- Life As a House
- Wherever You Go, There You Are
- The Urgency Factor
- Getting Back in Balance
The Urgency Factor
What is The Urgency Factor? Look at how we live life nowadays. How many of us are wired and high-teched to distraction? Fifteen years ago, few of us had cellphones. Now we can't go to the local video store without calling home to our spouse or significant other with the movie selection. In fact, as more municipalities passed ordinances banning talking on cellphones while driving, what was the logical next step? It wasn't to understand that driving takes our full attention or to understand this can be dangerous and simply concentrate on the road. No, many people ran out and got hands-free cellphones.
And email. We're getting and sending emails at hours when it would be inappropriate to make a business call. After 9:00 at night, after 11:00 at night, and sometimes even on weekends. We're guilty of working to the wee hours, too.
But, in the end, what is so urgent? Why do we feel we have to be wired 24/7? What is it that can't wait until tomorrow? Why do we put our technology before our families and before ourselves? We've taken this trend for granted, without questioning how it is throwing our lives out of balance. It's causing some of the rooms in our house to become so large as to threaten the very foundation of our housesand these rooms take away from the rooms that should be bigger.