Hello! I'm Tamara Johnson, your host of The Get Out of the Mud Show with your weekly Quote and Assignment.

Today's quote comes from Stephen Covey, who said:

Most people struggle with life balance simply becausue they haven't paid the price to decide what is really important to them. -Stephen Covey

I have seen this concept true in several areas of people's lives. Have you decided what is important to you in your relationships? Have you decided what kind of personal qualities are most important in the person you date and will marry? Have you decided what the most important activities are for you to spend your time on? Most of us have to choose between activities that are good, better or best. But because life is busy and one hour follows the next until a day is finished, we just go from one task to the next to the next. Often times, we don't decide where we will spend our energy simply because we allow the demands we feel on our energy and time to dictate our actions. Weeks or months or years down the line, this lack of focus will result in missed opportunities, disappointments and misdirected energies.

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Tune in on Wednesday as I answer a listener's question about how to get over a guy and protect your heart from being hurt in the same way again.