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Urgent? Is it really?

Muhammad Armaghan Tanveer
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4 min readOct 25, 2023

False urgency is making you lose the game of life!

Photo by Artem Maltsev on Unsplash

We are a generation of busy people.

With all our technological advances in the last couple of decades, the improvements in lifestyle, and ease of life, the one thing that got affected the most was “time.”

Obviously, I don’t mean this in its literal sense. But think about it for a moment, and you will realize that every person and everything in your life is competing for your time — basically, your attention.

An average person has sixteen waking hours available daily. As per research, an average office worker is only productive for 2 hours and 33 minutes in a day, but we spend about eight hours “working.” Then, after office, we have social media with its doom-scrolling, family time, gym, news, Netflix, and so many other entertainment options.

Even with all these options to choose from to spend our day, most of us are not satisfied with where we are in life and how there is a constant battle with time. They are always busy but are not going anywhere.

The Urgency Delimma

So, what’s at the heart of our dilemma? It’s how we define what’s truly urgent.

In our quest for productivity, we often find ourselves procrastinating. Our minds play tricks on us, convincing us that…

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Cents & Sense
Cents & Sense
Muhammad Armaghan Tanveer
Muhammad Armaghan Tanveer

Written by Muhammad Armaghan Tanveer

I am a CPA by profession & a romantic by heart - basically I can talk about your love life & emotions while doing your taxes or reconciling your bank accounts.

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