Welcome back, everybody. I am your host, Greg McEwan. I'm the author of Essentialism and

also of Effortless, and I am here with you on this journey to learn how we can design

and then live a life that really matters. Many of us have been told that if we're good

at making decisions, we're good at everything, but this I think is wrong. What we know now

is that making the right one-time decisions is the real game changer. In this part four

of this series on 10X leverage, that is how to be able to achieve residual results in

your life. You will learn why and then how to be able to make one-time decisions that

can change your life. Let's get to it.

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When our children were toddlers, we lived next door to a family quite similar to our own. They

had two young children, just like us. We traveled in the same social circles and saw each other

every weekend. Even the floor plan of their house was literally the mirror image of ours. One day

the husband told me about his recent knee surgery. All had appeared to go well during the procedure,

but his recovery was not progressing as expected. Instead of subsiding, the pain had increased as

the weeks went by. Eventually, they got to the bottom of the matter. The surgical team had

inadvertently left a small surgical instrument inside his knee. One would never expect this kind of

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