How to Develop Your Personal Priorities

1. Determine your values related to the personal aspect of your life.

2. Determine your goals related to passions, interests, hobbies, talents, and pleasure.

3. Commit to your current and/or new and improved values and goals.

4. Contribute towards them by taking a proactive approach in celebrating your values and reaching your goals.

JM's Advice on the Personal Aspect of Life

Maintain a healthy and positive attitude. When you think good thoughts, you feel good. When you feel good and take a proactive approach towards life, work, and love, good things happen. You can only have one thought at a time. Make it a good one and keep thinking this way.

Determine your passions. There must be something that drives you wild. What's your #1 passion? What brings you to tears? What do you absolutely love to do, see, be apart of, or experience? Whatever it is, as long as it's legal and healthy, invest in it and include it in your life each and every single day.

Develop your interests and hobbies. Figure out what fascinates you and what you'd like to commit towards learning more about in the future. What do you want to tell people when they ask what you're into or what you do for fun? As long as it's healthy and legal, it can be a positive part of your life.

Develop your talents. While you don't have to be good at anything in particular, if there is something you do well or would like to do better, invest in it. If you love to play the piano, but have forgotten how to read music, commit to learning how to do it again. If you love to sing, but your throat becomes sore after a few notes, get a voice coach. It'll help you professionally as well as personally.

Focus on doing and contributing to things that bring you pleasure. Do what makes you feel good and attempt to avoid things that make you feel bad. If meeting people online, for example, makes you feel good short-term, then enjoy it. However, if you know that long-term, nothing will come from fruitless relationships, stop immediately. Feel good.