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Ever heard of the tyranny of the urgent?\u00a0 I think there is another tyranny just as destructive and that\u2019s the tyranny of the immediate.<\/p>\nEver heard of the tyranny of the urgent?\u00a0 I think there is another tyranny just as destructive and that\u2019s the tyranny of the immediate.<\/p>\n
How many times have we heard, or said ourselves, \u201cI\u2019ve gotta have it now.\u201d\u00a0 We\u2019ve got to fix the marriage now, we\u2019ve got to lose the weight now, we\u2019ve got to get out of debt now, now, now, now.\u00a0 It\u2019s immediate.\u00a0 The truth is most of us didn\u2019t get ourselves 20 or 30 pounds overweight overnight and it\u2019s not going to come off overnight, but over time.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s by the tyranny of the immediate that marriages have been broken,<\/strong> businesses have been dissolved and partnerships have been ruptured.\u00a0 It\u2019s the tyranny of the immediate that keeps us from reading good books, listening to good music, or cultivating relationships with our children.<\/p>\n It\u2019s the tyranny of the immediate that makes us poor in spirit, thin in soul, and shallow in thinking.<\/strong> It keeps us from setting aside time to think, to pray, to consider.\u00a0 It even tells us we\u2019re too busy to go to church on Sunday morning and worship our creator.<\/p>\n If you want to do yourself a big favor, get off the merry-go-round of the immediate.<\/strong> Stop ordering miracle diets, thigh-masters, and gut-busters.\u00a0 Realize that anything worth having is going to take time.\u00a0 Getting in shape and being healthy takes time.\u00a0 Cultivating a skill set that allows you to excel at what you do and to make a better income takes time.\u00a0 It takes commitment, a long-term mentality that says, \u201cI am in this for as long as it takes.\u201d<\/p>\n Trust me, God created you to live a big life.<\/strong> Here is what BIG stands for: beyond the immediate to the goal.<\/em> Think of it.\u00a0 Every single day, when you\u2019re tempted to take a shortcut, to give into the tyranny of the immediate, remember your commitment to live BIG, beyond this immediate moment, beyond this decision, this urge, and this impulse to the goal.\u00a0 What\u2019s the goal?\u00a0 Only you can determine that.<\/p>\n And if you haven\u2019t determined it yet, that may be why you\u2019re in the grips<\/strong>, and you live in the tyranny of the immediate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ever heard of the tyranny of the urgent?\u00a0 I think there is another tyranny just as destructive and that\u2019s the tyranny of the immediate. How many times have we heard, or said ourselves, \u201cI\u2019ve gotta have it now.\u201d\u00a0 We\u2019ve got to fix the marriage now, we\u2019ve got to lose the weight now, we\u2019ve got to … Continue reading “The Tyranny of the Immediate”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}