Have we thought about the harm caused by prolonged urgency?
Urgency is exhausting…
What stories do I tell myself to justify and perpetuate urgency?
“I don’t have a moment to spare!”
I grow impatient.
I commoditize my time and "measure" productivity and efficiency.
When I am running with an Urgent Mindset I will even notice, “This doesn’t feel so good!”
But...
Time gets distorted.
There is (always) way too much that I didn’t complete.
A "solution" comes back to bite.
Urgency is part of a scarcity mindset. Urgency robs us of feeling a sense of abundance.
How might I counter or transform urgency? There are ways!
Can I measure instead the quality of my inner experience? How am I growing? How am I learning? How are my relationships? When I start to measure something else that’s more qualitative, urgency transforms.
What if I encourage and reward curiosity?
What if I value the power of a good question, relying more on questions than answers?
I can also counter urgency by taking time to attend to relationships for their own sake.
