12. Diverse studies maintain that it is possible to lose until 80% of the working day in interruptions generated by
the apparently urgent thing. In most cases is evident that it was not critical at all.
There are really urgent and important questions, but are less of those than we think.
14. Without doubt, one of
most common is
that there is who lives to
cause the chaos
and the anguish from the
urgency to assure its
control, its power and its
position,
becoming in reality
an impertinent
mosquito,
a pain maker
21. The urgency is in many cases
an eloquent disguise of the incompetence, the
cretinism and the own inner emptiness.
22. there are more and more people
depressed in the labour
surroundings due to the pressure
and to the anguish, clear symptoms
of the urgency
23. This is so popular, that in many professionals
abounds phrases in the line of “in all the
day I have not had a little while to go to the
restroom” (Can you imagine?)
24. “Next week I can neither be ill nor have a
crisis: I have full agenda already”
“I am late to my yoga session: what stress!”
26. Voices of stressed anonymous professionals,
imprisoned or victims of “ the urgent
thing “ brought by a third party and often,
also, by themselves.
27. A part of the problem is the haste that everybody has
28. Many people have not found
the sense of their lives;
for that reason,
they run constantly looking for it.
29. Many are enslaved
thinking about the
next car, the next
house, the next work.
Later they discover
that those things also
are empty, and
continue running
30. Instead of looking for the deep and intimate
causes of the urgency in our inner self, it is
easier the use of analgesics or cheap disguises
to mask the acute pain
31. Or even the use of milky
products or
multivitamins that
promises to reinforce our
defences, so we do not
stop until we burst.
32. Sadly enough, that is valid for the small ones of
the house, that must go all the day to top.
33. In addition, we live in a society in love with
the techniques that provide short cuts, and is
hard to us to accept that quality of life will not
arrive from the way of the short cuts.
But the temporary lightening that the short
cuts contribute to us, gives us forces that we
use to be more and more occupied in other
things, without even stop to think deeply if
what we do is, in reality, the most important
thing, what it brings more value to the
project, to the task, to the relationship, to the
environment, to ourselves.
34. Hardly the quality of life is based on the rapidity, and less on the urgency.
It has more importance what you do, and how you do it,
than the speed in making it.
35. There is a paradox that by misfortune occurs very frequently in our days:
good professionals, that apply enormous amounts of time and resources to analyze and to
manage even the smallest detail of their company, even of each product and service,
are incapable to manage with a minimum of common sense their own life.
36. Why is that?
Perhaps by laziness, ignorance, haste, fear. Or because to reinvent themselves is an
exercise that requires much honesty and bravery. Or because they did not even have
considered it. Or because nobody has told them that it is possible and it is not foolish.
37. When the essential stops the urgent thing
All we know that someday we will die, but it is hard to believe it.
Probably only when life does a strong attention call to us through the unexpected disease,
the serious accident or the death of the loved being, only then we face the essential,
the crucial subjects of life that normally have to do with the common sense,
with what do we live for, or with love.
38. Then the urgency suddenly goes to
hell, and the important things,
the essential, arises with a clearness
that makes to be embarrassed
the so-called wise people