#002 The Internal Drive of Urgency

Mind Shift with Erwin & Aaron McManus

Erwin McManus + Aaron McManus

Entrepreneurship, Business

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🗓️ 30 June 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Time is perceived differently by people who have urgency. When you lack urgency, time just flies. It just moves faster than you can keep up with. One of the things that people say to me all the time is, you seem so calm. You seem to have an incredible sense of peace or calm, even when there's a crisis. That is because I live my life with urgency. Time is never moving to me faster than I'm moving. When you have urgency, you're moving faster than time. A lot of times crisis become urgent because it's a cris. But there are other things that are in life that are super important and you have to bring the urgency to it because it's not a crisis. And let's say, for instance, it's not a crisis that I don't work out today, but it might be urgent because if I don't work out, it will become a crisis with my health. And so the challenge sometimes is that it seems that crisis is the only way many people are motivated. But if you have urgency, you do not need a crisis to live your life doing the important things. Urgency has to be an internal driver.

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0:00.0	You were listening to MindShift, a brand new podcast by Owen Raphael McManus and Aaron McManus.
0:05.2	Hi, that's me. A podcast focus and dedicated on destroying your internal limitations.
0:11.6	It doesn't take a genius to think like one and we're going to prove it.
0:15.9	All right, here we go. Welcome. This is episode two. That's exciting. I'm very excited.
0:21.9	We are just starting somewhere out here in Los Angeles. It seems like the gloom has gone away
0:27.8	and we're going to have some sunny days ahead of us, which means a lot of great conversations
0:31.9	with a lot more happiness. I'm not getting my hopes up. Isn't it sad that we are basically the
0:38.2	other channel? We had one day of sunshine and they went gloomy again. It's sunny today. That's
0:42.8	right. This is day two in the last 10 months. So I'm not necessarily banking on the fact that it's
0:48.7	going to be sunny tomorrow. But it's okay. It's okay. We love LA. We pay high taxes so we can have
0:55.2	gloomy days. So two weeks ago, we had Father's Day and me and you snuck away and got some breakfast
1:01.4	and had some time together and we were talking about life as we always do and work and life and
1:06.4	family and all the different things. And while we were waiting on banana pancakes and you said this
1:12.7	and I wrote it down, you said, when you feel like life is passing you by, it's because you lack
1:18.9	it's because you lack urgency. And when you don't have urgency, time moves faster than you.
1:25.5	Yes. Can you tell us what you meant? So what happened as I was in a conversation with
1:30.8	Joe Smith from Mosaic and we have a conversation about urgency. And one of the first things that
1:38.1	came to my mind, it was how time is perceived differently by people who have urgency.
1:44.1	That when you lack urgency, time just flies. It just moves faster than you can keep up with. And
1:52.4	and he was he was asking about my own relationship to urgency and time. And I said one of the things
1:58.4	that people say to me all the time is you seem so calm. You seem to have an incredible sense of
2:03.8	peace or calm even when there's a crisis. And so there's a reason for that is because I live my
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