How setting priorities can set you free
Nurturing Habit with Dona Bumgarner, How setting priorities can set you free
I have a spreadsheet in Google Drive called Life Priorities.No joke.You may be far less geeky then me and have zero interest in listing our your life’s priorities in a spreadsheet, but let me tell you why I did that. Because I felt overwhelmed by all that I wanted to do with my time, and all that I was not getting done.So I wrote it all out.Build a business. Be a great mom. Work on my shit in therapy. Sew my own wardrobe. Knit all the things. Keep a beautiful English style garden. Read 50 books a year. All of it.And then I put them in order. What did I want most? What was next? When I got them all sorted out that way, I realized that there would need to be five of me to do all those things, but that if I worked on the top three reliably, I’d be pretty happy with my life. And if I made time for the ones near the bottom once in a while, that would feel like a treat.So I’m working on my shit in therapy so I can be a great mom and keep building my business. I keep my knitting in the car for times when I’m waiting for Stella somewhere and I regularly go to bed early to read. I’m ignoring my garden right now and I occasionally sew something wearable.And you know? I have a really good life. It no longer feels so overwhelming or like I’m failing at everything.We can do everything we want - just not all at once. Prioritizing is the way to keep that truth from driving you crazy.In this week’s podcast I’m talking about how getting really clear about your priorities can help you feel more in control and successful in your life, too. I’ll share how you can figure out the things you want to prioritize, if you aren’t really sure right now, and I give lots of examples from my own life about how I shift priorities on the fly when circumstances demand it.Listen to Episode 33 now in the play bar below (reload your browser if you don’t see it). Or open the episode in iTunes. This show is also available in Google Play and in Stitcher.<span data-mce-type="bookmark" style="display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;" class="mce_SELRES_start"></span><span data-mce-type="bookmark" style="display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;" class="mce_SELRES_start"></span>
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