The document discusses the negative impacts of constant urgency and interruptions in modern life. It argues that much of what seems urgent is not actually critical and is often used by incompetent people to assert control over others. Living in a constant state of urgency can lead to stress, depression, and prevent finding deeper meaning and purpose in life. True quality of life is based not on speed but on focusing on what is truly important and essential rather than being driven by artificial senses of urgency.

1. What the hurries are hiding.
By David Navarro.

2. The urgent thing kills us.
Its avidity has no limits.
It trends to invade us like
a voracious cancer

3. The urgency enters through the door...

4. ... Through the telephone, calls that demand an immediate answer...

5. works
that
must be
made
with
prowl

6. meetings are advanced to its scheduled time
for non sense reasons

7. e mails asking for reception
confirmation,
and immediate answer

8. ...interruptions of all type that, cheeky...

9. enter without calling
to steal our time

10. invading us under the shelter of a label that seems to justify the harassment:
“It is urgent!”

11. requiring incessantly that we
run marathon to rate of sprint.

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.

13. The causes of this daily mess are multiple

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

15. These profiles pretend to show authority positions

16. but with a lack of abilities that disable them to
be really competent.

17. The professionalism
and the efficiency tend to be
discreet, humble and elegant

18. Plain speaking, to be urgent
and to tighten are the same
thing, and the ones that does
not know to manage in an
efficient and human way...

19. trend to tighten unnecessarily people
surrounding them,

20. to become the dominant alpha of the herd

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!”

25. Expressions that show the folly of the human
being and an insane life style.

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

39. William James said “to be wise is the art of knowing what to ignore”

40. Perhaps we live
causing the urgency to fill the
emptiness that causes our
avidity, self enslaving us.

41. The feeling of
permanent urgency
disappears when we
realize that with the
essential things,

42. with what cannot be seen, with our affections, even only with ourselves, it is enough to us.