When Things Get Loud

“One of the temptations at a time of tremendous flux and change is to fixate upon the immediate challenges…”

_Carl R. Trueman, Strange New World

Occasionally a quote stays with you.

I’ll never forget the little placard that stated, “Your lack of planning does not constitute an emergency for me.”

I’ve been on both sides of that equation.

Something I’ve learned is that whatever is the loudest or most urgent is usually not what I need to be spending most of my time on.

Just because someone is tugging at my coat sleeve doesn’t mean I need to drop what I’m doing.

“Popups” and “Notifications” are seldom in the same category as “important.”

The doorbell is usually the UPS or Amazon delivery person…it can wait.

The ONE THING for today: Do not to be driven by the urgent and immediate.  They may matter at some level, but to give them veto power over the truly important is to risk sabotaging what really matters to you.  

The truly important is seldom the loudest or the most obvious.