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# 30 min quick read ECPA Platinum Award winner 31 pages of timeless wisdom Tyranny of the Urgent

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## Summary

> ⏳ Prioritize like a pro—because your 24 hours deserve more than just urgency!

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## Key Features

- • **Faith-Driven Focus:** Blend spiritual wisdom with actionable time management to escape the tyranny of the urgent.
- • **Quick Yet Profound:** Absorb life-changing principles in just 30 minutes—perfect for busy professionals.
- • **Award-Winning Guidance:** Benefit from an ECPA Platinum Book Award winner recognized for excellence in Christian literature.
- • **Master Your Time, Master Your Life:** Discover practical, faith-based strategies to prioritize what truly matters.
- • **Proven Impact with Over 1 Million Copies Sold:** Join a global community transformed by Hummel’s timeless insights.

## Overview

Tyranny of the Urgent is a concise, revised classic booklet by Charles E. Hummel offering faith-based, practical time management principles. With over one million copies sold and an ECPA Platinum Book Award, it empowers readers to distinguish urgent tasks from truly important ones, helping busy professionals reclaim their time and focus on meaningful priorities in just 31 pages.

## Description

Now thoroughly revised and expanded, this classic booklet by Charles E. Hummel offers ideas and illustrations for effective time management. With over one million copies in print, this classic booklet from Charles E. Hummel has transformed the minds and hearts of generations of Christians. Its simplicity and depth is a foundational resource for all who have felt overwhelmed by the responsibilities of each day, week, month and year. Now thoroughly revised and expanded, Hummel's booklet offers ideas and illustrations for effective time management that will help even the busiest people find time for what's important.

Review: “The Winds of Other People’s Demands!” - Charles E. Hummel wrote, “Have you ever wished for a thirty-hour day?” Hummel answers his own question: “But wouldn’t we soon be just as frustrated as we are now with our twenty-four-hour allotment?” (How about a 13-month year?) By page 4, the author is almost poetic: “The winds of other people’s demands and our own inner compulsions, have driven us onto a reef of frustration.” Time is not the problem, Hummel preaches, the problem is priorities. “We live in constant tension between the urgent and the important.” Hummel, who served as executive director of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA and president of Barrington College, died in 2004 at age 81. His popular pamphlet packs a punch. He quotes Jesus’ prayer in John 17, at the conclusion of his 33-year ministry: “I have brought you glory on earth by completing the work you gave me to do.” The author pokes us: are we crowding our schedules with “priorities” not assigned to us by our Father? Yikes! He documents how Jesus often left, or postponed, pressing priorities to focus on his Father’s work. What a life-giving reminder! Hummel points us to Mark 1:35 and asks, “What was the secret of Jesus’ ministry?” The author blends theology with practicality and mentions a student who was proud of his “stewardship of time” and rejected Hummel’s counsel to begin tracking his time. But a month later, this engineering major relented and upon conducting his own time inventory, found an extra six hours per week that could be better utilized! He wrote Hummel to thank him. More Insights: • On budgeting your time—there’s no need to change everything overnight. “Our Lord is a gracious teacher who helps us to learn one lesson at a time.” • “I have come to realize that I am the indispensable person only until the moment I say no.” • Schedule one hour per week for a spiritual inventory assessment. “Ironically, the busier we get, the more we need these periods—and the less we seem able to schedule them. We become like the fanatic, who unsure of his direction, doubles his speed.” “Over the years, I have found that one of the greatest struggles in the Christian life is the effort to make adequate time for: • daily waiting on God, • weekly inventory, • and monthly planning. Yet this is the path to escaping the tyranny of the urgent.” Hummel was the author of numerous books, including two full-length books on the “tyranny of the urgent” theme: • “Priorities: Tyranny of the Urgent (Christian Basics Bible Studies: Six Studies for Individuals or Groups)," by Charles E. Hummel. • "Freedom from Tyranny of the Urgent," by Charles E. Hummel. (Note: Winner of the 2004 ECPA Platinum Book Award). So…can we live on just 24 hours each day? Yes!
Review: A classic "must read" - This is a highly recommended booklet that many Christian organizations require, or at least suggest, for their students, ministers or missionaries. It is short (31 booklet pages that can be read in about 30 minutes or less) and easy to read with simple, practical steps for how to prioritize your life activities so that you can have peace knowing that you are doing the important things that are in keeping with your goals, rather than being tyrannized by "urgent," but less important, things. The booklet is addressed to Christians but a non-Christian can apply the principles. I recommend this little book to anyone who considers him/herself to be a servant of God. If you are too busy serving to read this little pamphlet, you might be too busy. This booklet might NOT be helpful to you if: --You already mangage time well AND you feel that you are on track with goals and priorities (but it could be a could reminder or refresher) --You are looking for examples or detailed how-to steps (this book would be a starting point if you haven't started) --You don't want to read anything with God in it.

