Tag: urgency

It’ll be the same next year

Posted on by philipdodson

We get towards year ends and not only does that mean endless Facebook ‘My Year in Review’ posts but it also means we’ll say to ourselves ‘2018, it’s going to be a great year!!!’ then at the end 2018 we’ll say ‘well, this year didn’t quite go to plan, but 2019, it’s going to be a great year!!’ and then, the same cycle repeats.

It only changes when we take action to make the next year great. But the problem with making the ‘next year’ great, is a year is too big a time frame and the end of it is too far away to seem urgent enough.

What if we said ‘January 2018 is going to be a great month!!’? All of sudden it’s immediate and there is nowhere to hide.

Urgency

Posted on by philipdodson

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We must have a ‘sense of urgency’ is something that is often said in business, we need to ‘hustle’.

Is the need for ‘urgency’ or to ‘hustle’ more to do with the need to fit in and to be seen to be following the crowd, than any real business need. The people who will sell you the need for money, will tell you that you need to be ‘hustling’, you have ‘no time to waste’.

There is no fire, there is no life/death deadlines, there is no need to behave to a formulaic pattern, laid out by the ‘wise’.

Standard, generic and easily replicable stuff needs urgency, as if you don’t sell it like ‘hot cakes’, then someone else will or can, thus stealing your prize.

If you want to create remarkable things, that takes time, patience, and means sticking to what you truly believe in. You have to be prepared to invest time, as the very best takes practice and takes a commitment to whatever time it takes to happen.

Urgency is created by those who have no time for the remarkable, only for the now and immediate gratification.

Creating is for people who have all the time in the world, and a desire to do the best that they can.

Don’t get sucked into urgency, be bold and spend time to create your own thing and have faith in your way of doing things.