If you don’t make a conscious choice to recharge, the burnout will choose for you. It’s also important to slow down to avoid burnout. When that success is achieved, it’s important to stop to celebrate it. It’s hard to pull the reins on a charging horse, especially when that horse is persuasively telling you he’s the priority! But if you’ve gotten alignment on your goals (as shared in tip #1), then you have a clear picture of success. All of these steps allow people to ensure that their daily tasks are aligned with the target objective. And make sure everyone is on the same page by setting appropriate deadlines. How do people know when they’ve reached it? If you are looking up directions to get from Point A to Point B, you have to know the specific location of that Point B, right? Getting clarity on these goals will help you make decisions on whether or not a task needs your immediate attention.īe super-specific about what success looks like. Establish priorities for the team and the projects.
Make sure your team’s goals are congruent and aligned. If we want to focus on the important rather than just the urgent, we have to know what the important actually is. Here are 3 big ways you and your team can avoid the tyranny of the urgent. The great news is that there IS something you can do to take action against this pitfall. We lose momentum, forget the bigger picture, and simply burn out. When the important is always taking a backseat to the urgent, that’s when we have a problem. Unfortunately, we often spend our whole day reacting to urgent tasks instead of acting on the truly important things - the things that give us a sense of value and fulfilment. These urgent tasks disguise themselves as “important” with notifications, beeps, reminders, and memos.
They are the daily interruptions that constantly want the spotlight: meetings, emails, texts, and a general overload of data. To sum it up, it’s all the distractions of modern-day life that demand our attention but don’t actually move us towards a bigger goal. Hummel wrote about it in the 1960s in his book of the same name. This is where the phrase “tyranny of the urgent” comes from. But what are we busy doing? Oftentimes, busy doesn’t actually equal productive. These days, if we aren’t busy, then we feel like something’s wrong.
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