## Features

- Used Book in Good Condition

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #30,817 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #23 in Christian Church Administration (Books) #49 in Christian Business & Professional Growth #74 in Evangelism |
| Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 1,029 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “The Winds of Other People’s Demands!”
*by J***N on June 5, 2025*

Charles E. Hummel wrote, “Have you ever wished for a thirty-hour day?” Hummel answers his own question: “But wouldn’t we soon be just as frustrated as we are now with our twenty-four-hour allotment?” (How about a 13-month year?) By page 4, the author is almost poetic: “The winds of other people’s demands and our own inner compulsions, have driven us onto a reef of frustration.” Time is not the problem, Hummel preaches, the problem is priorities. “We live in constant tension between the urgent and the important.” Hummel, who served as executive director of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA and president of Barrington College, died in 2004 at age 81. His popular pamphlet packs a punch. He quotes Jesus’ prayer in John 17, at the conclusion of his 33-year ministry: “I have brought you glory on earth by completing the work you gave me to do.” The author pokes us: are we crowding our schedules with “priorities” not assigned to us by our Father? Yikes! He documents how Jesus often left, or postponed, pressing priorities to focus on his Father’s work. What a life-giving reminder! Hummel points us to Mark 1:35 and asks, “What was the secret of Jesus’ ministry?” The author blends theology with practicality and mentions a student who was proud of his “stewardship of time” and rejected Hummel’s counsel to begin tracking his time. But a month later, this engineering major relented and upon conducting his own time inventory, found an extra six hours per week that could be better utilized! He wrote Hummel to thank him. More Insights: • On budgeting your time—there’s no need to change everything overnight. “Our Lord is a gracious teacher who helps us to learn one lesson at a time.” • “I have come to realize that I am the indispensable person only until the moment I say no.” • Schedule one hour per week for a spiritual inventory assessment. “Ironically, the busier we get, the more we need these periods—and the less we seem able to schedule them. We become like the fanatic, who unsure of his direction, doubles his speed.” “Over the years, I have found that one of the greatest struggles in the Christian life is the effort to make adequate time for: • daily waiting on God, • weekly inventory, • and monthly planning. Yet this is the path to escaping the tyranny of the urgent.” Hummel was the author of numerous books, including two full-length books on the “tyranny of the urgent” theme: • “Priorities: Tyranny of the Urgent (Christian Basics Bible Studies: Six Studies for Individuals or Groups)," by Charles E. Hummel. • "Freedom from Tyranny of the Urgent," by Charles E. Hummel. (Note: Winner of the 2004 ECPA Platinum Book Award). So…can we live on just 24 hours each day? Yes!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A classic "must read"
*by F***G on July 30, 2014*

This is a highly recommended booklet that many Christian organizations require, or at least suggest, for their students, ministers or missionaries. It is short (31 booklet pages that can be read in about 30 minutes or less) and easy to read with simple, practical steps for how to prioritize your life activities so that you can have peace knowing that you are doing the important things that are in keeping with your goals, rather than being tyrannized by "urgent," but less important, things. The booklet is addressed to Christians but a non-Christian can apply the principles. I recommend this little book to anyone who considers him/herself to be a servant of God. If you are too busy serving to read this little pamphlet, you might be too busy. This booklet might NOT be helpful to you if: --You already mangage time well AND you feel that you are on track with goals and priorities (but it could be a could reminder or refresher) --You are looking for examples or detailed how-to steps (this book would be a starting point if you haven't started) --You don't want to read anything with God in it.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Classic
*by V***R on January 24, 2017*

This is a classic that every Christian should read. It distinguishes between what is urgent on the one hand and what is important on the other hand. This is an essential distinction that every Christian (probably every person) should learn. Hummel then proposes a way to make the important drive the urgent rather than the other way around. This plan uses a daily time with God, a weekly evaluation, and monthly planning. The examples are somewhat dated; he considers a phone on a wall to be obtrusive without imagining mobile phones with texting and social media. Also, his picture of Jesus tends toward that of a really good human teacher. Still, the fundamental point is worth this read of less than 30 minutes.

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