Urgency Gets Things Done FSTR (Motivational Message)

Posted by Vince Poscente on Wed, Aug 08, 2012 @ 04:55 PM

Urgency changes your approach.  Think of times in your life where urgency created extraordinary outcomes.  BUT… instead of being victim to urgent situations be the architect of your results. Use urgency as a useful tool.

You know the right tool can save you a vast amount of time.  The wrong wrench used in removing a goofy European automobile's oil-filter can take hours. The right wrench can take seconds.  Imagine being a motivational keynote speaker writing an essay with a quill on a piece of parchment versus writing it on a laptop computer with the appropriate software. It makes perfect sense to use the right tool to accomplish what you want. This frees you up to accomplish more (or have more free time) in another area.

Yet, some tools are not easily acquired.  Urgency is one of them. 

If urgency was a tool in your toolbox of skills, wouldn’t it be great to reach in and use it like a wrench?  Yet, urgency has naturally been dreaded as an external force, a force to handled, be coped with or managed. For example, NASA’s Apollo 13 mission got a dose of urgency when Jim Lovell radioed, “Houston, we have a problem.”  Urgency set in motion Gene Kranz(now a motivational keynote speaker) and his team. Mr. Kranz clarified their efforts with the words, “Failure is not an option.”

Urgency is the state of requiring immediate action.  It involves focusing your absolute attention. It is a quality that conveys earnestness or the need for doing something quickly.  It can be a pressing need.  Urgency implies importance and necessity. 

Negative connotations for urgency include pressure, stressing out, hurrying and rushing.

Urgency is the root word in emergency. If it’s an emergency, it can’t be good.  But if fast results are what you want, then it's to your benefit to turn urgency into a positive tool for you to use.

In the Olympics, if a tennis player knows she’s behind, urgency demands she step up her game.  By being overcome by the pressure, stressing out, hurrying or rushing, she can blow her chances of a comeback. If she uses urgency as a tool, she’ll quickly turn things around.  If she focuses on what’s necessary and important, she’ll improve her game and put momentum in her favor. That Urgency Monkey now climbs all over her opponent’s back. With enough of a killer instinct, she could keep building on the pressure to cause her opponent to choke.

Peak performers use urgency to their advantage.  The tennis player who did not panic stayed on her game.  She didn’t rush her strategy.  She didn’t hurry past opportunities to take advantage of certain shots.  Urgency as a tool was essential in her approach.

Reach into your tool-box and grab urgency as your own. Use it to build your business, drive sales, and get more of what you want in the business of life.

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NY Times bestselling author, Vince Poscente, is the founder of Libretto Publishing and has written five books translated into more fourteen languages. He writes about harnessing the speed of change, the way to reach BIG GOALS in less time, accelerating potential of human capital, how to get out of your own way and best of all, instant impact with lasting influence. Learn more about this expert on alignment, agility and efficiency.

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