Urgency

Two Of My Favorite Words

Garth Beyer

Agency and urgency.

Agency means we have a choice. We always have a choice. Everything that happens, we’ve done something that lead to it. If we want something different in the future, we only need to change our present actions, and agency means we can do that.

Urgency, in my opinion, is more powerful than agency. Urgency can outrun agency. Urgency is like looking at tasks as if they were 100 meter runs. You’re running too fast to think if your leg is sore, if the shoes don’t fit right, if you have friends in the stands cheering you on or enemies up close hoping you fall behind. Urgency means you give up a bit of agency, a bit of observation of what’s around you while you focus just on what’s ahead.

Agency is about exploring options and then acting on one of them. Urgency is about acting on it quickly.

If you’re confused, hurt, or worried, you need to recognize you have agency.

If you’re afraid, fed up with your lack of success, or nervous, you need to grab hold of urgency.

 

Stay Positive & Fail Fast To Succeed Faster, Choice Is Yours

 

Early Urgency

Garth Beyer

Sometimes guilty myself, I always hear people say “I need more time”.

Those who mutter these words are likely the ones doing, acting, creating and following through. When you feel that you need more time it ignites a sense of urgency, hectic-ness, and haste. It is what needs to happen before you accomplish and ship anything valuable.

There is a way to just let time flow and “enjoy” yourself. Only through mediocre, dull and banal achievements can you do this. It’s easy. You do less and you get more time to do even less. No need to worry about haste making waste.

However, there is a way to have both and that is through Early Urgency. It’s a talent that can be attained by anyone willing to take control of their efforts, initiative and mind-set and who want more time to enjoy themselves and their accomplishments.

Early Urgency is making yourself flail (sometimes confused with fail), early. It is expediting your efforts before your deadline to ship. By doing so, you have all that time, from when you finished early to the deadline, where you can relax and enjoy yourself.

Warning: For some reason, the side effect to Early Urgency is that there are more phenomenal products being shipped early, never a peep about needing more time, and rarely ever, does someone want to just let time flow to enjoy themselves. They get all the enjoyment they need out of the frequent act of shipping their creations.

 

Stay Positive & Quicken Your Pace To Win The Race (To The Top)

Garth E. Beyer