We live in a busy, even hurried day and age, to be sure, and that is precisely why we must start making our priorities really work for us, for this is actually the key to having greater success and happiness in life.

Once you have established the main key result areas of your life, such as Spiritual, Family, Career, Health, Financial, and so on, the next step is to begin the process of establishing priorities within those key result areas. To do this, make a list of goals and objectives within each of your key result areas, and place them in order of importance.

For example, my marriage is a key result area in my life, so I will begin to determine what my priorities are within my marriage. I know for sure that good communications is high on the list, especially as it relates to listening to my wife and hearing what she is sharing with me. Tuning in and trusting her intuition is another priority in my marriage. These, and many more priorities, are all listed in both our marriage plan and life strategies, and help to keep me on course, or bring me back to what's most important in our relationship, when I do get off track. These strategies must be working, because we have a strong and healthy marriage, even after 26 years.

Make sure you do not just set these priorities and forget about them. I encourage you to review them on a consistent basis. Share your priorities with those people you trust. Establish some accountability to make them become realities. I might add that writing down and or printing out your priorities and getting them out of your head and in front of you in black and white is also great mental therapy.

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Robert Prentice

Robert A. (Bob) Prentice is an entrepreneur, a motivational speaker, a corporate trainer, a business and marketing consultant, an author, and publisher, who began his career 25 years ago.On December 26, 1989, Professional Development Systems was established in Rapid City, South Dakota.

In 1998, Bob moved the business to Wessington, South Dakota, so his family could experience the benefits of living in a rural community. Since the birth of PDS, Bob has worked with literally hundreds of companies and organizations within a 15 state region, delivering highly motivational training sessions in Customer Service, Leadership, Sales, Total Quality Management, Team Building and more. Literally, thousands of people participate in Bob's training seminars each year.

A family man, Bob and Vicki, his wife of 28 years, have enjoyed the privilege of raising three children?two sons and a daughter?to adulthood. They also have an 11 year old daughter. Bob says he plays much more than he works, and when he works he goes to fun! Bob's friends call him Mr. Attitude.