The Rule of 3 3 is the magic number (at least in writing), unless you're a 3rd wheel in which case, 3 is not the magic number, however 3 is my magic number for this email and for our year long, 10 year anniversary celebration.
Values My top 2 values in life are health and relationships. I'm open to adjusting the order, but the way I see it right now is nothing is worthwhile or good if you don't have your health and if you do have your health, anything worth doing, having or being, is worth doing and sharing with people, so if I'm to learn from my grandfather who said, "loneliness is the greatest poverty" after he outlived his wife and most of his friends, then building and nurturing a community of people who fill your bucket and you can fill theirs is my 2nd most important value.
My 3rd value is money, because...well..., you need it. You need it to support the first 2 values, and because having it makes life a little easier. It's kind of like oxygen. You can't live without oxygen and you can't really "live" without money. I'm sure you could, but I'd rather not find out.
Here's the thing though. You'll spend a lot of your time in all 3 areas. It's kind of like an unequal, equilateral triangle. It may feel like or actually be that most of the time you're working, contributing or producing (doing things to earn, save and/or grow your income), but you're also doing things to address your health (eating, sleeping, hydrating, moving, check ups, hygiene) and you're doing things to work on relationships (texts, calls, emails, letters, smiles, check ins, helping, contributing, thinking of, giving, loving, making time, scheduling, sacrificing, asking, remembering, ...).
The latter 2, health and relationships, are kind of schedule it and/or do it. They fill the common breaks in the day, whereas work fills the bulk of it. Anyways, that's my 2 cents. The order can be debated, but we can all agree that each value is important and they each compliment the rule of 3. Now I'll try to connect why I share these values with you.
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