3 Mistakes I Made When it Comes to Prioritizing and Focus as a Multi-Passionate

And how you can avoid them.

These 3 mistakes got in the way of me having clear priorities for years as someone who’s highly multi-passionate. Let’s talk about how to avoid them.

Mistake #1: Feeling like all of my ideas needed to be acted upon at the same time

As a multi-passionate, I have a constant stream of ideas flooding through my mind at any given moment. A mistake I made was that I started taking action on all of them.

Here was my thought process at the time:

I was worried that if you didn’t act on all of my ideas, someone else would get to them before me.

I was afraid that I would lose interest if you didn’t get started NOW.

I was concerned that something else would come along and distract me.

There was an intense sense of urgency and it was really stressful. The result was that I would take action on everything and nothing would actually get done.

If you’ve found yourself making this mistake, please know that you’re not alone. One of the reasons I became a life coach for multi-passionates was to help others avoid repeating the same mistakes I did, and this is a big one.

The solution I can offer you today is to begin adopting what I call a “flexible long-term view.” That means focusing MORE on the way your ideas can come together organically over a longer stretch of time, and LESS on everything needing to happen right now.

If you have any questions about this or want to dive deeper into how to avoid this mistake, comment below, and let’s chat!

Mistake # 2: Thinking that a new planner was going to magically create clear priorities for me

This one is kind of funny but I’ve done it SO many times. Once I would finally decide that I wanted to get my priorities in order, the first thing I would do is go buy a new planner (and colorful pens and stickers).

It turns out that trying to outsource my ability to create priorities to a planner, was keeping me from having a process for creating priorities that actually worked for me as a multi-passionate.

Eventually, I stopped buying new planners and focused on creating a system that I call The Priority Mapping Method.

It’s too much to go into in this article, but you can check out my free training linked at the end of this article if you want to learn more.

Mistake #3: Choosing something to prioritize but second-guessing myself so often that I end up doing something else instead

Ughhh. I would finally figure out what to prioritize, but then I would hit a roadblock and start thinking thoughts like:

How do I know if this is the right thing?

Am I even going to be able to stick with this long-term?

I haven’t been able to complete anything in the past, what’s going to make this any different?

When all that self-doubt was present my other ideas would start looking real good.

If you’re multi-passionate, I know you can relate to this mistake. Shiny object syndrome gets the best of us when we’re already second-guessing ourselves.

I finally cracked the code on this when I started focusing more on gaining momentum, tracking my progress, and celebrating my wins along the way. This remedied my self-doubt and helped me stay the course.

How to avoid these mistakes

You can avoid ALL of these mistakes and more by learning a simple, repeatable process I created specifically for multi-passionates called: The Priority Mapping Method.

I break it all down in my free training. Register HERE for instant access and I’ll see you over there!

D’Ana Joi is a life coach for multi-passionates and host of the Multi-Passionate Mastery Podcast. She believes having many talents is a gift, not a burden, and helps creatives from all walks of life break free from the pressure of doing “all the things” at once.