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Time management, Coaching, Execution Kevin Ertell Time management, Coaching, Execution Kevin Ertell

The Tyranny of the Urgent

“Time keeps on slippin’, slippin’, slippin’ into the future…”

Some days it feels like Steve Miller was singing about my calendar.

I’ll start the morning with clarity about what really matters. Then the little things show up—emails that “just need a quick reply,” meetings that expand beyond their purpose, texts that break my focus. One after another, they eat away at my day.

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