Welcome to the Game Change Your Life podcast with Dave Anderson.

Now, here's Dave with an intentional mindset minute.

Welcome to Game Change Your Life. I'm Dave Anderson with another intentional mindset

minute where I share quick hits from my latest books, Intentional

Mindset, and Elevate Your Excellence. We post them on Fridays to help you think right, do right,

get better, and become more. Here is the topic. Two types of urgency. Now, contrary to popular

belief, all senses of urgency are not positive, helpful to performance or create it equally.

There is both a healthy and unhealthy version.

Now, a healthy sense of urgency plays to win.

It happens when we unite as a team, spend time at our own performance zone, where we're at our best,

and when we're battling external competitors.

An unhealthy sense is stressful. It occurs when we fight each other, are reacting, or playing

not to lose, and it leaves us feeling scattered, tired, and unaccomplished. A few things

everyone on a team can do to contribute to a healthy sense of urgency is to be on time. Do your job, focus on what

you can control, rejoice in your teammates' successes, and if you have a problem with someone

talk to them rather than about them. And if you're the leader on the team, you really set the tone

by either being an empowerer or a micromanager,

by leading from the front and staying in attack mode

versus leading from your rear end,

being continually caught by surprise

and reacting unproductively,

trying to make up lost ground caused through your own neglect.

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