Are You Governed By The Tyranny Of Immediacy?

"I will not be governed by the tyranny of immediacy."~Mary Anne Radmacher

Are you governed by the tyranny of immediacy? Do you allow others immediacy to govern you? Why? What do you get? Take control your life and stop that NOW! Here's an example; email. Do you keep it open and look at it as soon as they come in??? I hope not.  Here's a little exercise to try.  ONly look at your email twice a day.  Once at noon and then again at 5pm.  This will do 2 things; first it will give you a morning without other people's thoughts affecting yours and secondly it will teach you that you can go without email or texting constantly.

In today's microwave society, we want everything 2 minutes ago. We have lost the ability to have delayed gratification and are constantly seeking immediate gratification. Why?  I read a study that said that people look at their smartphones on average 150 times per day!!  That means in the 16 hours that you are awake, you are looking at your smartphone 9 times per hour!  Talk about immediate gratification!!

The problem with immediate gratification is that as fast as it comes, it's gone again that fast and then we need to find another source of gratification. It's a vicious cycle that never ends until we step back and slow down and stop the tyranny of immediacy.

Very often it's our friends and clients who try to impose the tyranny of THEIR immediacy on us. We need to learn to politely tell them that that we run our own life and that their issue while important, it doesn't rise to OUR immediacy level. Don't allow them to give your their issue.

Here's a challenge for today, don't allow the tyranny of immediacy to win even once today.

Know. Be Known. Make A Difference!

"I will not be governed by the tyranny of immediacy."