47. What's Essential: Jon Acuff on The Surprising Solution to Overthinking

The Greg McKeown Podcast

Greg McKeown

Self-improvement, Business, Education

4.9 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Leadership speaker Jon Acuff (author, Soundtracks) shares his strategy on how to turn overthinking into productivity. Jon and Greg discuss the importance of perspective, pushing through fear, and the power of action to propel forward. They explore how to build positive thoughts and repetition into your physical environment, schedule, and relationships to make accomplishing goals more effortless. PRE-ORDER EFFORTLESS now and get the 21-Day Challenge AND Chapter 1 of Effortless FREE!: https://gregmckeown.com/books/effortless/ Share the What’s Essential podcast with your co-workers & friends and earn rewards: https://refer.fm/essential 1 Referral - Access the exclusive "Tim Ferris" episode 3 Referrals - 21-day Challenge PDF 15 Referrals - $10 digital gift card you can use at stores like Real Simple, Container Store, etc. What's Essential Podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/essentialismpod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/essentialismpodcast Greg McKeown Twitter: https://twitter.com/gregorymckeown LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregmckeown Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gregorymckeown/ Scratch Audiohouse Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wheelhousegroup/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/wheelhouse-group-llc/ Credits: Hosted by Greg McKeown Produced by Greg McKeown and Scratch Audiohouse Executive Produced by Greg McKeown, Avi Gandhi, Brent Montgomery, and Ed Simpson Co-Produced by Paul Dizon

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0:00.0	Welcome to the show I'm Greg McEwan and I'm your host on the What's Essential Podcast.
0:10.1	Inessentialism I wrote that the antidote to a state of constant busyness and distraction
0:15.6	was to identify the activities that are truly essential and eliminate everything else.
0:21.5	In hindsight I realized that I under-emphasized a critical piece of the equation that perhaps
0:27.6	the biggest thing that actually keeps us from doing what's essential is the false idea
0:33.0	that everything that's important has to take tremendous effort.
0:38.6	But what if instead we consider the possibility that the reason things feel so hard is simply
0:45.7	that we haven't found an easier way to do it yet?
0:49.3	For the month of April the What's Essential Podcast discusses these principles which
0:53.7	will be fully explored in my new book Effortless where you'll learn how to transform tedious
0:59.9	tasks into joyful rituals to solve problems completely before they even arise to simplify
1:07.2	your processes and much more.
1:10.0	I wrote Effortless for you to help you make the most essential activities the easiest
1:16.8	ones and I can't wait to share all that I've learned with you.
1:21.4	So after this episode, pre-order your copy of Effortless at the link in the description.
1:26.9	Let's begin.
1:32.6	John A.Cuff, a New York Times bestselling author, the author of a new book Soundtracks which
1:41.8	I love, the surprising solution to overthinking.
1:45.4	I think it's your best book so far.
1:48.5	Oh thank you.
1:49.3	I think this is a funny way to say it but it's like packaged really well.
1:55.7	It's a full clear problem, great solution and just an overall book that I feel like has
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