Making changes in your network marketing business, or life in general, can be enhanced with coaching, but if you aren't ready for leadership coaching, here is a quick procedure for determining your priorities to simplify your life.

Leadership Coaching

Whether you want changes in your family life or your career, the process of personal development is much the same. A lot of people say they want their network marketing business to grow or better relationships or more money. But when you start asking them just exactly what is most important, they don't have a clue.

Options can Overwhelm

One time my sister and I were looking for a house to rent together. I was a single parent and had 3 young children to consider. We were overwhelmed with the choices. We were looking at lots of places but not finding anything that seemed to fit just right.

A friend of mine, a psychology student, asked us what was MOST important in a living situation. We waffled around with lots of ideas but really couldn't say what was our main concern. He suggested that we get totally clear about what we wanted so the looking could be more focused and less draining. He gave me a simple process to determine our main concern.

Prioritize

The process was simple. You had to break everything down and consider each element against each other. You create an either--or situation with the question "If I could have either______OR______, I would choose______?"

How to Do It

Decide what you want to clarify. Something in your business, relationships, health. Whatever you choose. (If you don't know what area to work on start with the foundation exercise here.) In my example, we needed to get clear on what we wanted in a house.

Brainstorm

And make a list of all the things that are important to you in your chosen area. It doesn't matter how many items are on the list. Put down everything you want. Don't edit it. Don't put them in any order of importance. List everything. Number your list. In our case we had about 20 different ideas about the perfect house.

Next, go over the list and check each item against each other item with the "If I could have either______OR________, I would choose_______" statement.

Now look at item #1 and item #2. If you could ONLY have either 1 or 2, which one would you choose? Put a check beside that one. Next look at 1 and 3, which ONE do you choose? Put a check by it. Now look at 1 and 3. Put a check beside the ONE that you choose.

Go down the page systematically weighing each item against 1. When that is completed, look at 2 and 3. Choose ONE. Decide between 2 and each remaining item in the list. Do the same thing with 3, 4 , etc. on down the list.

What is Important

When you have evaluated each item against all the others, count the number of checks that each one received. List them in order, most checks to least. If you have several with the same number of checks, do the process again with just those few.

This process will show you what is really important to you. For me, the overwhelm of too many ideas and choices was alleviated and some surprises resulted. I found that a safe neighborhood, play area and warmth way out ranked size and number of bedrooms or bathrooms. Evne what town. Some of the things we thought we wanted didn't get any checks at all.

Leadership Coaching for Life

This may seem really obvious, but it is amazing how often we overlook it. By knowing what was really important it made it much easier to cut down our looking time by ruling out houses that lacked our most crucial requirements. Then what we wanated just seemed to glaringly appear. It works the same way in any segment of life.

The funny thing is-we got almost everything we were looking for. Quickly. Knowing what we were looking for gave us a clear map to get us there.

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