By Todd Duncan

Now that you have visualized your perfect day, decided to commit to the future you, and made an honest assessment of your skills and talents, its time to prioritize your priorities. Remember: most people don’t have a perfect day because they ignore priorities that they either don’t know how to handle, aren’t good at handling, or both. By following four steps to prioritizing your priorities, you allow your perfect day to become possible for you.

Check your heart – take inventory now.

How are you feeling about the mortgage business? Is your heart overflowing with joy and happiness because you’re getting everything done in the time frame and way you want? Or, are you frustrated because you know there’s a better way but you haven’t figured it out yet? Take inventory now. If you could create a new reality, what would you keep and what would you delete?

Rank your priorities in order of your sense of value.

Do the following exercise: Write your priorities (i.e., business, health, family, etc.) on the left hand side of a piece of paper, with the most important priority at the top and the least important priority at the bottom. Then write these same priorities on the right hand side of the paper in order of the time you spend on them. Next draw a line and connect the same priorities from the left to the right. Are your lines horizontal and parallel? Often, people don’t spend time on their highest priorities because the priorities taking the majority of their time are actually urgencies. Part of prioritizing your priorities is to ask yourself: Is this a true priority or is this an urgency?

Schedule the priorities that will give you the greatest return.

Scheduling these kinds of priorities is incredibly important. The bottom line: Priorities that don’t get scheduled don’t get done.

Priorities must be completed at the time you have them scheduled.

If you’re going to have a perfect day, what gets scheduled must get done. Frustration comes from knowing what you should do but not doing it. Success comes from knowing what you’re doing is what you should be doing. When priorities are completed on time and on schedule, you create the kind of momentum that creates new growth, new standards, and new personal best records.

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