The urgent has addictive properties. I want you to understand, we biologically,
biochemically get addicted to the urgent. And so there's an adrenaline rush. You
wonder why sometimes people put things off to the end? There's a lot of payoff.
Remember, everything we do we're doing it because there's some kind of payoff, okay?
And you have to look at that honestly and say, what is it? Like when we talked
about habits, we talked about the reward, right? The reward. So what's the reward
in that? The adrenaline rush, but there's also the reward that says, look what I
pulled off. There's a reward in that. There's a recognition in that. Look at
you, how you pulled that off in such a short time. I had that crazy pace and
and society rewarded it. The most common thing people would say to me is, I don't
know how you do it all. You're a wife and a mother and you run a corporation and
you run a foundation and you homeschool and you lead a Bible study and
you lead a speech and debate high school championship. And I don't know how you do
it all. I was so recognized. Oh, I feel so good. Absolute insanity. Craziness. What
was I thinking? Lose a huge part of your life. Just incredible pace, but everybody
recognizes it. Look at you. So we become addicted to this and so there's that
sense of excitement when when these problems are solved and and being busy
and stressed. It's a sadismal. It's a badge, you know, that I wear on
my lapel. It's a mark that I'm important, that I matter. I'm somebody. Look at me,
how busy and what I'm doing. I'm important. The difference of what true
importance is. The difference between urgent and important. See, the problem is
that the important tasks, they don't necessarily have to be done immediately.
Catch this. Catch this. And so for this reason, we can put them off. We can shove
them into tomorrow or next week or next month or next year or never. We can
put them off. We neglect things like exercise and eating right. We miss
important times with loved ones. We rush through times of growing spiritually,
of getting that revelation knowledge. We miss the opportunity to grow our minds,
grow our spirits. And it's usually not until we get a wake-up call. You get a
heart attack and then it's like, I guess I better start taking care of this body.
Because taking care of the body was incredibly important. We got to be in
this. This is the temple of the Holy Spirit. This is where God has chosen to
live. This is how God has chosen for me to operate while I'm on this
planet. Somewhere between, you know, whatever in 120 years, right? And I have a
choice to look at the important and say, this has got to carry me. And so I'm
going to have daily disciplines. It's going to be a priority.