Checking your priorities.

Once, I gently suggested to a work colleague that perhaps they needed to let some stuff go. Just do what matters, the really important stuff and then go home and tune out for a bit.

They had been getting increasingly fractious over an upcoming series of deadlines, and I was a bit worried. Now, my intent was good, but maybe my execution was off a bit. I did not stick the landing.

I was forcefully, frustratedly and despairingly told, "No, really, all of this needs doing. It is all important. Everything here is important."

"Except you?" I asked. "Why is everything here more important than your health, your spouse, your kids, your friends?"

Do you need to put yourself back onto your list of things that are important?