Every day we do many kinds of activity. Almost our every step in life has its own goal. It doesn't matter whether this goal is global or just a senseless one. When we are children, our goals differ from adults' aims or intentions. To succeed we must have some traits of character, knowledge, skills, acquirements. It means that on our way to every goal we must achieve something. And the last and the largest achievement is a goal itself. But sometimes it's very difficult to achieve all our goals at once. Such situations exist because of different reasons: our goals in different spheres of our life, achieving one goal we automatically lose another one or we have too many aims and too little time to achieve them. So how to settle all these problems? Priorities help us to do this. For example, when we are children the priority for us is a game. We spend most of our energy and time to achieve our priority-oriented goals. But it doesn't mean that while going towards our main aims we forget about minor intentions. Our priorities help us to systematize all our aims. When you have the main aim and aspire it it's much easier to settle all other problems and reach other minor goals. You make only right and confident decisions when you have a priority-oriented aim. From time to time our priorities change. It's because we're growing up and changing our social status. There are also two main problems connected with priorities. The first one is that a man can lose his priority-oriented aim. He may have several reasons for it. But the problem is that a man has many duties and no aims to achieve. It doesn't mean that this man (let me call him Danila, it'll be easier) can't understand what for he is doing this or that kind of activity. His aims just aren't interesting for him anymore. But the problem is that he must do his job. Another problem is when Danila will try to change his priority. At this moment he may get into a muddle with his priorities. It means that Danila leaves one of his priority-oriented aims, but doesn't realize a new one. In this case our poor boy begins to go along two different roads in order to achieve different priority-oriented aims. But it's impossible, because there can be only one main intention at a time. So in a period of time Danila will realize that he gets into a muddle. After that he will begin to create a new priority-oriented aim. To conclude I must say that our life is a furious race. And it's necessary to have definite aims in order not to shoot out from the route.
Seagull, it seems that you have personally experienced what you are writing about. What are your priority-orieted goals. Do you have many? Have they ever changed with time? How do you evaluate the result? What makes you satisfied with what you have achieved? What must a person do to understand his or her priority in life? Are there any other external forces that can affect our priorities?
I can't say whether I have many goals or not. I have enough. The time and new circumstances of life are, of course, changing my aims. Speaking about recently achieved goals, I must say that I'm not satisfied with the results. Almost every time I achieve something I tell myself what I've done, that I can do it and that I'll, of course, be able to do it next time. I'm satisfied with what I've achieved only in the case when the result is maximal. I don't accept any other forms or types of results.
Almost all our wishes could become our goals. Another kind of goals are those aims that we have to achieve because of any circumstances. So we have all these goals and then we must understand which goal we most of all need to achieve. And this goal or may be a complex of goals become our priority-oriented goals.
Speaking about external forces that can affect our priorities, I must say that these forces are our work, duties, friends, relatives, parents, family and many other things. And whether they influence our priority-oriented goals or not depends on a concrete situation.
I'm satisfied with what I've achieved only in the case when the result is maximal. I don't accept any other forms or types of results.
Well, your viewpoint is quite understandable, but I'm afraid, it might be a misleading one if you follow it all the time. Well, that's just my strong belief, and nothing more than that, but I am convinced that in order to come up to a great result, you should suffer a great deal of regret, despair and baffle. If what you've come up with is not what you planned to achieve, that should be considered a minimal step, which is just an intermediate stage towards a wondrous success, naturally provided you try hard.
No doubt, the things you've mentioned really affect our priorities but we shouldn't mix up or goals and priorities with somebody else's wishes. Otherwise, we'll become very disappointed in due course.
That all seems very convincing and thought-provoking, but I just have one question. How do you think whether it is possible or not to have no priority? There are people who sometimes can't define what is most important for them because they consider all their activities cardinal, or the other way round, none of them has a slightest significance for a person. And I also suppose that the theme of this blog hasn't been chosen randomly. I guess it bears upon you somehow too. Do I have a point here?
No priority? Hm-m-m-m... I suppose, there should be some. But it may be difficult sometimes to formulate it. No priority... I don't think it's possible.
May be you're right. But what about those people who don't want to achieve anything in their lives? Or can you name any priority for a person who's in apathy?
will try to change his priority. At this moment he may get into a muddle with his priorities. It means that Danila leaves one of his priority-oriented aims, but doesn't realize a new one. In this case our poor boy begins to go along two different roads in order to achieve different priority-oriented aims. But it's impossible, because there can be only one main intention at a time. So in a period of time Danila will realize that he gets into a muddle. After that he will begin to create a new priority-oriented aim. 
