We never went very far with it and it was called something different at that time, but it was years before.Īnd, and it was to, to a publisher that had the audience primarily of women age, let’s say 35 to 55 who are dealing with all of the unbelievable challenges and responsibilities of that stage in life. The first version of Essentialism was a book written for a different publisher. Greg: Well, I want to answer that question, but first I want to connect with something I think that’s really important, which is that I sort of in secret wrote both Essentialism and the new book Effortless for the people who listen to your podcast.Īnd yes, because, because the heart of both of them.This is really literally true. So how did you come to knowing that what was next was to better help people work through all of what was important to them? And it’s so clarifying, but even you found as the head of that movement that really took the world by storm, even you struggled with living that out because it turns out there are a lot of really important essential things. Essentialism is a book I read every year and it helps people understand what matters most. book is often as described as “life changing.” And it was for me. Monica: Greg McKeown, thank you so much for joining us on About Progress. Songs Credit: Pleasant Pictures Music Club Lend your voice and experience + be featured on the show HERE Join the Strive Hive, my monthly membership group Leave a rating and review for the podcast! If you like the show please share it, subscribe, and leave a review!! You can listen the episode below, or on iTunes, Soundcloud, Stitcher, Pocketcasts, Googleplay, or search for “About Progress” wherever you get your podcasts. Sign up for the Go Getter Newsletter to get Progress Pointers in your inbox every Tuesday. Reclaim your creative power and rediscover who you actually are! If you’re ready to come back home to yourself, to be able to say that you know who you are and what matters to you, take my foundation course, “ Finding Me.” It’s OK that you’ve lost parts of yourself along the way but as you learn to anchor back into who you are and align your life to what matters to you, you’ll find that you have more strength, more fulfilment, and more creativity to bring to your important roles and responsibilities. If you want to avoid burnout AND have the ability to do what matters most without the hustle, you won’t want to miss this episode!

Plus, you’ll hear practical steps you can take to actually apply this in your life. You’ll leave with two questions you can ask when you feel burned out: “Is this essential?” And, “How can I make what is essential effortless?” In this episode, Greg talks about how you (as a REAL woman) can implement his ideas. He discovered that although essentialism is THE start to living a more balanced life, there’s another step that follows: making what’s essential effortless. (Ex: simplifying your priorities AND your to-do list.)īut, what happens when even the most essential tasks of life STILL overwhelm you? Essentialism is the practice of paring down your life to only the essential.

Greg McKeown has studied and written extensively on this subject. How can we avoid this burnout when we have so much to do? But, in reality, we can’t have–or do–it all, all the time.

Tools to make it easier to do what matters most.ĭoes your to-do list make you feel burned out? Part of the problem comes from our hustle culture that glorifies people who “have it all” by doing it all.

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