Greg McKeown on How to Make Life Easier

The One You Feed | Personal Growth, Emotional Resilience & Purpose

Eric Zimmer, The One You Feed

Self-improvement, Education, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Buddhism

4.5 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Greg McKeown is an author, public speaker in leadership, and business strategist. Greg often speaks on how to live and lead as an essentialist. He has dedicated his career to discovering why some people and teams break through to the next level—and others don’t. His writing has appeared or been covered by The New York Times, Fortune, HuffPost, Politico, and Harvard Business Review. He is the CEO of McKeown Inc. whose clients include Adobe, Apple, Google, Facebook, Pixar, Twitter, and Yahoo!. In this episode, Eric and Greg discuss his book, Effortless: Make it Easier to Do What Matters Most. But wait – there’s more! The episode is not quite over!! We continue the conversation and you can access this exclusive content right in your podcast player feed. Head over to our Patreon page and pledge to donate just $10 a month. It’s that simple and we’ll give you good stuff as a thank you! In This Interview, Greg McKeown and I Discuss How to Make Life Easier and … His book, Effortless: Make it Easier to Do What Matters Most The power of gratitude – and how it literally cannot be overpracticed The practice of saying something you’re grateful for after every time you complain What it means to live in the gain vs. live in the gap Asking yourself, “what if there’s no other way than this to grow in this life?” The many ways we make life harder than it needs to be That holding a grudge is a primary way of making life harder than it is The power of asking the question: “What did I hire this grudge to do? Is it doing it?” The way conditions on forgiveness still trap you overtime Using words to create the future relationships I want The role and power of Deep Listening Greg McKeown Links: Greg’s Website Instagram Facebook Twitter If you enjoyed this conversation with Greg McKeown, you might also enjoy these other episodes: Finding Zen in the Ordinary with Christopher Keevil Melody Warnick on Loving the Place You Live See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	If you focus on what you lack, you will lose what you have.
0:04.1	If you focus on what you have, you will gain what you lack.
0:08.6	Welcome to the One You Feed.
0:18.5	Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have,
0:23.0	quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true.
0:28.6	And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us.
0:32.9	We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear.
0:37.6	We see what we don't have, instead of what we do, we think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit.
0:44.0	But it's not just about thinking, our actions matter.
0:47.4	It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living.
0:52.3	This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction,
0:56.7	how they feed their good wolf.
1:12.5	My father was a block star.
1:14.2	It was like Biddlemania.
1:15.8	But not here in America.
1:17.2	Dean re-criticized the American government from behind the Iron Curtain.
1:20.8	He had lots of enemies.
1:22.3	He was coming up to think all.
1:23.9	He wanted to come back home and then think about what happened.
1:27.6	Dean re-dit.
1:28.9	Come with me, Ramona Reade, to learn more about the extraordinary life and mysterious death of revolutionary.
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