Prioritization is power
In any project— whether it’s your latest novel or your new business, prioritization is key. It’s easier said than done, because even when we know we can’t do everything, sometimes our brain will still try to convince us that we can.
But whether we choose to believe it our not, time is a finite resource. Days pass by, months become years and if you’re not careful those projects and ideas you dream of bringing to life can slip away, all because you didn’t prioritize them and make them apart of your daily routine.
In creative work, prioritization is even more essential. It’s easy to put off the book you’ve been meaning to write or the blog post that came to mind, in favor of things that seem more urgent. It’s easy to complete a work and fail to do the final steps of promotion— to treat your creative life as an afterthought, rather than an essential part of who you are, part of your divine purpose of being here on earth at this moment in time.
What you prioritize has power. Giving time each day to your art increases its power to change the course of your life. Showing up to do the work daily is how you give power to your dreams, how you communicate to yourself that you— your ideas, your talent, your visions— matter.
We like to think that priorities are things set in stone, determined by external forces like jobs or our families, but the truth is those things are priorities because we say they are. It’s not to say that those things are not important, but who says you have to put them above every other ambition you have? Who says you have to deny your art just because you have other responsibilities? Most times there is a way to balance priorities. But only if you view yourself and your art as one.
It’s not easy. Your mind will continue to tell you that other things are more important, that this project can wait, that no one needs this story that bad. But that’s not true. If you’ve ever read a story that changed your perspective or watched a movie that taught you something about life or read an article that changed how you see the world, you. know that’s not true. Your art more than matters— its essential. It’s time you treat it as such.
