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 ladies and gentlemen welcome to

the what's essential podcast. I'm your host Greg McEwan. We've been here before

thank you for listening again. Thank you for allowing me to be a part of your day.

Maybe you're actually taking a break. Just listening to this in the calm. That would be perfect

given the theme we're going to get to today. But maybe this is also just part of your

ongoing routine. You're driving somewhere. Maybe you're on a walk. Maybe you're on a run.

Maybe you're bike riding, tidying up somewhere. Maybe you wish you were relaxing

right now. Just be here for a moment with me. Take a deep breath. I know how much

you have going on in your life. I know how intense it can be. How relentless

life continues to be, the unexpected, the challenges. So let me ask you a question.

Have you ever struggled between that tension of not doing enough and doing too much?

This is almost silly to ask you. Have you ever pushed yourself past the point of exhaustion

on one day so that you wake up the next day depleted or just thrashed?

Well, if you have, then today's episode is a good one for you because you're going to leave

today's episode knowing an absolute key for how to maintain peak performance.

You know, because it's all very well to have a moment of peak performance, to have a day of

peak performance. But the key is to be able to have peak performance for not a month, not a year,

a decade. You know, it's the rest of your life. That's the challenge. That's the issue.

And as I think about this today, I want to frame our conversation with a conundrum that I have

been grappling with for the last 25 years. This is when I was originally on my mission and I was

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