We live in a busy, even hurried day and age, to be sure, and that is precisely why we must start making our priorities really work for us, for this is actually the key to having greater success and happiness in life.

Once you have established the main key result areas of your life, such as Spiritual, Family, Career, Health, Financial, and so on, the next step is to begin the process of establishing priorities within those key result areas. To do this, make a list of goals and objectives within each of your key result areas, and place them in order of importance.

For example, my marriage is a key result area in my life, so I will begin to determine what my priorities are within my marriage. I know for sure that good communications is high on the list, especially as it relates to listening to my wife and hearing what she is sharing with me. Tuning in and trusting her intuition is another priority in my marriage. These, and many more priorities, are all listed in both our marriage plan and life strategies, and help to keep me on course, or bring me back to what's most important in our relationship, when I do get off track. These strategies must be working, because we have a strong and healthy marriage, even after 26 years.

Make sure you do not just set these priorities and forget about them. I encourage you to review them on a consistent basis. Share your priorities with those people you trust. Establish some accountability to make them become realities. I might add that writing down and or printing out your priorities and getting them out of your head and in front of you in black and white is also great mental therapy.

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