Welcome to the show I'm Greg McEwan and I'm your host for the What's Essential Podcast.

There are lots of shows on how to improve, on how to become successful,

but there is only one on what to do once you are. This is essential because success can be

a catalyst for failure, especially if it leads to the undisciplined pursuit of more,

and this show is about how to become successful at success.

It's for high performers who are on the edge of exhaustion. It's for people who struggle

with the curse of capability. It's important because what got you here is not what's going to

get you there. So if you're a driven, hard-working, productive person who is running out of space but

still wants to make a higher contribution, the What's Essential Podcast is designed, especially

for you. I'm delighted to have my friend and best-selling author Michael Hyatt here with us

today. He's the author of many books, including a new book that I think you'll find highly relevant

called How to Win at Work and succeed at life. Listen to this episode if you want to.

Well, win at work and succeed at life and you're going to find this to be an enjoyable conversation

with some very practical tips for how to do the above. So let's get to it.

Okay, I'm going to give you some backstory here. I just had a conversation with a friend of mine

in which I posed a challenge to him of a real challenge of someone I have just spoken to

at a live event and his response to this situation just like actually sort of shocked me.

So I'm not going to share what he said or anything, but I'm going to give you the same challenge because

here we are in the midst of the pandemic still. There is an unequal effect of the pandemic on people,

depending on their life situation. I think most people, the data I've read recently is 85% of people

feel they've had a reduction in well-being since the pandemic began. Of course, that can be a

variety of different forms of well-being. Some people, of course, the 50% there that are like, no,

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