I've collected many nuggets of wisdom from the marketing communications profession. One of them is this: that if you want to be something, you have to not be other things. And if you want to be everything, you'll end up as nothing.
So it is with the rest of life. It's pretty obvious that we don't have time for everything; all we need is a game of Plants vs. Zombies and we'd see several hours disappear into thin air (which is why I don't touch this game at all—no offense to the PvZ fanatics out there). We need to choose what we do. If we want to live a meaningful life, it also means that we have to pursue the most meaningful aims. Our top priorities need to dominate life lest we waste it entirely.
So it is with the rest of life. It's pretty obvious that we don't have time for everything; all we need is a game of Plants vs. Zombies and we'd see several hours disappear into thin air (which is why I don't touch this game at all—no offense to the PvZ fanatics out there). We need to choose what we do. If we want to live a meaningful life, it also means that we have to pursue the most meaningful aims. Our top priorities need to dominate life lest we waste it entirely.