Welcome back everybody. I'm your host Greg McEwen and I am here with you on this journey to learn how to be able to design a life that really matters. This is part four in a multi-part series about the relentless elimination of noise. Have you noticed that the noise is increasing everywhere?

Have you felt that ridiculous increase of volume, the number of voices telling you what to do, what to worry about, what your

life should be, could be, has to be, shouldn't have been.

Have you noticed that the more you listen to all of those incessant loud

persuasive voices out there, the less able you are to listen to the voices of the people closest to you, the people who in

fact matter most to you, including listening to the voice within you. By the end of this episode,

you will have a concrete rule and tools

for how to increase the volume of that voice within

and decrease or eliminate those voices all that noise that is without.

Let's get to do. For the last few years I've been building a whole system to help you to be able to actually live a life that really matters.

Of course I wrote essentialism for that purpose

and effortless to be able to make it easier to do the things that matter most. But also the

one minute Wednesday newsletter plus this podcast arriving Tuesdays and Thursdays

as well as the Essentialism Academy that you can go and sign up for at essentialism.com.

All of these are an invitation

from your future self, let's say,

to help you to design a life that is full of what's essential and has pushed out the

non-essential to its proper place. I would invite you to participate in all of the

above that seems relevant and helpful for you.

Some time ago I was totally trapped in the airport. I could not get out. No plane could fly out. We got into our plane in fact and spent an hour on the runway, but then disappointed, as we all were, the plane returned to the gate. People were getting irritated, people were getting

frustrated. Storm Ida was upon us. There was rain coming in everywhere. Rain right through the ceiling of the airport, making

massive puddles and unexpected places. I managed to book a room at a hotel that you could see from the airport. It was just there, just barely out of reach. A 10 minute walk or bus ride under normal circumstances. But these were not normal circumstances. The police

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