All right. Oh, my gosh, Greg McHughan. This is so exciting. I think you're the first person other than my immediate family members who's been on the podcast three times now. This is so exciting for me.

I'm in rarefied air.

I feel privileged to be able to be a part of your inner circle of podcast guests.

Well, that's very kind, but really this is such a treat and a delight for me.

So you're here because of this thing

that showed up on my doorstep today from Amazon, the Essentialism Planner. So anyone who is a super

fan of Essentialism, let's just get right to this. Like, why do you need this if you already

understand Essentialism?

Essentialism, the book, is mindset and skill set.

This is tool set.

And I wasn't convinced that it was needed.

10 years ago, I was approached by the publisher about doing an essentialism

workbook or journal and so on. And I entered the contract and as I started working on it, I thought,

I don't think I have anything that's unique enough. And I think if people read essentialism

and they get the mindset and there's some skills in there too, I think that's sufficient. So I got myself out of the contract. And then as the years have gone by, I've iterated

in my own life, my own need. And of course, I've worked with now hundreds of other organizations and

executives and people that are trying to implement these ideas. And bit by bit, I got to the point where I found something that I thought really was

genuinely so useful in my own life and in the people that I was working with and coaching,

that I signed up for it when they came the second time.

And it has been a little labor of love.

None of that will necessarily be very

obvious the journey behind it when people use it because it's simple and it's clear and clean.

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