Monthly lunch meetings help everyone prioritize.
The founder and chief sustainability officer of GoodGuide Dara O'Rourke explained most of the app's users worry about health, environmental and social impacts, but everyone prioritizes differently.
At NSC, our vision is to eliminate preventable deaths in our lifetime, but we can only do that if everyone prioritizes safety.
Moveon.org and others have issued just this kind of call to action; everyone should prioritize responding and turning out in large numbers.
And because people come in many shapes and sizes, there's no guarantee that the standards are ideal for everyone — even if companies prioritized them.
(This was a very helpful piece of criticism from one of the reviewers of my NSF proposal). Most of the proposals people read will be work no one else has done; you want to highlight why your ideas should be prioritized over everyone else's.
Every woman I know who has or had breast cancer has always taken care of everyone else -- saving, fixing, rescuing, helping, loving, and prioritizing everyone else's needs above her own.
This is called being selectively vulnerable — or opening up while still prioritizing everyone's boundaries.
And in the long run, a pattern of prioritizing everyone else's needs over our own will end up holding us back from ever reaching those goals.
If you are so drained from prioritizing everyone else so you're not taking care of yourself, you will burn out.
