How high do you prioritize an activity? Does it change from week to week?
“Most of the time, I don’t ask you to make this your top priority. But for one week, you must.”
That’s part of what I said to the Rockford Aces in the lead to their concert week this week.
“For most of the year, I’m happy if your long priority list includes the Aces somewhere; just for this week, it needs to be in your top-three priorities.”
I want my students to have balanced lives. I want them to follow all of their passions, have lots of diverse experiences, try a bit of everything. I want them to play sports and be on stage crew and take tough classes and experience all that high school has to offer.
If I demanded more commitment, all the time, I could get it. They might even sing better by the end of the year. But they’d be less interesting humans, and they’d be less prepared for the diversity of experiences they are going to have in life.
But once in a while, we do have to prioritize things a little higher to get the job done.