15 Things Worth Prioritizing for a Better Life

Your life sucks because you don’t understand what makes life suck less, because of evolutionary pressures humans are designed to deal with the most imminent threats. But not everything urgent is important. If you get trapped in the pursuit of the Urgent you will wake up one day and realize you messed it all up. You will feel stuck, lost, unfulfilled even angry at the world. To some of you this might sound familiar.

By the end of this post, you’ll have a clear understanding on what ingredients make up for a fulfilling life. Let’s do this here are 15 things to prioritize in life, if you want to max out your experience.

1. Yourself

You are priority no. 1, not your friends, not your husband or wife, not your children, you. If you aren’t well, you can’t help them. A sinking ship can save nobody. Your health is probably the most important thing on this list. If you’re unhealthy your illness will have Ripple effects throughout your life and the lives of others.

So, prioritize your health physical, emotional and spiritual. If you fly often, you’ve heard this phrase a lot. Should an emergency situation occur you need to put on your own oxygen mask first before attempting to help those around you.

If you don’t heal, you will bleed out on the people who didn’t cut you and there’s nothing worse in life than realizing, you’re having a negative impact on people you care about. Rest is health so prioritize rest, prioritize sleep, prioritize time and healing environments. Weak soldiers win no battles and if you want to win in life you need to be in fighting shape.

2. Time With Your Children

Some things are more valuable per unit of time than others. Why? Because once the moment has passed it’ll be gone forever, and time with your kids is one of them. You think you can work now and spend time with them later, but they will never be kids again. They will never be the same age they are today. If you miss it, it’s gone.

They say a man is not a man until he can love something more than he loves himself, but this goes for everyone not just men. Children are a rite of passage of sorts. You don’t have to have children if you don’t want to. We’re sure there are other ways of maturing, but if you choose to have them give them your best.

3. Your Partner

Early in life, where you live is the most important decision but once that’s taken care of, the second biggest choice is who you choose as your life partner. This person will be alongside you for the rest of your life. People like to say happy wife happy life but that’s not really the case.

In reality, we lean more toward unhappy partner, unhappy life or if you want to stick with the Rhymes happy spouse, happy house. They will play a crucial role in bringing up your children. They will either be there to hold you at night or you’ll fall asleep alone. Your partner is who grounds you. Your partner is  what home is. You can win at all other things following on this list but if you fail at the first three, you’re done. People get too caught up in the money or the Fame game and then you wake up one day alone in a mansion.

4. Your Business and Income

Money is the fuel of life. Everything is expensive and growing more expensive by the day. People want to put themselves on a pedestal and pretend like money isn’t important, but you can’t feed your family with Sacramento quotes. A car without fuel can only go one way, downhill. Neglect your business or put it in the hands of those who don’t see your vision and it’s just a matter of time before it turns into chaos. People get rich because they make it their business to become wealthy in life.

Everything you want out of life, all the Comfort your family needs is Within Reach. We both know you’re smart enough and driven enough to make it happen. You just need to put the aside and do the work you keep postponing.

5. Your Growth

Very much like sharks, staying still in the water will kill you. You need to keep moving a tree that isn’t growing is secretly dying and so are you. If your life feels stressed meaningless or like you’re wasting it away, it’s because you lack growth. When’s the last time you evolved, when’s the last time you believed you took a mental leap, when’s the last time you genuinely felt every day of your life is getting better and better.

There’s a direct correlation between success, happiness and fulfillment to the amount of time, money and energy you devote toward growth. This is by far the biggest takeaway that we took from the rich and it allowed us to build our Fortune as well.

6. Your Freedom to Move

Your freedom is in direct proportion to the number of hooks and chains you have in you. If you decided to pack things up and move to the other side of the world tomorrow, could you do it?

How your mind to wander for a second and think about what that would be like. Well then reality starts to creep in doesn’t it. Your job, your mortgage or rent your responsibilities you have right here and all of a sudden you realize you’re not free. You’re a prisoner in a cage of your own design and cages such as this kill what’s left of your identity all of a sudden, you’re no longer you.

Instead, what you do becomes your identity. All of a sudden people around you think of you as the job that you do, he’s that guy she’s that girl, be honest and ask yourself, how free do I really feel that is your mission in life. If you don’t like your answer do something about it, prioritize freedom and it’ll open up side quests that make the journey extraordinary.

7. Your Investments and Savings

Your business and your income is the predictable inflow of fuel for your life, but even if you’re a high earner that doesn’t mean your sand castle cannot still crumble. You become rich by getting paid a lot of money for your work. You become Wealthy by earning money while you don’t have to work.

