Everything Feels Urgent

0:00Welcome to the Daily Energized Podcast, your quick dose of clarity, quick tips, and the spark you need to shine bright. Here's your host, Spencer Jones. Happy day, happy day. I hope you are ready for an amazing day, a day that's happy. A day that's filled with joy, with love, with positives, and abundance all around. That's my hope and wish for you on this beautiful day. Do you ever go, I don't know why, this seems to happen sometimes on Mondays, but on Tuesdays oftentimes, where life just feels urgent. Like we have this constant pressure and everything feels like it has to happen right now, right in this moment. You know, I'd say I don't know why, but I think I have an idea why, and I'm going to share that here shortly, and maybe you've experienced it, and if you are, you're

1:01not alone, and maybe it's on Tuesdays, or maybe it's another day of the week, maybe you've just experienced it at times before, but it's no fun. It's no fun living under that pressure where everything feels super urgent. It's for me, when I feel that way, I get overwhelmed really quickly, and it's probably why things feel urgent, because I just feel like things are stacking up over and over and over and over again, and I can never seem to catch up. And it's frustrating. I almost feel like I'm suffocating to a degree, and I'm just doing the best I can to tread water, to keep my head above water. When I've talked with energizers about this feeling, that's one of the ways they describe it as well. Man, I'm just trying to keep up. I feel like I'm treading water, I'm just doing everything I can to keep my head above water, is some of the ways they describe it. Maybe you've felt that way before too.

2:02Now the cause of it, I believe, and I could be wrong, but one of the bigger causes of it is living in this reactive mode all the time. We just have to react to this, take care of this, and just we were so reactive, instead of responding. Now a reaction is a response, but a reaction is usually an immediate response, like it's a snap. Boom, we got to do this. Boom, we got to do that. Boom, we got to do that. As opposed to taking a little bit of a pause, it doesn't have to be a long pause, even just a breath, and then responding, so we were being a little calmer about it. When we live in that reaction mode, or that reactive mode, it trains our nervous system to treat everything, every single thing like a threat, and society plays a role in it too of how it's trained us, the commercials and movies and shows, and all that stuff.

3:03It trains us to feel like everything needs to be urgent, but not everything does, actually very few things are truly urgent, are truly that threat. Now yes, some things are, 100%, but not everything. What I believe we need to do, and this is a beautiful thing that we do in our energy sovereignty boot camp in our 12-month energy nexus program, is we help energizers recognize, hold on, this is not a threat. I can turn this around, and I can actually respond, and come from a safe and grounded place. If you want to join us, if you haven't yet, come join us, be awesome to have you, and if you haven't yet, that's okay. You can still do this on your own, and totally can't. We need to turn our response around, and retrain our nervous system to not treat everything like a threat, because not every single thing is a threat.

4:04One of the ways to help you shift that around, to turn that around for you, is to ask yourself a simple question, is this truly urgent, or is it just loud? It's like when I was teaching, you know, who kids who, and maybe you saw this in the classroom when you were in school, you know, the kids who get the most attention are usually the loudest ones, yeah, because they're annoying, right? And so they give them the attention, and who knows what's going on in their home life, that's one of the things I learned a lot, is they're seeking attention for a variety of different reasons. And so if we can dig deeper, that's, we can dig deeper for that. But that's not what this episode's about. However, when these situations arise that feel urgent, we ask ourselves a question, is this truly urgent, or just loud, then choose one priority, and let the rest be secondary, okay? This is the one priority I need to take care of right now, this is it, everything

5:06else can wait. Maybe wait some, done with that, next, that priority that I'm working on, because this is a numero, no, right, this is a big one, then I'll bring in everything else. Urgency, oftentimes, is unexamined momentum. So we're moving forward, moving forward, moving forward, but it's unexamined, you're not sure exactly which way, so you're moving forward, but it's in all the directions. So you're going nowhere fast, and it feels fast by doing this, it feels like you're going someplace as opposed to, all right, let's pick a direction, this is where we're going, this is the focus, then things start to fall online. That clarity is huge, as Chas Wilson says, clarity is your permission slipped to go fast. And so are you clear, are you clear about what is truly urgent, and what isn't, and then not only knowing it, but following through with it, because knowing it's one thing, let's just be aware of it, knowing it is one thing, but you need to still follow through. So something to think about, as we go on this week, do you feel urgent, are the things

6:11that feel urgent, are they truly urgent, or are they just loud? All right, thank you so much for hopping in, joining me, keep being you as always, keep shining your amazing light with the world. And until next time, I'll catch you later.