Keeping the Main Thing the Main Thing: What's Your #1 Number this Year?

In our world, we all suf­fer from jug­gling too many pri­or­i­ties and impor­tant things.

At the end of the day, boil­ing them down to the one or two that mat­ter most is a crit­i­cal skill, and we have a tool to help you make your life much sim­pler: The One-Page Mas­ter Plan.

This tool (from Chap­ter 17 of Your Oxy­gen Mask First. Find overview and resources here and chap­ter videos here), first asks you to imag­ine being at the end of your life, and to think about the sin­gle most impor­tant thing that you would want to accom­plish in three areas:

• Your Work – Career, mon­ey and investments
• Your Self – Being hap­py, strong and healthy, and
• Your Life – Friends, fam­i­ly and community.

When you look from that long-term per­spec­tive, it’s eas­i­er for many things that we think are impor­tant, today, to disappear.

It’s also valu­able is to think about the pri­or­i­ties of the essen­tial peo­ple in your life. To help me stay ground­ed, I cre­at­ed a wall in my office to remind me, every day, of what is most impor­tant to my children.

With­out that clar­i­ty, it’s much hard­er to main­tain the dis­ci­pline of focus­ing on what’s most impor­tant for each day, week, quar­ter, month and year – and to elim­i­nate a lot of the noise.

Like every dri­ven per­son, I often strug­gle with all the impor­tant things I want to get done or expe­ri­ence in the world, and I’m con­stant­ly bom­bard­ed and dis­tract­ed by oth­er ideas and opportunities.

As I sit here, in ear­ly 2023, this is what I want to accom­plish this year. Declar­ing them here makes me uncom­fort­able but I need to treat them accordingly:

• Work: Write and com­plete my next book.
• Self: Stay phys­i­cal­ly and men­tal­ly healthy: exer­cise, write and do things that ener­gize me.
• Life: Spend qual­i­ty time with the most impor­tant peo­ple, in my inner circle.

The Chal­lenge

• What is the #1 thing that mat­ters most to you, as you think about 2023, for your Work, your Self and your Life?
• As you build your To Do lists for each day, what will have the most impact on what’s most important?

Addi­tion­al Blogs

• Work-Life Plan­ning – Plan, Plan & Plan, Again
• Enjoy­ing Life in Tan­dem with Your Busi­ness Achievements
• Are You Liv­ing an Amaz­ing Life?
• Amaz­ing Life Plan­ner, Part 2
• Avoid­ing Regrets in Life by Star­ing Death Straight in the Eye
• Build­ing Your Per­son­al Life Plan for 2023

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