I told my bride last week that there are only about five things to be concerned with. Every other obsession, distraction, action item is a waste of our limited time offer. There is a chapter in my book (Waking the Working Dead) that is called “Beware of the Evil Number Seventeen.” Number seventeen represents that number on our list of priorities. I wrote that chapter because number seventeen seeks a lot of our attention, as well as our devotion. We should take a nuclear bomb to number seventeen on our list. It ain’t important!
Since we all are terminal (life is a limited time offer, no matter what you’ve read in Fortune), why not focus on a few things. Yes, I know Stephen Covey wrote about this. But Jesus spoke about it way before him. A life well lived is wrapped in about five things…not seventeen.
When you hit the half-way point in life, you’ll value only a few precious things. Life on this side of eternity goes fast. Don’t think you’ve got time. The statistics are not on your side. Besides, your passions are inside of those few precious things. Go live!