11 October 2022

Mediocre people choose lives of mediocrity. It's not that they aren't smart enough or lucky enough or attractive enough – they just don’t make the choice to pursue a life of excellence. People who live lives of excellence, on the other hand, make intentional choices (I'm not saying they don't experience setbacks - I'm saying they approach their day differently).

Imagine with me for a moment, what if there was a way to ignite the success forces within you? Would you practice it?

If we knew something about the difference between those who live in mediocrity and those who live, move, and breathe with specific intention, do you think that could help us to have more success in our lives? You bet it could.

How Do We Ignite the ‘Success Forces’ Within Us?

The answer may seem somewhat hidden, but I assure you it is not hidden to the men and women of success and high achievement. If you want to have real success in your life, then you absolutely MUST move from moment to moment with a SENSE OF URGENCY. It is living each moment with a sense of purpose and direction.

Have you ever seen a boxer accidently bump heads with his opponent and get a cut over his eye? I have. And let me tell you: once he gets that cut above his eye on the brow, he starts moving with a sense of urgency...big time. Why? Because he knows the referee can now stop the fight at any moment.

Attacking Each Hour with a Sense of Urgency

You need to start attacking each hour and minute of the day with the same sense of urgency as the boxer would when in a bout with an opponent.

If you never made time for your personal vision, or never followed through on your goals to get in shape and lose weight, and an Angel came along one day and said, ‘you have just 4 hours left to live your life unless you do this’, do you think that would motivate you and make a difference? Some of you may say ‘no it wouldn't’...but I'm guessing most people would agree that they'd move with a greater sense of urgency.

Live Life Intentionally

It is this type of self-motivation that will move you further and faster than you ever did before in your life. Approach your day in this way and in no time, you'll begin to see a new person staring back at you in the mirror. Living with a sense of urgency and intention tells the mind that you are going to be relentless until you meet with success. A sense of urgency provides immediate focus to the tasks that must be done. Before you know it, momentum builds and carries you towards achievement.

Waking up at 5:00 am each morning to some would be unimaginable; for a person living with urgency and intention it is this very way in which one prepares to be an effective person, leader, or business owner. With urgency, you perform at a higher level of accomplishment. It becomes unacceptable for you not to.

Urgency creates a reality that anything is possible or attainable and this is where your creative imagination will uncover a way to make it happen. Approach your day, your work and yourself as though your life depended on it. Because it does! Only you can decide what you would be willing to do and when it is going to happen. Decide today and then act on it with a sense of urgency. Success will follow.