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If you want to “crush it” in 2019, you might be thinking of all the things you want to accomplish this year. You might be surprised to find that doing fewer things might be the key to making this your best year ever. I am an avid writer of New Year’s resolutions and goals. I find it disheartening, therefore, when I review my goals late in the year and realize only a few of what I considered to be priorities actually got done. I think part of the problem has to do with the number of priorities we pursue. <\/p>\n\n

Determine Your Priority <\/b>\n\n<\/p>\n

The dictionary defines the word “priority” as: <\/p>\n

\n Priority:<\/b> If something is a priority, it is the most important thing you have to do or deal with or must be done or dealt with before everything else you have to do (Collins Dictionary).<\/i>\n<\/p>\n

That definition makes perfect sense. We get into trouble when we start listing out multiple “priorities.” <\/p>\n

“The word priority came into the English language in the 1400s. It was singular. It meant the very first or prior thing. It stayed singular for the next five hundred years. Only in the 1900s did we pluralize the term and start talking about priorities. Illogically, we reasoned that by changing the word we could bend reality. Somehow, we would now be able to have multiple ‘first’ things.” – Greg McKeown, Essentialism <\/i>\n<\/p>\n

Many of us aren’t crushing it in our lives because we are getting crushed under the burden of too many “priorities.” Some of the things we pursue might be to: <\/p>\n