After you have evaluated the impacts and costs for a few potential changes, you can narrow down to a single change to focus on. Trying to make multiple changes all at once can be tricky; avoid it unless the changes are interrelated.

When choosing which change to implement, start first with ones that have these characteristics:

• Large Impacts, Low Costs
  Changes that give you the greatest impact for the least cost are often an easy place to start and can give you momentum to make other changes.
• Indirect Impacts
  Changes that not only give you a direct benefit, but provide indirect benefits elsewhere in your life help you amplify the impact of a change. Foundational changes can have an impact across your entire life.
• Removal / Change Activities
  Activity changes can involve removing them, adding them or changing them. Because your time is fixed, adding new activities requires removing or changing existing ones. Thus, it becomes a two-step process. If you focus on the removal/change step, the add step will become easier.

If you find yourself resisting an obvious choice, think about whether there are emotional impacts or costs you hadn’t considered. It may be that a hard change to make provides a huge positive emotional impact that you haven’t accounted for, or that the negative emotional cost of enacting the change is greater than you thought.