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431: How to Make Trade-offs in Your Life (Before Others Do it For You) with Greg McKeown

BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast

BiggerPockets

Education, Investing, Business

4.8 • 16.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2021

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Your agent is calling you to show you houses, your boss is emailing you about some work to do, your partner wants to grab dinner, and you want to take a nap. How do you prioritize things in your life when everything seems so important? The key is essentialism. Joining the podcast today is Greg McKeown, Author of Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less. Greg relates to the struggle of many entrepreneurs and investors: too many options, not enough time. Instead of telling you to wake up at 5 AM, take a cold shower and work until 10PM, he presents a far more effective (and simple) approach. What Greg suggests: pick the things you care most about, do them, and don’t worry about the rest. But how do you pick when everything seems essential? The answer: almost everything else besides your core cares/needs aren’t essential. If you begin to treat the non-essential as essential, you stretch yourself too thin, not allowing you the time to accomplish what truly is...essential. In the modern age, many of us feel like we don’t have time to accomplish everything we want. When we get laser-focused and put the principles of essentialism in our daily lives, we can accomplish more than ever. In This Episode We Cover: What is essentialism? How to designate the non-essential from the essential tasks Why having too many good options puts us in a dangerous position How to find out which tasks deserve delegation or deletion Developing the courage to say “no” Finding an accountability partner so you’re locked in for success Why Brandon wants to spend less time on Tiktok And So Much More! Links from the Show BiggerPockets Podcast BiggerPockets book store Essentialism book Website StickK App. How to turn goals into a reality Click here to check the full show notes: https://www.biggerpockets.com/show431 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is the bigger pockets podcast show for 31 non-essentialism only has one real defect and it's a that's that it's a lie.

0:09.6

The idea that you can do everything for everyone at all times and that will lead to success.

0:16.6

Everything about it is not right.

0:19.1

Everything about that equation isn't valid.

0:22.1

You're listening to bigger pockets radio simplifying real estate for investors large and small.

0:27.8

If you're here looking to learn about real estate investing without all the hype you're in the right place.

0:34.0

Stay tuned and be sure to join the millions of others who have benefited from bigger pockets dot com your home for real estate investing online.

0:43.1

What's going on everyone? It's Brandon Turner host of the bigger pockets podcast here with a phenomenal show with my co-host Mr. David green David.

0:51.8

That was we just got finished recording and that was crazy and kind of humiliating but kind of kind of amazing.

0:59.1

So it was humiliating for you was awesome to be the fly on the wall watching you be tortured by this guy.

1:03.8

If anybody wants to see Brandon's squirm you got to watch this one on you tortured.

1:08.0

I was just glad when I pulled my phone up it wasn't as bad as I thought it's all I'm going to say is I felt a little vindicated right then.

1:14.4

So and then kind of a cool surprise came at the very very end of the show that was very fitting.

1:19.3

So hang tight for the whole show you guys are going to love it.

1:22.3

But before we get to that let's talk about today's quick tip David I'm going to give you today's quick tip ability.

1:29.3

What you got?

1:30.3

Well, this is very similar to one that we just talked about recently when we gave our take time to think challenge.

1:35.8

So when we interviewed near he spoke about what you don't want to try the whole thing.

1:40.7

You don't want to try it like y'all.

1:43.1

Hey y'all something like that right something like that.

1:45.8

Yeah, what was the trackable what?

1:49.8

I've gotten rave reviews on that podcast everybody really really liked it.

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