{"id":60313,"date":"2022-02-23T20:25:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T00:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=60313"},"modified":"2022-03-04T10:28:49","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T14:28:49","slug":"urgency-addiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/urgency-addiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Urgency Addiction: The Modern Dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Have you ever been faced with a crisis, come up with a solution, and felt that incredible sense of success and relief? How does a sense of urgency create a false sense of accomplishment? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although urgent situations are stressful, resolving them creates a high that you can become addicted to. However, urgency addiction is a self-destructive habit that only temporarily fills a void, whether it be the lack of a larger purpose or a desire for a sense of achievement.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s why handling urgency is so addictive, according to Stephen Covey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-urgency-addiction\"><strong>Urgency Addiction<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Attending to urgent tasks brings a sense of immediate accomplishment and an adrenaline rush. For some people, responding to urgency even becomes an addiction.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Traditional time management approaches, including to-do lists and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/how-to-schedule-your-day-2\/\">daily planning<\/a>, largely feed into this addiction by emphasizing efficiency and failing to allocate time for important tasks that aren\u2019t urgent. Making matters worse, our society tends to value busyness as an indicator of productivity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How often have you heard friends or coworkers talk about how busy they are with urgent tasks? Sometimes it seems to be used as a status symbol and fosters competition: If I\u2019m busier than you, I must be achieving more and doing more important things. But <strong>chronic busyness prevents us from recognizing and addressing the important \u201cfirst things,\u201d priorities, in our lives.<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Urgency addiction can cause you to seek out or even create more fires to put out by procrastinating and neglecting planning and prevention. Although some urgent tasks are necessary and unavoidable, when they dominate your life, there\u2019s little time left for important tasks. 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