Dear essentialists, thank you really for listening to the

essentialism podcast. It's such a pleasure to be able to be part of building this

amazing community of people. I have received so many emails from this essentialist

community of people who are making progress in their journey as a result of

essentialism the book, now the podcast and of course the newsletter and

the newsletter and this week I received one that impacted me personally from Joe.

I'm just gonna read the whole thing in full.

She writes, hi Greg, I'm Joe and I'm an

essentialist. I read your book on holiday about four years ago and I confess I cried.

The bit about your conflict during the birth of your child really resonated with me as a type A full-time working mom of two girls.

I was in a blur of busyness since I was young, which was accelerated when I became a mom. I'm ashamed to say

that at some stages I wished I would get ill so at least it would give me a break from the

relentless trust of life. I had some mental issues

at the time, but of course I did. I took to reading your book every six months as I believe essentialism is a muscle that needs working out.

It easily gets flabby if you're not careful.

From that day onward I always have at the top of my to-do list, what is the most important thing I need to do today?

And I try to do that first.

For the first two years it tended to be a work thing that made the list but as I made some big changes to

protect the asset some personal self ones appeared on there too.

I guess the most significant aspect of being an essentialist happened two and a half years ago.

My mom hadn't been very well for a few months.

Nothing serious, just lots of infections which she had seen her GP about. She had one trip to hospital as one particular

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