“Work with a sense of urgency” is some of the worst business advice we’ve ever gotten.
Urgency to us feels like getting caught in a heavy cloud; a confusing, unsettling insistence to do… SOMETHING.
To get out of it, we usually decide to take a bunch of random action to A) show we take this urgency seriously and B) stop feeling this shitty urgency.
Now, does all the shooting-from-the-hip actually accomplish anything? Irrelevant when you’re in urgency mode!
It’s a huge distraction from doing work that matters and creates a lot of anxiety around our work – often to the detriment of our creative practice.
In urgency, there’s:
- A load of unhelpful thoughts running rampant.
- Frenetic energy that creates uncertainty.
- No time to build trust with yourself.
NONE of which contribute to feeling solid and steady in your business or creative pursuits.
Also, like… where’s the urgency actually coming from? And why?
This episode of PodMakers explores the concept of urgency, where we suspect it comes from (collectively and individually), and what to do instead of spinning ourselves into a hole in the ground.
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Episode 12: Normalizing the Fear of Making Mistakes
