How do you focus on your priorities and make sure that the actions you take are really contributing to those priorities? First, your life priorities should be CHAMP. That is, Career, Health, Adventure, Money, and People. That decision has been made for you if you want to live with Nerd Zest.
Adulting is hard. That’s why we drink, smoke, do drugs, avoid responsibility, blame other people, blame society, blame Trump, and make life harder than it needs to me. There are so many distractions going on these days with the 24 hour news cycle, internet content, constantly connected, online, narcissistic, look at my facebook, superficial human toilet bowl of constant me me me all the time………… whew, that was a bit of a rant…….sorry, back on track.
The reason I developed these were to give you a fish. Telling you what your priorities should be eliminates the need for you to set your life priorities. These categories of life, in my opinion, encompass everything you would ever do. Each decision in life can be mapped back to one of these categories. If you concentrate on improving these areas of your life, you will be better off than most people on this planet.
Next you need to learn to map you actions back to one of those priorities.
Mapping your actions to your priorities is not difficult, but it does take some thought. Think about any major decision that you have made in the last few weeks. How did you come to decide what you did? Was it on a whim? Did you do some cost benefit analysis? Pros and Cons? However you came to the decision, I bet it can be mapped to an area of CHAMP.
Let’s say that you decided to go camping with some friends. Great choice but does it map to a life priority. Let’s find out. Camping is mostly a social experience. Coupled with some outdoor activities and you can map this to maybe 3 life priorities. Health – Getting a mental break from work to enjoy the great outdoors. Adventure – Hiking, biking, fishing, or any other outdoor activity will do. People – Going with friends helps to strengthen existing friendships and also meet new people. So yeah, this would be a good choice.
Let’s go the opposite way and evaluate a bad decision. How about buying that shiny new iPhone that just came out. You don’t have the $900 saved up to buy it outright so you buy it on credit at 16% for 12 months. So for the next year you have committed $81 a month to pay $979. How does that affect your priorities? Money – You have to modify your budget to accommodate the extra payment. Health – Your decision to take on more debt weighs on your mental stability because you can’t pay your bills at the end of the month. Adventure – you have to cut back on doing extra activities because you can’t afford it.
This short exercise in evaluating life choices was a simplified version of what you can do to improve your life. You need to set priorities to guide you in your decision making. Once you have accepted the CHAMP priorities, you have to make sure that you are improving constantly on those priorities. If you are doing this, you will see your life improve and you will be more successful. If you have bad priorities or no priorities, you have no direction in life and are just getting by.
This is not how Nerd Zest works.