A 10-minute life exercise

What comes first?

You cannot give everything first place. Put the ten areas of life in your order, notice where your time disagrees, and choose the trade you are willing to make.

Inspired by Alex Hormozi’s reflections on commitment, choice and the fact that every yes quietly contains a no.

Choose your season

Build a life you chose.

This is not a scorecard for a “balanced” life. Your order can change. The point is to decide consciously, rather than letting expired options and other people’s preferences decide for you.

Step one

Put them in your order.

Drag the cards, or use the arrow buttons. Do not rank what sounds admirable. Rank what you genuinely want to make important in this season.

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Step two

Does your life agree?

For each area, estimate the attention it actually receives now. Think time, energy, care and money, not just good intentions.

0 = almost none · 10 = a great deal

Step three

Make the trade visible.

Every added hour comes from somewhere. A clean trade is kinder than a vague promise to somehow do more of everything.

Step four

Find the richer move.

Alex’s practical idea: look for actions that serve several priorities at once. Not as a trick to have it all, but as intelligent design.

One action, several boxes

Describe an activity that could nourish two or more of your priorities, then choose the areas it serves.

Choose at least two areas.

Step five

Keep the choice close.

Download this as an image, share it from your phone, or print it as a PDF. Revisit the order when your season changes.

My priorities

What comes first for me.

In order
The trade I choose

The cost I accept

My next seven days

One action, several boxes

“You get to pick your regrets, or they will be chosen for you.”Alex Hormozi · 5:11

From the source

Three reminders for when choosing gets uncomfortable.

The point is not to copy Alex’s priorities. It is to stop pretending there is a choice without a cost, and to make the choice yours.