Authors, How We Rank, Nest, and Layer What Matters Matters: Priorities and Nested Priorities
24 of 28 big ideas from the world of coaching to grow your author business
The twenty-fourth in a 28-part series on 28 big ideas from coaching for authors to coach themselves, adapted from my book, The Coach Within.
“You can have anything you want, but not everything.”
— Laura Lang
With all that we’re grateful for fresh on our minds from big idea #23, we move on to those things that matter most to us in our author lives and enterprises. As we coach ourselves, working on assorted aspects of our writing, marketing, and business building — bringing about better results for ourselves and creating desired realities — one area we will butt up against is managing our priorities.
Inherent in the concept of priorities is import, but so is rank. Some things matter to us more than others and, basically, how we order those things also matters. How we layer and nest, integrate and compartmentalize the priorities from different areas of our author businesses will have consequences — and so will the fact that we have priorities, know what they are, and use them as guidelines.
