Hi, I’m Lily. I’m a qualified life and mindset coach (plus journalist/podcaster/consultant – I like to keep my options open.)
 
For years my coaching practice focused on achieving ‘goals’. I must have known, deep down, that arbitrary ideas of success were deeply flawed, hollow even, but still, I persisted. In fact, I worked with thousands of people across the world before accepting I was wrong.
 
What I realised was that it’s not the goals that matter, it’s the priorities that underpin them. Our priorities define our lives – what we think is important ripples out into how we create time and energy for the people and stuff we love. Life can be messy, chaotic and heart-breaking, but if we can learn to put our priorities first, we can come through the hard times feeling a whole lot more like ourselves.
 
Having realised all this, I became somewhat obsessed with priorities. I started a podcast (called – imaginatively – Priorities) and then launched a newsletter (branched out, called it prioritise this).
 
Meanwhile, in my coaching practice, I flipped the traditional goal-setting approach on its head, encouraging my clients to make decisions based on their values, principles and, yes, priorities. I taught them to define their own version of success based on who they wanted to be and how they wanted to feel. I combined this with teaching them how to prioritise helpful thoughts, behaviours and habits – the cornerstones of a healthy mind. My clients saw results, The Priorities Method was born.
 
In 2022, I started creating this Journal. It began as tick boxes and questions scribbled in a notebook, to simply help me keep on top of my own priorities as a mother of two with a job and social life and also a deep desire to have time to just lie down on the floor sometimes… I then realised my existing clients could probably do with some ongoing support keeping on top of their own priorities as well – I know from personal experience how easy it is to map out inspirational plans at a workshop or with a coach breathing down your neck and then completely forget about them a year, or even a few days, down the line! I also wanted to create something that was accessible to everyone; a coach-in-your-pocket that someone – hi, you!? - could pick up and work through in their own time. Finally, I really wanted to build a business based on the values I prioritise, with economic empowerment for women and sustainability at the core.
 
My aim for The Priorities Method is for it to become more than just a Journal, workshop or event. I want to create a community that recognises the chaos of living (possibly even creates it sometimes?) but still knows that, within that, it’s possible to build a life you truly love. It won’t be perfect, but it will be yours.
 
I really hope you'll join us.
 
Lily x