Tyranny of the urgent
Have you ever wished for a 30-hour day? Surely this extra time would relieve the tremendous pressure under which we live.
Our lives leave a trail of unfinished tasks.
Unanswered letters, unvisited friends, unwritten articles, and unread books haunt quiet moments when we stop to evaluate.
We desperately need relief..
But would a 30-hour day really solve the problem?
Wouldn’t we soon be just frustrated as we are now with our 24-hour allotment?
A mother’s work is never finished, and neither is that of any manager, student, minister, or anyone else we know.
So we find ourselves working more and enjoying it less.
When we stop to evaluate, we realize that our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time.
It is basically the problem of priority.
We have left undone those things, which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.
YOUR GREATEST DANGER is letting the urgent things crowd out the important.
We live in constant tension between the urgent and the important.
The problem is that the important task rarely need to be done today, or even this week.
The urgent task calls for instant action---- endless demands, pressure every hour and day.
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