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This episode talks about the feeling of constant urgency and overwhelm that can make everyday tasks feel like emergencies. It encourages listeners to shift from reacting to everything immediately to responding with calm awareness, helping reduce stress and regain a sense of control.
Welcome to the Daily Energized Podcast, your quick dose of clarity, quick tips, and the
spark you need to shine bright.
Here's your host, Spencer Jones.
Happy day, happy day.
I hope you are ready for an amazing day, a day that's happy.
A day that's filled with joy, with love, with positives, and abundance all around.
That's my hope and wish for you on this beautiful day.
Do you ever go, I don't know why, this seems to happen sometimes on Mondays, but on Tuesdays
oftentimes, where life just feels urgent.
Like we have this constant pressure and everything feels like it has to happen right now, right
in this moment.
You know, I'd say I don't know why, but I think I have an idea why, and I'm going
to share that here shortly, and maybe you've experienced it, and if you are, you're
not alone, and maybe it's on Tuesdays, or maybe it's another day of the week, maybe
you've just experienced it at times before, but it's no fun.
It's no fun living under that pressure where everything feels super urgent.
It's for me, when I feel that way, I get overwhelmed really quickly, and it's probably
why things feel urgent, because I just feel like things are stacking up over and over
and over and over again, and I can never seem to catch up.
And it's frustrating.
I almost feel like I'm suffocating to a degree, and I'm just doing the best I can to tread
water, to keep my head above water.
When I've talked with energizers about this feeling, that's one of the ways they describe
it as well.
Man, I'm just trying to keep up.
I feel like I'm treading water, I'm just doing everything I can to keep my head above
water, is some of the ways they describe it.
Maybe you've felt that way before too.
Now the cause of it, I believe, and I could be wrong, but one of the bigger causes of it
is living in this reactive mode all the time.
We just have to react to this, take care of this, and just we were so reactive, instead
of responding.
Now a reaction is a response, but a reaction is usually an immediate response, like it's
a snap.
Boom, we got to do this.
Boom, we got to do that.
Boom, we got to do that.
As opposed to taking a little bit of a pause, it doesn't have to be a long pause, even
just a breath, and then responding, so we were being a little calmer about it.
When we live in that reaction mode, or that reactive mode, it trains our nervous system
to treat everything, every single thing like a threat, and society plays a role in it
too of how it's trained us, the commercials and movies and shows, and all that stuff.
It trains us to feel like everything needs to be urgent, but not everything does, actually
very few things are truly urgent, are truly that threat.
Now yes, some things are, 100%, but not everything.
What I believe we need to do, and this is a beautiful thing that we do in our energy
sovereignty boot camp in our 12-month energy nexus program, is we help energizers recognize,
hold on, this is not a threat.
I can turn this around, and I can actually respond, and come from a safe and grounded
place.
If you want to join us, if you haven't yet, come join us, be awesome to have you, and if
you haven't yet, that's okay.
You can still do this on your own, and totally can't.
We need to turn our response around, and retrain our nervous system to not treat everything
like a threat, because not every single thing is a threat.
One of the ways to help you shift that around, to turn that around for you, is to ask
yourself a simple question, is this truly urgent, or is it just loud?
It's like when I was teaching, you know, who kids who, and maybe you saw this in the
classroom when you were in school, you know, the kids who get the most attention are usually
the loudest ones, yeah, because they're annoying, right?
And so they give them the attention, and who knows what's going on in their home life,
that's one of the things I learned a lot, is they're seeking attention for a variety
of different reasons.
And so if we can dig deeper, that's, we can dig deeper for that.
But that's not what this episode's about.
However, when these situations arise that feel urgent, we ask ourselves a question, is
this truly urgent, or just loud, then choose one priority, and let the rest be secondary,
okay?
This is the one priority I need to take care of right now, this is it, everything
else can wait.
Maybe wait some, done with that, next, that priority that I'm working on, because this
is a numero, no, right, this is a big one, then I'll bring in everything else.
Urgency, oftentimes, is unexamined momentum.
So we're moving forward, moving forward, moving forward, but it's unexamined, you're not
sure exactly which way, so you're moving forward, but it's in all the directions.
So you're going nowhere fast, and it feels fast by doing this, it feels like you're going
someplace as opposed to, all right, let's pick a direction, this is where we're going,
this is the focus, then things start to fall online.
That clarity is huge, as Chas Wilson says, clarity is your permission slipped to go fast.
And so are you clear, are you clear about what is truly urgent, and what isn't, and
then not only knowing it, but following through with it, because knowing it's one thing, let's
just be aware of it, knowing it is one thing, but you need to still follow through.
So something to think about, as we go on this week, do you feel urgent, are the things
that feel urgent, are they truly urgent, or are they just loud?
All right, thank you so much for hopping in, joining me, keep being you as always, keep
shining your amazing light with the world.
And until next time, I'll catch you later.

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