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

Inessentialism I wrote that the antidote to a state of constant busyness and distraction

was to identify the activities that are truly essential and eliminate everything else.

In hindsight I realized that I under-emphasized a critical piece of the equation that perhaps

the biggest thing that actually keeps us from doing what's essential is the false idea

that everything that's important has to take tremendous effort.

But what if instead we consider the possibility that the reason things feel so hard is simply

that we haven't found an easier way to do it yet?

For the month of April the What's Essential Podcast discusses these principles which will

be fully explored in my new book Effortless where you'll learn how to transform tedious

tasks into joyful rituals to solve problems completely before they even arise to simplify

your processes and much more.

I wrote Effortless for you to help you make the most essential activities the easiest

ones and I can't wait to share all that I've learned with you.

So after this episode, pre-order your copy of Effortless at the link in the description.

Let's begin.

So I'm a huge fan of American Dream University because I had a fairly rough transition

and nobody was there to help me through the transition the way that fills helping people

now.

And I think there's a great analogy between transitioning veterans and guys working

in entrepreneurship and I've found that through my transition as well.

So I joined the military via West Point and graduated in 2001 which meant I graduated

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