From my experience, being desparate pushes you extra, true. But you hit a wall, since you've just spent a lot of your time chasing urgent and important instead

From my experience, being desparate pushes you extra, true. But you hit a wall, since you've just spent a lot of your time chasing urgent and important instead of not urgent and important, which is preferable long-term strategy. I could make a house building analogy here probably.