420: How Success Can Come From Simplifying the Most Important Activities in Your Life | Greg McKeown
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
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🗓️ 20 July 2021
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Watch the full video interview on YouTube here: https://bit.ly/gregmckeown420
Greg McKeown (IG: @gregorymckeown) is a speaker, a bestselling author, and the host of the popular podcast What’s Essential.
His New York Times bestselling book Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less has sold more than a million copies worldwide.
Today we’re discussing Greg’s latest book, Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most.
In this episode, we discuss:
- There’s always a more effortless way to go about life
- Essentialism is prioritization and Effortless is simplification
- Greg's daughter's health crisis was the inspiration behind writing Effortless
- If you get into the wrong state everything will be harder
- After complaining say something you are thankful for
- The biggest problem with being in a state of burnout
- How can this be effortless?
- Not everything needs the extra mile
- Am I getting as much return for the effort?
- Done for the day list
- Create a high trust agreement with your manager
- The practice of investing in the long tail
- Ask yourself... how can I make this enjoyable?
- The building blocks of joy
- What's something that is essential to you that you wish was a little more effortless?
- Creating workplace boundaries are important for family culture
- The difference between effortless state and effortless action
- The principle of effortless results
- Linear results vs. residual results
- Podcasting is a whole new genre
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| 0:00.0 | coming up on the Ultimate Health podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | So you for sure should stop if you're at negative returns. |
| 0:05.8 | Just literally stop, close the computer, walk away, |
| 0:09.2 | go on a walk, do anything else |
| 0:11.6 | because you're making it worse. |
| 0:13.4 | So I think that's one important test |
| 0:16.8 | that you say, and it takes himself awareness, |
| 0:19.8 | but to have a sense of like, am I getting as much return |
| 0:22.7 | for each ounce of effort? |
| 0:24.5 | And certainly am I making it worse now |
| 0:26.7 | because I'm pushing harder? |
| 0:28.3 | That can be true in a book. |
| 0:30.4 | It can be true in an entrepreneurial venture. |
| 0:32.6 | It can be true in a relationship, |
| 0:34.2 | a conversation that you're in. |
| 0:35.6 | It's going worse and worse. |
| 0:37.2 | Just, hey, let's just take a time out. |
| 0:39.0 | We'll come back to it. |
| 0:40.2 | Let's come back to it. |
| 0:41.0 | We're a little calmer. |
| 0:41.8 | We're a little more rested. |
| 0:43.3 | Let's not try and power through here |
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