Is This Where Procrastination Comes From?

Procrastination today creates urgency tomorrow.  And sometimes I like it.  In "First Things First", Covey (unbeknownst to him?) puts his finger on a principle right out of the Sermon on the Mount.  "When urgency is the dominant factor in our lives, importance isn't".  The Kingdom of God, wherever it may manifest itself, is the first thing.  'Important' doesn't do it justice.  Covey writes about the addiction to urgency that comes from allowing the urgent to crowd out the important or first things:

"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."

So if the kingdom of God is the daily important, first thing, then procrastination just may be my attempt to put the kingdom of God off till tomorrow.  (Of course, that's assuming my daily priorities are a relflection of me seeking the kingdom first, but that's another post.)  Then I get the rush of of accomplishing something urgent
tomorrow that should have been important today.  I reduce the kingdom to an unimportant, last minute task rather than the first thing that makes everything else in life make sense.  Procrastination is the drive to the dealer's house today.  Urgency is the drug tomorrow.