Coach Klyn's Weekly Word: Sense of Urgency

A sense of urgency is the key to success, everything now... nothing later.

Lesson of the Day

That quote was written in sharpie above my desk when I first started out as a headhunter for a medical recruiting firm in Orlando, Florida. Nothing fancy, just a white background with big, bold black lettering.

It served as a reminder to let go of the doubts and fears that held us back as we cold-called candidates and potential employers trying to stitch together a match. If you didn't hit your numbers, you stayed late.

Knowing my life is shorter than most, it had a different meaning for me. I have been ridiculously impatient since before I knew what impatience was. I remember sitting in those big plastic toy cars as a toddler, honking an imaginary horn, commanding my brother to push me to our pond because I absolutely had to make it there quicker than the neighbor kids to see the ducks. Deep down I knew it was only a matter of time before I was hospitalized again and the ducks would leave for the season.

I prided myself on being the first in the recruiting office every day to hit 100 dials. And I broke company record after record, reinforcing the belief that urgency was everything.

It wasn't that I was overly passionate. Or that recruiting was my life calling. It was that someone else understood me finally... that our life is worth living and we better get to it. When you have a goal, you shouldn't wait to achieve it.

Friends, let me ask you...do you have a sense of urgency for your life's work? For the life that exists inside the walls of your home or the goals that give you comfort when you're not with friends or family?

Others will tell you to create a bucketlist and check them off.

Seems to finite to me.

Dare I say it's a "fuck it list?" When are we going to remember to cast the fear, doubts, ridicule away and say "fuck it" I'm going for it?! And I'm not going to wait around, wasting time and breath when I'm called to PURSUE my dreams... NOW.

So what's an example of a fuck it list?

To call that person back.

To forgive.

To surprise someone with an unexpected act of kindness.

To work hard at something you believe in.

To put yourself out there in a place of vulnerability

To chase ducks in a pond with a sense of awe.

To have champagne at 2 pm on a Tuesday because you should always have a bottle of champagne in the fridge to pop whenever you want to because you're alive to experience the way it tastes for no reason other than you can.

I don't want to break it to ya, your unconscious can't handle the thought that it will cease to exist... Death is routinely credited with being our worst fear.

Are you afraid of dying? If so, I beg you to consider the fear is because it reflects the inadequacy of how you're living.

Living step by step.

Moment to moment.

With no urgency for your life.

Simply stitching memory to memory together without any comprehension that our blue marble is spinning 1000 miles per hour and we're missing out on all of it. Paying attention only to the distractions that don't matter, only to go on living more like it doesn't matter.

It matters. You matter.

Take a moment today and write your "fuck it" list. The joy of doing what you want, when you want it, in awe of the ducks in the pond, the chilled champagne in the fridge.

Klyn loves you.

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