Bill McDonald, husband, father, martial arts instructor, gym owner, entrepreneur, and the owner and host of The Bearded Beast Show discusses the concept of "selective urgency" and the ways in which turning urgency and intensity on and off can directly impact your life in unfortunate ways and prevent you from winning.

Episode Highlights: 

• Bill talks about scenarios of people blind-siding others suddenly with massive problems. 
• Why do people waste time then act surprised when they get negative results? 
• What is the concept of selective urgency?  
• Why don't people want to address their issues?   
• Time will fly right by you so don't keep putting off your priorities. 
• Learn who to be urgent at all times and execute perfectly at all times. 
• Urgency can become a habit with practice.  
• Pay attention to the people and their lives that procrastinate and waste time. 

3 Key Points:

1. Don't take anything you value for granted. 
2. Don't wait until things go bad and it is too late to start taking opportunities seriously. 
3. Treat every day as if it were your last.  

Tweetable Quotes:

• "'We have people that are intense. We have people that have urgency. We have people who understand the need to win on every opportunity that is presented to them." – Bill McDonald
• "Most people wait until it is too late. Most people wait until the bank wants the house back. Until the relationship is burnt to the ground. Until the opportunity has passed them by." – Bill McDonald
• "Successful people make every opportunity important at all times. They make every person important. They make every detail important, and you know what, most people don't." – Bill McDonald

Resources Mentioned:

• The Bearded Beast Show 

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