How to Prioritize Your Life Like the World’s Most Successful People

 If there is one thing in common that many “successful” people have in life, they know how to prioritize their time. Now more than ever, our time feels like it’s pulled in all different directions. We hold more titles and responsibilities than ever before. So how do we prioritize it all? 

 No matter what someone might tell you, we cannot do it all (and that’s OK). At least not all at the same time. Most of us have more on our plates than ever, which leads to us feeling that everything seems urgent and essential, but it’s not. Everything can be prioritized from most important to less important based on our goals.

So how do we decide what is most important? 

Having an actual list of priorities written down somewhere will help guide your decisions. Most of the time, we might not even think about our priorities, so we say yes to things that actually won’t allow us to achieve our goals or bring us happiness. 

Having a guide or list helps us make decisions without putting emotions into it. Feelings can change (raise your hand if you made plans and decided later you didn’t want to go ????????), but making rational decisions based on long-term goals can help us make choices that will benefit us and those around us. 

Let’s get started, 

Take a moment and make a list of your top 25 priorities and then scale it down to your top 5-10 items. It can look anything like this. 

List:

God

Health

Marriage 

Family

Job 

House

This list puts six things from top to bottom in order of importance. Want an example of how we would use this list to make a decision? 

Say, for example, your partner wants you to go out on a date, but you had planned to spend that evening working on a project at the house. You and your significant other haven’t gone out on a date in a month or two. Your relationship isn’t as strong in communication as it usually is because you haven’t gotten any real alone time together. If you look at the list you have made, you will see that you prioritize your marriage over your home, so you decide to take your spouse out for a date night, and you make time for your home project later in the week. This simple guide allowed you to decide without feeling overwhelmed because you prioritize your marriage over a home project. It might have been more comfortable for you to choose to work on a project since you had already planned to do that, but in the long run, your marriage will thrive because you decide to base your decision on your priority list. 

We understand that creating a priorities list might seem like a daunting task; everything seems like it needs your time and attention. The more you venture out into the world and take new opportunities, this list will feel like it needs to grow. We are here to help you keep this list concise and figure out exactly your priorities.

P.S- just like our life grows and changes so will our priorities list.