Triage: How To Monitor & Prioritize Your Life

Triage is a medical term that is used to prioritize the urgency in which a medical situations need to be dealt with. This entails visualizing what the end result will be if action isn’t taken based upon what is happening NOW.   Determination of urgency is measured using a prioritizing scale of 1- 3 or 3 - 1.

1.  Requires immediate attention
2. Can be delayed briefly
3. Minimal intervention needed.  

The term triage comes from the French verb trier, meaning to separate, sift or select.  Using this methodology you can apply the basic principle to your life and areas of your life that need to be looked at.  By creating your own personal triage, you can start looking at what needs to be addressed and then you get to choose in which order it’s done.

Using the scale from 3 - 1 verses 1 - 3 closes the margin for error.  How?  By separating and selecting what’s not urgent, prevents you from being blindsided, by something you thought was a priority, only to find out later and to your detriment that it wasn’t.

Applying a personal life coaching triage to your life isn’t about pointing out what’s wrong or your perceived failures.  It is about the ability to put you directly on the pulse beat of what needs to be done so that you can get to your goal. It allows you to make choices in the best interest of self with speed and efficiency.   So, what’s your life looking like and what needs your attention first?

Join me, Dr. Wendy Dearborne choice expert and life coach and Olivia Lashley expression coach and artist as we take a look at how to prioritize your life.