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Episode 059: 4 Steps to Setting Your Priorities

March 14, 2019

As you likely know, I coach leaders in family business. Depending what leads someone to seek coaching, often one of my first questions is to ask my clients about their priorities.

What I’ve found through coaching is that people often come to me feeling overloaded and overwhelmed. They are paralyzed by their calendar. They recognize that they aren’t showing up the way they’d like to, whether it’s at work, at home, with family and friends and for themselves. Something is amiss. They are not living by their priorities.

4 Steps to Setting Your Priorities

STEP 1: List your aspirational priorities. How would you ideally like to live your life? (7:10)

STEP 2:  Identify how you are currently spending your time. (10:48)

STEP 3: Review. Compare your aspirational priorities and your current living priorities. (12:30)

STEP 4: Take action. Create a personal mission statement and create a no, thank you plan. (16:20)

DOWNLOAD my Setting Priorities in 4 Steps Workbook.

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Ellie Frey Zagel

Ellie Frey Zagel is 3rd Generation, Vice Chair and Trustee of her family’s foundation the Frey Foundation based in Grand Rapids, MI. For nearly a decade she has been deeply involved in working with the next generation of family business, family philanthropy, and family wealth, first as Director of the Family Business Alliance and now as President of Successful Generations, a company she recently founded.

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