#24: Greg McKeown—Experiencing Burnout? How to Reprioritize!
The StoryBrand Podcast
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4.7 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2021
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
We tend to equate success with working hard and think anything worth getting is worth working for, no matter the cost. But once we reach the level success we've dreamt about, we're too burnt out to even enjoy it. Does this resonate with you? If so, pause and listen to today's conversation with Greg McKeown, author of the new book Effortless. Greg will teach you how to prioritize and reframe your priorities to make things easy allowing you to finally focus on what matters most. If you are constantly living inside your last edge of energy, this conversation is the reprogramming you need so can finally stop wearing your burn out as a badge of honor.
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| 0:00.0 | We've been taught that anything worth getting is worth working really hard for and powering |
| 0:07.0 | through and the reality is that may actually not be the case. |
| 0:10.8 | You've either got essential hard and burnout or you've got easy, trivial and lazy. |
| 0:17.0 | Neither of those are good options. |
| 0:18.6 | You don't have to choose between those two options. |
| 0:20.7 | There is a third path, a way to do what is most essential, a way that is more effortless. |
| 0:31.0 | Don and Kuhla. |
| 0:33.0 | I would have done it. |
| 0:37.0 | I was waiting for the person. |
| 0:39.0 | I knew I knew that was going to happen. |
| 0:45.0 | Hey guys, today I get to do the interview that we are going to hear. |
| 0:51.0 | It's going to be the best interview that you've ever heard. |
| 0:55.0 | You've been? |
| 0:56.0 | Yep. |
| 0:57.0 | I actually had the interview though. |
| 0:58.0 | I did. |
| 0:59.0 | And I actually had an amazing time talking to Greg McEllis when I heard. |
| 1:03.0 | When I told you what it was about. |
| 1:04.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:05.0 | When I heard it even it was Greg. |
| 1:06.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:07.0 | He is fantastic. |
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