Prioritize Your Priorities!

If you ask women how they manage to keep balance in their lives and business, one of  the common threads in all their answers seems to be prioritizing.  We seem to have found that making sure we use our time on things that matter is key.  Beyond that, though, we have to select which items we spend time on and when we spend time on them.  That's what I like to think of as prioritizing our priorities.

One entrepreneur responded, when asked about how she keeps balance, by saying she is proactive in her planning. She actually "axes" or gets rid of anything in her plan that distracts her from her goal.  That response really resonated with me.

Staying balanced and prioritizing means keeping your eye on the prize.  We have to constantly ask ourselves, what really matters?  What are we trying to accomplish?  The answers will help us plan and stay on course each day.

One other thing women seem agree on is taking time for reflection.  Some take time for quiet meditation or prayer.  Others go for a meditative walk to start the day.  Or maybe you take yours at the end of the day, with a soak in the tub by candlelight.  Whatever we choose, we need to find a way to go inward to recharge.

Getting our priorities in order depends on how well we understand what is important and how we set our goals.  Once we know that, our goals practically set themselves.  In other words, know yourself and what you want. Then you can plan how to make it happen in a way that works best for you and those around you.