Pick your mom’s call first.

Or your dad’s. Or your girlfriend’s. Or you boyfriend’s. All of the people who mean the world to you. The people who will be still there for you even after everything you chase is dead and gone. The people who love you more than you love yourself. Pick the damn phone.

Common sense tells you the opposite. Common sense tells you not to pick up your phone from people you love. You are in the middle of something. They will understand, you think. They can wait. They can talk later. They can be addressed later. They can be listened to later, when every other priority in your life is taken care of. When every other priority in your professional life is taken care of. Anyways there will be there for your, always. Put them on a wait, it says. Well, Common sense is bullshit.

We assign priority to things that would be of more significance to our lives. We do and focus on things that would give us more in the future than what we have now. That we already have these people loving us all the time, they are not part of the “significant future” anymore. That part is acquired already. That gap in your life is already filled and taken care of. Let’s worry about other gaps and holes, isn’t it? Keep running towards something that might be worthwhile. This call can wait for later.

Of course your business deals are important. Or the next break in your professional life. Or getting 1000 more followers on your instagrams and twitters. And writing that next blog. And that presentation at work. And finding 10 new customers for your startup. Yes, they are all important. Apparently these small milestones that we get through are important than anything else. The call is a disturbance, man.

You are in the zone, you don’t want to think of anything else. You don’t want to get distracted. You don’t want to worry about anything else. Everything else can wait. Your stuff is the priority right now. People who care about you and who worry about you, can wait. Because there is not much of value they can add to your life right now. They can’t do anything to your milestones. They can’t contribute anything significant. The phone can wait.

This is no apologetic blog. This is no sentimental article. This is not about how you take care of your family or loved ones. Or how love trumps everything else. Or how family is the shit. Its not even about the phone call. The article is still about you. You chase significance all the time. You have bigger and bigger goals. You chase them, run towards them. Its all about you.

Except for one thing, though. You would not even notice what you have done and achieved, if not for the people who care for you. People who remind you that you need to take rest. People who remind you that you need to celebrate. People who remind you, that no matter what you do, you make them happy. People who remind you, that they are happy for what you are trying and achieving. So pick up the damn phone and tell your mom that you are in the middle of business deal discussion. She will be happier than you are right now.