Process: Finding Your Real Priority for the Year Ahead

What do you need to know BEFORE you make or act on your goals? The answer is your priority—and it’s not what you think!

I always thought my priority was my work, or maybe producing page after page of writing. But it took until my 26th year on this earth to figure out that work is not my number one priority after all.

The reason I know this is true is because I’ve made work my priority for over a decade now, and I can’t say it has ever increased my happiness by itself. Work just creates money wh...