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How I Prioritize and Organize Goals in My Life

Dennis Cortés
4 min readFeb 9, 2018

Volume 73 - three minute read

Feb 9th, 2018

What is the driving force in your life? What makes you want to be a better, more productive, and more caring person? Your goals of course! Everyone has them. Whether you write them down or subconsciously keep them in mind, at the end of the day the difference between where we are and where we want to be are the goals that drive us.

This is a continuation of my post from last week about how I manage my to-do list. I think both this article and last week’s work well with each other for me personally and are typically dependent of one another. So if you haven’t read that one yet, I recommend checking it out first!

Now, like most things in life there is no one-way to do things best. While I’m not here to tell you the way I do things is the best way, I do think there can be aspects of my personal process that can be applicable and beneficial to your own. Let’s go over how I approach my goals in life.

🏗 Think Small, Work Big

I don’t like to write down overarching goals that I have in life. Large goals tend to be very vague and difficult to work towards directly in my experience. For example; if I were to write down I want to be more productive in life, I would need to spend extra time…

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Dennis Cortés
Dennis Cortés

Written by Dennis Cortés

Head of Design @ Northstar, Musician, Content Creator, Software Tinkerer. I write about design, leadership, tech, and music.

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