Coaching practices for Life Priorities Check

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• There are a handful of things I’ve been telling myself "someday" about for years
• I either cling to priorities I set ages ago that don’t fit my life anymore, or I only ever rethink them in a panic when something’s already going wrong
• Everything on my list is labeled top-priority, which really means nothing is
• I start the day with a list of five "priorities" and end it having scattered myself across all of them and finished none
• Whenever I try to narrow down what matters most I can’t bring myself to actually cut anything

Practices that may help

1. Identify your unstarted Quadrant 2 projects
   Name the important-but-not-urgent things you keep meaning to start — they represent your real priorities.
   The Eisenhower Life Audit
2. Run a quarterly focus review to refresh the lists
   Revisit and rebuild both lists every quarter — priorities shift, and so should the lists.
   Warren Buffett’s Two-List Strategy
3. Maintain at most three active priorities at one time
   More than three active priorities is the same as no priorities — attention cannot be shared four ways.
   Designing a Calm Company (Fried & Hansson)
4. Identify the single most important output for today
   Choose one task that, if completed, would make the day a success regardless of everything else.
   Essentialism: The Art of Eliminating the Non-Essential
5. Circle your top 5 without negotiating
   From 25, choose exactly 5 — the ones you’d feel worst about not doing.
   Warren Buffett’s Two-List Strategy
6. Name which burners are actually on
   Honestly assess how much fuel each of the four domains is receiving right now.
   Four Burners Theory: Making Peace With Trade-Offs
7. Run an annual values-spending alignment review
   Review your spending against your values once a year — values shift, and so should the allocation.
   Values-Based Spending, Made Practical
8. Eliminate or delegate Quadrant 3 activities
   Most "urgency" is other people’s priorities in disguise — audit and shed it.
   The Eisenhower Life Audit
9. Sort tasks by the importance-urgency matrix
   Classify every demand on your time by whether it is important AND/OR urgent before deciding when to do it.
   Big Rocks First
10. Weekly matrix review
    Re-sort your tasks weekly so the quadrants reflect reality, not last week’s assumptions.
    The Eisenhower Matrix, Made Practical

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