Robbing urgency

# Chapter 300

This is nuts. The tyranny of the urgent is creeping up again into my life where like strangler vine, it takes over the entire life and then there is nothing left except the hopelessness of urgency itself. Its like a disease, its like the worst cancer ever, and it eats away at your time, your energy, your motivation, your inspiration and your efforts to change the world. Its a poisonous viper that wants to sleep in your bed. It is a wedge between all relationships and significance. You can never complete the important, because urgency is unrelenting, it will never quit stalking you and hunting you and it always takes a disportionate amount of everything in your life, in relationship to its importance.

How to put this particular evil genie back in its bottle and keep it there? Your milage may vary, but I still find “no” to be the most consistently powerful counter-measure to urgency. But if you are one of those people who have a difficult time finding your “no” even when the situation is not intense, then this likely will not work for you. The is the equivalent of yelling no in the face of a hurricane. And if you can find it within yourself to shout this no, then you may find it works for you like it does me. Other genie-stopping measures may be allowing your calendar to drive all the important stuff in your life and if it ain’t on the calendar, then it ain’t gonna happen. Calendar discipline is something that others are really good at. Or perhaps you have a matrix, a funnel or process that you make everything work through. That too would rob urgency of its power if you can hold firm.