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The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks

1236 | Greg McKeown: “If You Don’t Prioritize Your Life Someone Else Will.”

The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks

Sean Croxton

Entrepreneurship, Mental Health, Self-improvement, Business, Health & Fitness, Education

4.83.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode, Greg McKeown talks about the paradox of success where ironically, success itself can become a catalyst for failure. He points out that since success comes with new options and opportunities, you’re bound to find yourself stretched too thin, be it at work or at home. Greg coins this as the undisciplined pursuit of more when the non-essential takes the place of what’s truly essential. 

You have to become successful at success. Remember, a trade-off exists everywhere. So you can either be pulled in a million directions or be focused on the few things that really matter. He highlights the powerful idea of searching for something significant and designing your life around that essential few or those that truly matter. 

Source: Essentialism | Greg McKeown

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0:00.0

Yo, today's QOD is if you don't prioritize your life someone else well here we go

0:30.0

Welcome back to the QOD today show I'm your host shine Crox and a shine Crox and

0:36.9

calm we've got Greg McEwen author of essentialism on the show today and this

0:42.2

is a perfect clip for anybody who feels like you're being stretched too thin if

0:48.6

you're feeling overwhelmed there's also this I don't know if I can call it a

0:54.8

secret but there's this unexpected thing about becoming more successful that

0:59.7

he talks about here you know earlier this week we're talking about developing

1:04.3

your skills and how to develop your skills you got to like sit down by

1:07.4

yourself and develop them right there's some alone time that needs to happen

1:10.8

there but what's really interesting is as you get better and better and you

1:15.3

become excellent at your craft you attract more and more people to you more

1:21.4

invitations more calls more text more emails more DMs more meetings more

1:30.7

lunches and it can tell you and I can tell you this from personal experience it

1:34.6

can get out of control if you let it and you're spending so much time doing all

1:39.6

these other things right saying yes to everything that your life is so out of

1:44.2

balance and again you're overwhelmed and you don't enjoy being successful this

1:49.8

is something that I got control of over the last year you know with email if

1:56.4

you want to interview me for a podcast like two times on my schedule Friday 9 a.m.

2:01.8

or 10 a.m. and that's it can't do it that day or in that time then I can't do

2:05.2

it right so you have to be able to create some boundaries for yourself and you

2:09.1

have to figure out what is essential and what is not and when you do that you

2:15.5

also have the courage you also have to have the courage I should say to say no

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