Why It’s Important To Feel Urgency In Our Lives

TJ Rao
4 min readMar 15, 2021

I think we can all agree that our lives are too busy to be living without a sense of urgency. We are all constantly on the go, and it’s hard to find time for everything we need to do, but we also need to make time to do what we want to do. But without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value. It becomes something we do when we have time It is only when we are faced with an urgency that we will see the value in what we have been desiring. In other words, without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value. The sense of urgency can be provided by a deadline, the fear of missing an opportunity, or the need for an urgent change. The best time to start working on our goals is now. We can’t know what life will be like in the future, so we mustn’t waste time waiting for the perfect moment. If we want something, we should go for it now and we’ll see how good it feels to have it. If we want to achieve our goals, we need to feel an urgency that the world is passing us by. The power of urgency is that it’s the fuel that starts the engine. With urgency, we’ll be more motivated to take action.

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Why it’s important to feel an urgency in our lives

We get what we want and we want what we get. That’s an important way of looking at things, isn’t it? We have to get what we want because the alternative is not worth considering. It’s the principle of manifestation, which states that if we want something, we should go for it now and we’ll see how good it feels to have it.

The importance of urgency

Studies have shown that people are more likely to stick to their goals if they feel an urgency to achieve them. With an urgency to get things done, we won’t be sitting back waiting for things to happen to us. We will be motivated to take action, and when we do, we’ll feel great and start to see the benefit of our actions. This in turn will spur us to take further action. It’s no coincidence that those with the highest sense of urgency are also those who are likely to reach their goals, according to research. Many people want to do things, but they’re not in a hurry to do it. When we’re waiting for the perfect moment to begin, we don’t see the urgency of what we need to do. We may even start to feel anxious. The power of urgency can be used for the best of us and used against us.

How to Create Urgency

The power of urgency is that it’s the fuel that starts the engine. With urgency, we’ll be more motivated to take action. For example, if we want to lose weight, we can make that our goal now. It’s short term, and we can’t wait for the perfect moment. The instant we set our intention, we put the fuse to our engine and we will automatically start looking for ways to achieve it. We can create urgency by writing down our goal and linking it to our motivation. We can’t feel the need to achieve a goal if we don’t already know that we want it. We can create urgency by taking action towards that goal now. Maybe we don’t even need to start with physical activity — why not take a mini-breathing break to think about what we want. We can find it in ourselves if we truly want to do it.

Conclusion

Success is all about power. To be successful, we must know what our power is. If we are working hard towards our goal and feel like we are running into a brick wall, we must ask ourselves if there is something stopping us from achieving it. The answer is most likely there is something holding us back from getting the results w want. Finding a sense of urgency will give us the power to overcome this obstacle. It’s important to start with the small things. There will be times when things get a bit hectic and our sense of urgency will disappear. But we must be persistent and work at our goals. We will feel an urgency that it is the right thing to do.

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