot of courage, but acting according to your own priorities in spite of what everyone else does is the first step into a wonderful future. It doesn't matter if your role model says you're supposed to work for the money you earn if this is not what makes you happy. It is your own life. And no one can tell you how you are supposed to live it.