Are your priorities aligned with your intentions?

If you?intend?to be in charge of your calendar, do you?prioritize?the actions leading to a bulletproof schedule?

Or do you take on more than you can chew because your clients, friends, peers, or fam?ask?

If you?intend?to sell your work to your email list, do you?prioritize?the actions leading to becoming a better seller?

Or have you not been nurturing your audience?

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Buddy, if you haven’t taken inventory in a while, it’s unlikely your priorities and intentions are aligned.?At a minimum, we should assess these two areas of our lives once every 90 days.

I tend to do this monthly. If I don’t, my priorities become unintentional, and I default to being in the passenger’s seat in my own life. And that ain't no fun.

Good or bad, if we?prioritize?it, we?succeed?at it.

• If you prioritize streaming TV or games for 4 hrs a day, you’ll be a great streamer.
• If you prioritize up-leveling your design skills for 8 hrs a day, you’ll be a great graphic designer.
• If you prioritize eating healthy 5 days a week, you’ll be pretty healthy.

Feel me?

If you're unsure whether you've been prioritizing things out of alignment with your professional goals, don't trip; that's a start.?Try this...

1. Take inventory of what you’ve prioritized over the last 3 months,?the last 30 days, and the?last week.
2. Without judgment, label any?patterns you notice.
3. Write down what you default to doing when you're not intentional.
4. Cross-match these actions with your priorities over those 3 periods.

Like what you see? Good, keep doing all of that.

Cringing at what you see? Re-evaluate your priorities and start acting with intention today.

Your intentions and your priorities work in tandem, on parallel tracks. Intentions feeding priorities. Priorities feeding intentions.

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