Today’s Homework
This little exercise has changed the lives, career paths, and fitness journeys of thousands. Read today’s assignment undistracted. Grab a pencil and paper. We’ll transfer this information to your smartphone, but your best thinking is done old-school style—with a sharpened No. 2 pencil and a crisp piece of paper.
This little exercise has changed the lives, career paths, and fitness journeys of thousands. Read today’s assignment undistracted. Grab a pencil and paper. We’ll transfer this information to your smartphone, but your best thinking is done old-school style—with a sharpened No. 2 pencil and a crisp piece of paper.
Start by brainstorming your priorities.
Priorities are those things that are so important that if they were stripped from your life, you would be devastated, unfulfilled, and living without purpose. Who do you want to be? What do you want to accomplish? What makes you happy? What do you think is your purpose in this life? What gives you pride? What do you wish to be remembered for at the end of your life? What do you want people to know was most important to you? What makes you feel good about yourself? What areas of your life are of great importance yet you believe you must keep yourself accountable to honor them?
Renee's Priorities:
Compassion to others and myself
Giving back to the world
Family - ensuring they are safe and taken care of and have what they need
My health and ensuring I am able to do what I want to do
Sal's happiness
Living life and experiencing new things
Financial Freedom
Place a star next to the five areas that are most important to you.
Now list the three priorities (in no particular order) that you have identified as most important to you. Use just a few words to identify each category, such as “faith,” “family,” “career,” “my charity,” “my health,” and so on.
Rewrite the list in order of importance to you
My number-one priority: Family - happiness, safety and ability
My second priority: Compassionate living - towards myself and the world
My third priority: Experiencing life -- freedom and openness to experience
My second priority: Compassionate living - towards myself and the world
My third priority: Experiencing life -- freedom and openness to experience
Take the priority you’ve listed as number one and complete the following statements:
The reason(s) I have placed the greatest importance on this area of my life is because:
I will honor my number-one priority by doing my best to: ensure I am able to be clear, focused and compassionate towards others. Making good decisions about work, finances and my own focus.
The following action(s) would be inconsistent with my commitment to my top priority: Making decisions that would limit my clarity of mind and make me inaccessible to my family or the ability to care for them.
To honor my number-one priority, I will limit the following: Hmmm....not sure what I need to limit. I think just the negative self-talk and restlessness and living life without purpose.
To honor my number-one priority, I need to make the following changes: I need to make decisions that protect my family and yet still provide me with a healthy state of mind. I need to build a life and world that is the role model and direction that keeps them safe, happy and provides while still allows me to feel as if I am living the life that makes me happy.
I will honor my number-one priority by doing my best to: ensure I am able to be clear, focused and compassionate towards others. Making good decisions about work, finances and my own focus.
The following action(s) would be inconsistent with my commitment to my top priority: Making decisions that would limit my clarity of mind and make me inaccessible to my family or the ability to care for them.
To honor my number-one priority, I will limit the following: Hmmm....not sure what I need to limit. I think just the negative self-talk and restlessness and living life without purpose.
To honor my number-one priority, I need to make the following changes: I need to make decisions that protect my family and yet still provide me with a healthy state of mind. I need to build a life and world that is the role model and direction that keeps them safe, happy and provides while still allows me to feel as if I am living the life that makes me happy.
Now you’re ready for the last question on the worksheet—and it’s so important it gets its own section.
Creating Your Top Priority Statement
With as much detail as possible, create a “top priority clarity statement” in the space below. Here are some examples.
My number-one priority is to fortify and honor my relationship with my family by spending more time together, listening, engaging, and sacrificing to help each member feel important, admired, trusted, respected, and supported in our everyday lives and to limit activities and pursuits that might be harmful to these relationships.
My number-one priority is to build my business by being present, disciplined, and focused on serving my customers and committing to learning everything I can about leadership, management, and business success and eliminating excuses, distractions, and unproductive pursuits.
Here’s my own top priority clarity statement:
My number-one priority is to be present and actively involved in the lives of my husband and children; to demonstrate through my actions that my children are more important than any personal pursuit; to work to strengthen my loving, respectful, and supportive relationship with my husband as a means to provide the best possible environment for my family; to raise self-sufficient, confident children who believe they can do anything; to limit any activities, pursuits, or relationships that might take me away from my family; and to weigh all decisions against what would be helpful, harmful, or indifferent to my family’s emotional well-being.
Now write yours. Take all the time you need.
Write or print out your top priority clarity statement and post it on your computer, near your desk, in your kitchen, on the inside of your medicine cabinet. Memorize it. With this statement front and center, it’s miraculous how clear even the toughest decisions become.
My number-one priority is to be present and actively involved in the lives of my husband and children; to demonstrate through my actions that my children are more important than any personal pursuit; to work to strengthen my loving, respectful, and supportive relationship with my husband as a means to provide the best possible environment for my family; to raise self-sufficient, confident children who believe they can do anything; to limit any activities, pursuits, or relationships that might take me away from my family; and to weigh all decisions against what would be helpful, harmful, or indifferent to my family’s emotional well-being.
Now write yours. Take all the time you need.
Write or print out your top priority clarity statement and post it on your computer, near your desk, in your kitchen, on the inside of your medicine cabinet. Memorize it. With this statement front and center, it’s miraculous how clear even the toughest decisions become.
My number-one priority is to live my life with compassion and inquisitiveness that allows me to provide the example to my children and live a life that can provide what my family needs to be successful, healthy and happy.
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