Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less with Greg McKeown
The Dad Edge Podcast
Larry Hagner
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2018
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Do you ever feel the urge to declutter your life? Have you ever found yourself stretched too thin? Do you sometimes feel overworked and underutilized? Are you frequently busy without getting any closer to your goals?
Most of us in this day and age feel perpetually busy and overwhelmed, with little energy and time to spend on the things in life that matter the most to us.
Today we have a very special guest. Greg McKeown is the NY Times bestselling author of Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less. He shares astonishing insights on how family life has changed throughout the centuries, how our behavioral systems impact future generations, and how to design our lives to focus on essentials so we can stay connected with our long-term visions. You'll want to save this epic episode!
For the show notes and links mentioned in this episode, go to gooddadproject.com/165.
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| 0:00.0 | We are men. We are warriors. We are dads. Dads with a purpose. Dads with an edge. We sharpen our skills so we can show up best for others. |
| 0:15.0 | We have one shot in life to be a dad. |
| 0:20.6 | Why not make it epic? |
| 0:30.0 | What's up? What's up? What's up? How you guys doing? |
| 0:32.0 | Welcome to the Dad Edge Podcast. I'm Larry Hagner. I'm your host. |
| 0:36.9 | This is the Dad Edge Podcast formerly known as the Good Dad Project podcast. |
| 0:42.4 | If this is your first time here, we've been around for |
| 0:44.7 | over three years. We are one of the top rated podcasts on iTunes for dads and that's all appreciative of you guys. Thank you so much for leaving |
| 0:56.8 | your iTunes reviews, supporting the show, sharing the show, and all that good stuff. |
| 1:01.6 | So a question for you guys as we get started today, |
| 1:05.0 | have you ever felt the urge to declutter your work life? |
| 1:10.0 | Do you often find yourself stretched way too thin? |
| 1:14.5 | Do you simultaneously feel overworked and underutilized? |
| 1:18.0 | And are you frequently busy but yet not productive? I don't know about you guys but I can relate to every single one of those questions |
| 1:30.0 | Most of us men we are overwhelmed with tasks, what to-do's, with things in our life. |
| 1:36.4 | We are busy, but not productive. And busyness doesn't equal results. |
| 1:42.8 | I think we can all agree on that. |
| 1:45.0 | I have been wanting to bring on today's guests |
| 1:48.4 | for a very long time. |
| 1:50.6 | Today I have best-selling author of essentialism, the pursuit of less, the disciplined pursuit of less. |
| 2:00.0 | Greg McEwen wrote the book Essentialism and this book guys let me tell you I think we can all agree that there are five to ten books that we read in our life that are completely game-changing for us. |
| 2:14.0 | They're totally game-changing. |
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