Welcome. I'm Greg McEwan, your host in the What's Essential Podcast, and also the author

of Essentialism and Effortless. Come with me on an exploration of self-discovery. On

this podcast, we decipher what really matters as we unravel the chaos and complexity of

day-to-day living in order to learn how to build an essential life. Ever since writing

Effortless and especially recently, I've been thinking about how important it is to build

systems that work for you not against you. Too much of my life and too much of my life

recently, I've been spending time making results happen by persevering. And so I was really

intrigued when Kerry Newhoff wrote a new book and sent it to me at your best. How to get

time, energy, and priorities working in your favour. And it's those last three words in your

favour, stacking the deck in your favour instead of them being stacked against you. Kerry is a

friend of mine, he's an influential podcaster in his own right, a thought leader, he mentors

people all over the world. And so I've invited him in to mentor me and you, so let's get to

it. Kerry, welcome to the What's Essential Podcast. Right before we got on air, I asked you

what you've been up to the last couple of weeks. You said you were preparing for a month

off from the business. But then you said something like maybe you have the words for it. You

said no cheating. Yes, no cheating. Just really unplugged. And you said fortunately the

business is getting to the point or is that the point that it can do that? And I think that's

worth getting into because it seems to me that a lot of people design or end up with lives and

then businesses that are so dependent on them. They they have to be or feel they have to be

linked to their phones every second of every day, doing email always on that things won't work

without them. And in this way I think make life much harder than it needs to be for themselves.

And so can you just talk to me about that? You know, what have you learned about building

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