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Welcome to Roots of the Rise with me, sarah Hope. Today I'm doing my first responding to questions episode. This week I had a question regarding priorities hit my inbox, so that is what I am going to talk about today. Let's get to it. I was so excited when I saw that I had my first question hit my inbox. This question was referencing episode 30, which was all about prioritizing your priorities. In that episode I described an exercise you can do to look at what's important to you and make sure you are putting in the appropriate amount of effort. Listen to the episode if you want to hear that explained in full. But today I wanted to answer the question that came up for Monique, who wanted to know how often you should change out the priorities on your list. So this is a great question.

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Your first indication that you need to reassess is if you're unhappy. If you consistently wake up feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, like you're being pulled in too many directions, that you're failing at everything, or even just really, really badly in one department, well, that's a good indication that either something is wonky in your priority list or that your priorities are still in order but your effort isn't, because that can often be the case. I don't foresee my actual priority list changing much in the near future. My top 10 are likely to pretty much always be my top 10. My marriage, my kid, my self-care, my work, family, friends, financial stability, spiritual development I mean those are probably always going to be my focus. Now the order might change a bit depending on you know, life variables, but likely what's going to go awry more often is not the actual list but my effort or attention to each of these categories. You know my happiness, sense of fulfillment, of joy that's what's going to indicate that I need to look at this again. Fulfillment of joy that's what's going to indicate that I need to look at this again. Now, if you're just trucking along and everything feels great, then maybe you make it a quarterly exercise, just stay on top of it, just to be present, you know, present to the things you care about and maybe preemptively head off any misalignment. If this is something that you don't really have a problem with, that you tend to feel like you are placing your attention where it should go and you know everything really feels good to you, then maybe you just make it an annual thing where you, you know, every January or on your birthday, pick, you know, whatever feels kind of most aligned for you. You sit down and you look at everything.

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As I was thinking about this, I also thought it might be helpful for me to actually list out some of the you know topics that you might want to put on this list. I thought that might be a nice addition since we're talking about it anyway. So here we go. I categorized it generally speaking. So, for instance, kind of in the personal category, you might have things listed like you know success, feeling valued, being confident, having a sense of purpose, self-compassion, inner growth and development, spiritual connection, health. You might have financial things on this list, things like income, financial stability, future planning, like saving for retirement. If you are still on a part of life where you have a career, maybe feeling valued in your job or feeling like you're doing a good job, maybe stability or advancement is going to be part of your priority list.

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When it comes to relationships, you know marriage is a big category. You might end up needing to break that down into something like communication, intimacy, fun, emotional connection. Also, you can add in there, you know, for relationships, things like feeling that you belong, friends, family, children note about children, if you have children. If you have multiple children, I should say each one is their own category. I may only have the one, but I know plenty of people who have multiple and they all say the same thing Each child needs a different level of attention, a different kind of attention. They all need different things. So we want to honor that and acknowledge that each child should be their own separate category because their needs are going to be different.

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That's a big list. I know it's not even comprehensive. I am certain I've missed some things. I mean personal alone. You can break down into the individual elements of self-care, like we talked about way back in episodes I don't know, it was at the beginning like somewhere around 15 or so. So there's a lot here. You need to figure out what's most important to you. This is just an awareness exercise, though. So like have some fun with it, don't get too serious and know that you can come back to it and reassess whenever you want. There's no set rule. Again, a big thanks to Monique for sending in that question. It's the first one I've gotten through the text me button in the episode description and it was just so exciting to have it come in. Please, if you guys have questions or you want me to talk about any particular topic, let me know.

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