Dr. Alan Rozanski

All the phone calls.

If you have your phone on notifications and you don't silence it, you may be called to a lot of pings on that.

A lot of things you have to do in your job are things that you deem are not important, but they're urgent because your boss expects it or things like that.

Well, Covey, when he wrote this book, he said, quadrant two was the quadrant of greatness.

It was those things that are important in life, but not urgent.

They don't call economists.

We have to be mindful.

What I say as a physician is, unfortunately, much of what we have to do in terms of health is important, but not urgent.

Like, you know, getting out and exercising.

Or, you know...

working on making a better home environment in terms of food, in terms of let's prepare salads ahead of time and so forth.

There's nothing that goes on in terms of alarm bells in your body if you don't do resistance training.

But over the course of a lifetime, that will make a big difference in terms of whether you're somebody who's frail or has a lot of vigor when you're 80 years old.

Problem very often with health is that problem.

You have to be intentional about it because it's not urgent.

And it's also true for many of the other things we want to pursue in life in terms of, you know, meaningful goals, those life goals that we would, those would be goals we would regret that if we never did them, but they're not calling upon us now.

So we have to be intentional.

And the trick is,

The trick, the magical potion for dealing with that is to have minimal standards to actually take time out and think about your life and say, you know, let's look at the short term and the long term.

And I know the long term is never going to be urgent to me because it's a long term.