Urgency Addiction Assessment
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The aim of this questionnaire is to give you a sense of your current urgency mindset.
You have spent the past 30 days establishing a paradigm of meaningful productivity as consistently spending time on things that matter.
But if you are consistently spending time on the things that are urgent, you may never get to the things that are essential.
In your pursuit of doing work that matters and keeping a healthy balance between your work and personal life, it can be helpful to learn how prone you are to giving in to the urgent without fighting for the important.
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The higher your score, the greater your urgency mindset. Here’s a scale to help measure your score:
15 – 39 points: Low urgency mindset — urgency likely does not control your life.
40 – 59 points: Strong urgency mindset — there’s a good chance urgency is your fundamental operational paradigm.
60 – 75 points: Urgency addiction.
To quote from First Things First: “Some of us get so used to the adrenaline rush of handling crises that we become dependent on it for a sense of excitement and energy. How does urgency feel? Stressful? Pressured? Tense? Exhausting? Sure. But let’s be honest. It’s also sometimes exhilarating. We feel useful. We feel successful. We feel validated. And we get good at it. Whenever there’s trouble, we ride into town, pull out our six shooter, do the varmint in, blow the smoke off the gun barrel, and ride into the sunset like a hero. It brings instant results and instant gratification.
“We get a temporary high from solving urgent and important crises. Then when the importance isn’t there, the urgency fix is so powerful we are drawn to do anything urgent, just to stay in motion. People expect us to be busy, overworked. It’s become a status symbol in our society — if we’re busy, we’re important; if we’re not busy, we’re almost embarrassed to admit it. Busyness is where we get our security. It’s validating, popular, and pleasing. It’s also a good excuse for not dealing with the first things in our lives.”
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Do you seem to do your best work when you’re under pressure?
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How often do you have to deal with issues that should have been taken care of by others?
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How often is your day spent reacting and moving from one unexpected or pressing event to the next?
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How often do you wait until due dates to get important things done because you are overwhelmed with many competing and pressing events?
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How often do you feel frustrated at the end of the day because your most important tasks are still not done?
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Do you keep thinking that someday you’ll be able to do what you really want to do?
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How often do you feel frustrated by the slowness of people and things around you?
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Do you feel guilty when you take time off work?
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Do you assume people will naturally understand if you have to disappoint them or let things go in order to handle a crisis?
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How often do you blame the rush and press of external things for your failure to spend time alone to think, plan, and reflect?
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How often do you find yourself rushing between places and events?
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How often do you find yourself giving up quality time with important people so that you can finish a project or respond to a crisis?
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How often do you eat lunch or other meals while you work?
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Do you feel anxious when you’re out of touch with your work?
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When you go on vacation or take time off from work, does it take you several days to stop feeling anxious about the work you have to do?
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