{"id":3801,"date":"2024-06-10T03:54:24","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T02:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/binarywords.com\/?p=3801"},"modified":"2024-06-10T03:54:24","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T02:54:24","slug":"cosas-que-importan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/binarywords.com\/en\/2024\/06\/10\/cosas-que-importan\/","title":{"rendered":"Things that matter"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you\u00b4re into productivity and personal development, then you\u00b4ve probably seen multiple times a matrix that\u00b4s used to categorize tasks based on their level of urgency and importance (and if you haven\u00b4t, I encourage you to search for it, it\u00b4s called the Eisenhower matrix<\/em>, and it\u00b4s a great tool to help establish priorities).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, let me say that this week, I\u00b4ve had the luxury of dedicating my time to truly important things, not necessarily urgent ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Things that matter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

People who matter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moments, places and memories that matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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No, I haven\u00b4t been spending my days doing jigsaws. This photo is not recent; it was taken a few months ago. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This jigsaw was a birthday present from my daughters, and it took us a couple of weeks to finish it; we all collaborated. I\u00b4m showing it here as an example of the idea I\u00b4m trying to convey to you: intentionally dedicating time to people and things that truly matter. For, as you\u00b4ve probably been able to verify, when you don\u00b4t set an intention, the urgent things (regardless of whether they\u00b4re important or not) end up consuming all your available time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the thing is, how do you find out what truly matters?<\/strong> The key to this is that the answer is not the same for everyone<\/strong>; it will be slightly different for each person because everyone\u00b4s priorities and preferences are different, even though there are certain more or less universal themes we can all relate to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of the day, it\u00b4s all about identifying our values: the fundamental principles we consider most important, the ones that guide us in our day-to-day decisions<\/strong>Each of us needs to decide which values best suit us based on who we really are and what we want to experience and foster in our lives. This often involves reflecting on whether we\u00b4d like to keep the values we inherited from our family or society or add, remove, or change some of them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The reward for doing this work of clarifying our values is being able to make more conscious and consistent decisions, as well as realizing when we're getting into an internal conflict, for example, when we hold contradictory values (either inherited or acquired) that put us in a crossroads situation, or when we act in a way that satisfies others, or that\u00b4s theoretically \"the right thing to do\", but that somehow violates our core values and makes us feel bad. Acting in alignment with our values allows us to live in peace with ourselves.<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ready to start? Here\u00b4s a very straightforward yet powerful exercise:<\/p>\n\n\n\n