Welcome to the show. I'm Greg McEwen 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 show on what to do once you are.

This is essential because success itself can be a catalyst for failure.

This special, if it leads to the undisciplined pursuit of more, 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.

So, let's get to it.

Hi, everybody. I'm so happy that we're all here together on a Friday. I'm so happy we made it to Friday.

I'm looking forward to the weekend and I'm really glad to be speaking with somebody today that I admire and somebody today

that I hope will help us get through the weekend and through these last couple of weeks of this year and help us prepare for the new year

by talking about what's really essential in our lives.

And that's why I really wanted to have Greg McEwan join us today. He wrote the best-selling book, Essentialism,

The Disciplined Pursuit of Less, The Disciplined Pursuit of Less.

And I've been a big fan of his, an admirer of his, and this conversation we're going to put it up in the Sunday paper

because I think so much of what he says. And you can follow him on Instagram, obviously you can read his book.

He has a podcast and he talks about the importance of boundaries, about discernment,

about asking yourself certain questions that help you decide what actually is essential in your life,

what's keeping you from actually focusing on your priorities. And maybe there's many of us who do too many things

and don't actually focus on the one or two things that we should be focusing on.

And that actually ends up leaving us feeling depleted, angry at ourselves, or feeling like we're not really doing anything.

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