Side Hustle Show 96 essentialism and finding your one thing getting started on the path to less but better.

Welcome to the Side Hustle Show, where aspiring part-time entrepreneurs learn how to turn their side hustle dreams

into reality.

Because your 9-to-5 may make you a living, but your 5-9 makes you alive.

And now your host, Nick Loper.

What's happening?

Nick Loper here, welcome to the Side Hustle Show. This is episode 96.

It's called Essentialism in Finding Your One Thing. The title comes from a couple books I just got done reading by those same

titles, Essentialism by Greg McKeon and The One Thing by Gary Keller.

Now this is a solo episode, it's just me on the mic.

There's no real agenda.

I'm just going to go through my notes on the book, my kind of thoughts and

takeaways on these things I read most of these

books on the plane to and from Hawaii which is a surprisingly good productivity hack flying is for me because there's no there's

no Wi-Fi or at least I don't pay for the Wi-Fi and you know you just you're trapped in this tiny little seat and there's nothing to do.

So I knocked out a ton of a ton of reading, a ton of writing and among the reading were these two books. So I want to kind of kick it off with a quote. This is a quote that's

attributed to Leonardo da Vinci and he says, simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

And that's one of my all-time favorite quotes

because it's, you know, it's so true it's not always about

adding more you think about the the iPhone right it's a very complex machine has one

button on the whole on the on the front of the device. I think it's a very

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