Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work.

Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money with your host, Pete McKitis.

Well, I think you're going to have so much fun listening to this next guest here,

Greg McEwen, and he is explaining the idea of essentialism, the disciplined pursuit of less but better.

And this conversation was so packed with the essentials

that I wish we could have gone on longer and longer

because there's just so much good stuff.

So you're gonna learn one, the meaning of essentialism and why to

eliminate non-essentials. Two, how to use extreme criteria to determine priority and three, the power

and importance of having some buffer time.

So if you want to check out the show notes, the transcript,

the things mentioned here,

you can find that over at awesome at your job.com slash ep 38.

Here's a bit about Greg, originally from London, England, Greg McEwen is the author of the New York

Times Best Seller Essentialism, The Disciplined Pursuit of Less, and the founder of

This, Inc. a company with a mission to inspire millions of people to design their essential mission in life.

Their clients include Adobe, Apple, Airbnb, Cisco, Google, Facebook, Pixar, Salesforce.com, Symantec, Twitter, VMware, and Yahoo.

Here's Greg.

Greg, thanks so much for being here on the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast.

It's great to be with you, Pete.

Oh boy, well I've really getting a kick out of perusing your website. your jump right in because I think we'll run out of time before we've got all the goods.

So that's a good problem to have.

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