From the course: How to Stop Overcommitting
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Distinguish between priorities, values, and goals
From the course: How to Stop Overcommitting
Distinguish between priorities, values, and goals
If you are feeling overcommitted, it may be because you're not looking at your calendar and your commitments and your habits and your routines as a reflection of your values, priorities and goals. Values are really your beliefs or principles that guide you. You can ask yourself what's really important to you. Values are lived and they're happening now. They're not achieved. You choose your values, but they can be influenced by others. Priorities, however, are how you want to order things of importance, how you want to put things in order so that you can achieve them. Your goals, on the other hand, are accomplishments that you desire to achieve in the future. I'd also recommend exploring what many people call Smart Goals. Goals that are specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and time-bound. Understanding other’s values, priorities, and goals helps you understand if you are aligned with that person. People either lift you up so you can achieve and prioritize to reach your goals…
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