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Monday, January 11, 2010

How to develop a sense of urgency

There are life situations that require quick responses and results to avoid living through difficult times with negative consequences. Generally, it is not difficult to have a sense of urgency to act, or rather to react and try to avoid the worst. Despite the fact that these situations do not occur, at least, should not occur too often in life, you must still take action and be quick to resolve these unpleasant situations of your life.

How do you act when you are not ine crises mode? Are you among those who have the habit of putting off what you could undertake right away? If so, you're among the majority of people on this planet.

It should be understood that I mean mainly of projetcs life, projects that are buried deep within your heart. I do not speak daily tasks, still I imagine that if you make procrastination in your normal life, it is not difficult to understand why you do the same thing with larger projects .

Far from me the idea to criticize anyone for such behavior. The reasons are too numerous, to rationally to explain this behavior and in many cases there are good reasons to do so.

The idea here is to discover how to succeed in creating a sense of urgency to get you out of torpor, fear, inertia blocking the realization of your projects. There is no recipe, there are only triggers feelings, emotions motivating to help you start the engine of concrete action.

What I consider the most important thing in this approach is to accept the fact that the success of your projects will be the result of several factors, many of these factors are not under your control. This simply means that luck is definitely part of the equation for success, but when you go into action and you persevere, the odds of being lucky increased considerably.

Why dare to try if my chances of success are minimal?
First and foremost because you still have a chance to succeed and also because what you discover along the way will be invaluable for the rest of your life. If you are looking a bit in your memory, you will find that most things you learned were when you were doing projects, activities in which you had to engage seriously.

I am convinced that in many cases, you had always a sense of urgency in one form or another and that even if you did not achieved the desired goal, you have accumulated knowledge and expertise that have been useful and practical for the rest of your life.

The main reason why you dare, is that by making plans you learn, you evolve and you truly enjoys life.

Create a sense of urgency is driving the action, if you do not set a goal with dates, it is unlikely that you will create that sense of urgency essential to motivate you to act and put the energy behind it, you would at least give you a chance to achieved some parts of your project.

Once you start the engine by creating your sense of urgency, you must stick emotion to your project so that the engine continued to run, let you advance and keep you alive, that is to say keep on action.

Tell me how you manage to create that sense of urgency for your projects?