Your Life in Triage

Do you ever feel like you’re running from one event to the next?  Do you ever get to going so fast multi-tasking between task that everything becomes a blur?  Does it ever feel like Thursday, but it is only Tuesday?  It can be an overwhelming feeling to live life this way.  Depending on the stage of life you are in, the multiple task and commitments at hand can vary in intensity.   

If you do not have a system in place to facilitate the madness, you can be like a ship at sea without a rudder. In this situation you get pushed around by the waves and have little control over the direction you are heading. 

Over the course of history, a technique in medical practice has developed know as Triage.  This technique is focused around making quick decisions to assess the level of urgency in emergency situations with patient overflow.  In wartime battle situations, natural disaster events, or pandemics we see triage commonly used.  As patients arrive at a hospital or medical facility, they are evaluated as to the seriousness of their situation and treated accordingly.  Those patients with the most life-threatening cases are treated first and so on down the list. 

In our own daily life, we start our day out with a plan.  We prioritize, set appointments, and schedule our day out, then the phone rings with unexpected news.  Suddenly, that great plan we made is thrown out the window and we are sent spiraling into reaction mode. 

What if we used the same method of triage that is used in medicine in our daily life?  Instead of our plan being thrown out completely and us becoming reactionary; we instead assess the tasks that are coming in by their severity.  If something is bleeding hypothetically, we want to stop the bleeding, right?  If a nose is running, we can wipe it later.

No longer be captive to the waves taking your ship in any direction, take hold of the rudder.  When the speed of your life amps up and the tasks start mounding, we hope that you use the triage method.