Many of us wish that there were more than 24 hours in a day to accomplish all the tasks we have set to do for the myriad of roles we have. If only we had more time.

 

The real solution is not to gain more time. It is to balance roles.

 

In our quest to be production and efficient, we tend to accept a myriad of roles that keep ultimately eats up our time. We find out later that our main roles are suffering because of the other less important roles we have assumed. We often complain that our roles as a family member suffer because of work, and vice versa. Many of us seem to think that in order to be good in one role we have to neglect some other equally important role.

 

We do not know what our real roles are. We just assume anything and everything whatever comes our way.

 

Roles we have should emanate from our mission. Our mission in turn, grows from our principles.

 

Stephen Covey illustrates this as a tree. The leaves are our roles, which grow from the trunk which is our mission. The mission however is attached and shoots up from the roots – our principles.

 

Principles => Mission => Roles