Ep 44: Life Changing Essentialism + Doing Less
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Hilary Rushford
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🗓️ 29 January 2020
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
To live a life that’s extraordinary, with ease. This is what it is to be an essentialist. After reading the book Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less four times in the last five years, I share my 5 most powerful takeaways on how to stop trying to make too much happen, and only do what truly brings me the most joy.
- You have to know what you want, have a vision TO aspire to.
- You have to choose between really good things, to have great things.
- Requires saying no a lot.
- Truly about less is more, in such a more culture
- Asking the right questions
More resources in your own pursuit of doing “less but better”:
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- Ep 33: A Guide to Uncover Your Dreams
- Come say hello @HilaryRushford or leave me a voice memo HilaryRushford.com/podvip!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, |
| 0:02.0 | You're welcome. |
| 0:04.0 | What is that? |
| 0:08.0 | You're welcome. You're welcome. |
| 0:09.0 | With Hillary Rushford. |
| 0:11.0 | Say it again. |
| 0:12.0 | You're welcome. In advance. |
| 0:16.0 | Hello friend, happy Wednesday and happy almost February. Where has the month of January gone? |
| 0:22.0 | It feels like it is flown by and that feels particularly |
| 0:26.5 | ironic to me as I am speaking today about a specific moment that I can remember so clearly from five years ago. It was April |
| 0:36.7 | 2015 I was in Milan Italy over there to visit an Italian guy I was dating at the time and he was off at work and I was by |
| 0:45.0 | myself sitting in the cafe. I mean I just can picture where the cafe was and I was drinking a |
| 0:51.4 | cappuccino and I was reading a book that would go on to change my life. |
| 0:55.6 | And that book is essentialism. In the last five years, I've read this book four times. |
| 1:07.2 | The first time I read it, I remember having the feeling that I wanted to start underlining things, but I realized I just wanted to |
| 1:11.8 | underline the entire page and so I had the wisdom to not |
| 1:15.2 | underline anything and just accept that everything in this book was so powerful. |
| 1:20.5 | That is how I knew I read it four times because the first time I didn't |
| 1:23.3 | underline it and I am now on my third color of Highlighter, which is a level of |
| 1:27.6 | nurdiness I have achieved with no other book on my bookshelf. I don't think there is |
| 1:31.6 | any other book that I have read four times and now |
| 1:35.3 | that I am re-reading it again I am just being rocked by it afresh and underlining things that I didn't before, having things stand out at me. |
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