Greg McKeown: ...if you don't prioritize your life, someone else will

Nobody Told Me!

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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If you’ve ever felt overworked, overcommitted and overloaded, this episode is for you! We’re going to explore how we can do less, but do betterin every area of our lives by embracing the practice of “essentialism”.

Our guest is leadership and business strategist Greg McKeown, author of the New York Times bestseller, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me.
0:13.2	I'm Laura Owens.
0:14.5	And I'm Jan Black.
0:15.6	If you've ever felt overworked, overcommitted, and overloaded. This episode is for you. We're going to explore
0:23.3	how we can do less, but do better in every area of our lives by embracing the practice
0:30.4	of essentialism. Our guest is leadership and business strategist Greg McEwen, author of The New York
0:37.4	Times bestseller,
0:39.0	Essentialism, The Disciplined Pursuit of Less.
0:42.2	Greg, thank you so, so much for joining us today.
0:44.7	It's such an honor to talk to you.
0:46.6	It's my pleasure to be with you. Thank you.
0:48.8	So let's go to the basics for people who aren't familiar with you.
0:53.0	What is essentialism and how can we actually
0:57.1	be disciplined in pursuing less? It's such a foreign idea. Well, essentialism is an antidote
1:03.8	to a problem and the problem is the undisciplined pursuit of more where we're pooled in a million
1:08.7	different directions. We feel stretched too thin at work or at home.
1:12.4	We feel busy but not productive. We feel like our day is being hijacked by other people's agenda for us.
1:20.8	Essentialism is the answer to that challenge, that problem. If people are saying, yes, that's me,
1:25.4	then essentialism is the way out.
1:28.3	And it really has three parts to it.
1:30.0	You're creating space to explore what's essential.
1:33.9	You're developing the skill to eliminate the non-essential.
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