When brainstorming your priorities and visualising your goals, it can often be most telling to look at the everyday choices that you make and habits that you have to determine whether your values are really aligned with the outcomes you desire. For example, if you write down or tell someone that your first priority is your health, but you examine your habits and notice that your snooze button gets more of a workout than your exercise shoes, you can see that you are not prioritising, valuing or focusing on this goal in your real life (where it counts!). This may come with a number of excuses – you may work nights, you may study and have a lot of commitments. Fair enough – but if something is truly a priority for you, you will organise yourself and plan ahead to make sure you are getting enough rest by going to bed earlier, preparing yourself for the struggle in the morning by putting your exercise clothes out ready, placing positive motivation near your bed – a quote or an inspirational image to remind yourself of what it is you want. This is the same for prioritising relationships in your life. If you say that friends/family/loved ones are the most important, but you spend most of your time with them watching TV or on your phone (or you don’t spend much time with them!), it’s time to re-evaluate. Put a post-it note on the TV to remind yourself that quality time is important, book a dinner/coffee/walk with the person or people and have a reminder as your screensaver on your computer or phone to connect with the people you care about. We form habits around our values – and it is always beneficial to re-evaluate them over time.
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