Today, Seth Godin hit a home run with his post Managing Urgencies. He wrote:

Add up enough urgencies and you don’t get a fire, you get a career. A career putting out fires never leads to the goal you had in mind all along. ~ Seth Godin

I do not want to spend my life putting out fires. It’s time to build a fire that will do something. When I stop long enough to lift my head up and look ahead, I see a church full of people on fire.

If you work in an urgent-only culture, the only solution is to make the right things urgent. ~ Seth Godin

Today I will, once again, turn my focus away from little, distracting fires so that I can make the right things urgent.