Wealth comes from Investments; Peace of Mind comes from savings and emergency funds. If you stopped working today, let’s say a car hit you and you don’t have insurance how many months could you sustain your current lifestyle. If the answer is less than six, you’re in Rough Waters. You’re one Murphy’s Law incident away from crashing. Rich people prioritize this in such a way that a good portion of their income goes directly into Investments or at least savings. But typically, they invest over 50 percent of their income.

8. Your Core Relationships

When it comes to priorities and relationships in life. You don’t need volume, you need depth. You only need the right two to three loyal friends and you can conquer the world. It’s for this reason why Facebook is failing as a social network. Too many connections and too few genuine relationships.

Who even are all of these people anyway, your high school colleague got married, another doubled in size, another posted pics of their holiday. All Surface no depth. Life gets kind of lonely after 40. It’s impossible to make new old friends, so cherish those you have if they bring value to your life. Fail to do so and you’ll become an island family. You your kids and your spouse. It might be enough for survival but you’re not thriving you’re blending in as a solo identity.

9. Decluttering Your Life

The things you own end up owning you. The more you’ve got the more you’ve got to deal. With that fancy car you have well it requires maintenance, the convertible’s got a leaky roof, the closet is filled with clothes yet you wear the same three shirts in rotation.

Poor people think having more stuff makes you rich or wealthy because in their mind that’s how you measure wealth. But rich people know wealth is having as few things as possible and being comfortable with that reality declutter your life and you will find Freedom and lower stress.

10. Your Long-Term Goals

Prioritize the long-term Vision, over what needs to be done this week, for this week becomes next week which becomes the week after. Before you know it, you’re old and can barely walk, touch, feel, smell. See look at your life the same way an architect looks at a building they want to create. If it’s designed well, it’s beautiful flows naturally and feels like it’s supposed to when done properly you don’t need to force it. That’s what your long-term goal should be.

11. Emotional And Spiritual Health

What good is the external, if the internal feels like hell. What if the numbers on the screen look good but it’s hard to go to sleep at night. You’re smart enough to understand the impact one could have over the other. When we feel at balance, we are more productive, more creative and it’s easier to keep pushing forward.

If your life feels like you just want to quit maybe you should stop looking outside and start to turn your gaze inward.

12 Your Network

The more we evolve the more we learn to appreciate the powers of networks. One could have nothing but a network and it’s just a matter of time before they’ve got something. Prioritize these relationships over the more trivial ones.

Let them know you’re thinking of them send them small gifts as tokens of your appreciation. When the time comes, they’ll be there for you like a safety net of opportunity.

13. Adventure

Life not lived, is a life the universe wasted on you, so travel, experiment Leave the World Behind sometimes. You will make the money back you will get another job. You will get over your ex but you will never have a second chance at Living this life. This is it.

The only ticket to the theme park that life is so what are you going to do with it. Will you take it for a ride or will you spend your remaining days in the teacups because they’re familiar and predictable.

14. Time With Your Mom and Dad

We know, you might not be on good terms with them maybe the relationship is just okay or you know hopefully some of you had some emotionally mature parents and everything is great. But the reality is you won’t have them around for too much longer. You only have maybe 10 to 20 more Christmases together. If you only see them during the holidays, you’ll see your mom and dad only 20 more times and that’s it.

The beautiful thing is, that there is an easy fix to this. You, yes you not them have to be the one making the effort. You’re doing this for you. The more you understand your parents the more you understand the soil they grew in, the more it’ll make sense why they are the way they are. Your relationship with your parents is the perfect teacher for what to fix in the relationship with your own children. That’s how we as a human species progresses, so if you don’t want to do it yourself do it for your children.

15. Sustainable Happiness

People confuse pleasure with happiness a lot. This is why poor people think money will bring them happiness because they think eating a good meal will make them happy, but unfortunately that’s pleasure. We know plenty of obscenely wealthy individuals, that can no longer purchase pleasure because they’ve over indulged in it. On the other side of the coin, we know people who have a fraction of what we have who are very genuinely happy.

The more you do what feels natural inside of you the happier you’ll be. Every compromise you make, every morning you have to step on your soul to get out of bed your happiness gets a little further away from you. Sustainable Happiness is when you find a rhythm for your life, not too fast not too slow just right.

If you know when to step on the gas and when to stop the car and grab a coffee you might just find that sweet spot. The perfect spot, the optimum one, the ideal route where all the lights turn green for you. For every red light you have on your proverbial Road of Life, know that there’s someone out there who’s pacing themselves and getting all those green lights. We strive to be that person and we hope that you’ll someday get there as well.

Final Though

The list doesn’t stop here, think deeply what is one other thing you should prioritize in life. One that we didn’t mention on this list.