Welcome to Darren Daly on demand, your most trusted resource to help you become better every day.

Here's your success mentor, Darren Hardy.

Every day is a fight, trying to figure out what to say yes to and what to avoid.

It's an endless battle. Every morning you wake up,

you are bombarded with a tommy gun of solicitations, invitations, requests, and responsibilities,

people to appease, tasks to check off, and charities to support. How do you vet them all?

Here's what I always come back to. I have goals. There are priorities that I need

to do to achieve those goals and then there's everything else. There are usually a plethora of

things that I want to do. Actually, I would prefer doing even. But, and this is the big lesson here,

I have to get my needs met first. I want to check

my email. I want to watch this TED talk. I want to respond to this person to keep them happy,

but I have needs. And until those needs are met, I simply cannot do what I want. And that's not

always easy, I understand,

which is why so few people end up achieving

the level of success that they want

or even envision for themselves.

It's simply because they didn't take care of their needs.

So your first task is to figure out what your needs are.

Answer these three questions. Number one,

when it comes to achieving your mission, what are the big three goals that you need to

have achieved this year? Number two, to achieve those goals, what are the most

important projects, priorities that need to be completed to achieve those goals. And then number

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