
After you have those 3–7 life priorities, rank the shit out of them. If you need help figuring out what should be at the top of your list, simply contemplate your mortality with one of those deathbed thought exercises: If a creepy dude with a scythe told me that I was going to die in a year, what is the most important thing for me to do in the time I have left?
…ock climbing or reading Chinese, keeping up with the news or pop culture — the list goes on and on. Because the issue isn’t that I didn’t have enough time; it’s simply that I did not choose these things to higher in my top life priorities than other things, which is a heck of a lot more empowering. Your list may look different, and that’s great. You do you.
Now that you have both lists — your life priorities and your how-I-actually-spend-my-time — here comes the actual question that determines whether you get the golden chalice: does where you’re spending your time and attention match what you say is most important to you?