Come with me on an exploration of self-discovery. On this podcast we

decipher what really matters as we unravel the chaos of day-to-day work to

learn how to build an essential life. Welcome back to the what's essential

podcast. I'm your host Greg McEwan and thank you really thank you for

inviting me into your life, into your day-to-day. Take a deep breath. I need that.

Maybe you're driving along listening to this conversation, maybe you're riding a bike or

taking a walk or maybe you're in a picturesque place or maybe you're just washing up.

But wherever you are thank you for allowing me to join you for what I hope will be a useful

relevant conversation. Last week I had an episode on the Genius of Routines and I had such a

response from you all. Many many people writing reviews many people sending emails follow-up

questions and it doesn't surprise me in a way because routines really are that powerful.

It's the way to make execution of the most important things as effortless as possible.

We talked about the genius of routine used by Michael Phelps and his coach Bob Bowman in that

extraordinary eight-gold Olympic record magical moment in Beijing. But the questions that came

in afterwards were to do with how to apply this at home to family, to relationships and that's

what we're going to spend time on today. So by the end of today's episode you're going to learn

specific ways things that you can apply right now to make your routine's work better

and to be able to therefore make execution of what's most important, easier going forward.

And to do that I have brought with me my favorite person to interview to talk with

for a Q&A episode and a welcome to the What's Essential Podcast again.

Thank you. Such a pleasure to be here with you Greg.

It's always a pleasure to have you on here and we had a question come in from Joanna Leney

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