Greg Mckeown on Making Essential Activities Easy
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
Erik Fisher
4.5 • 877 Ratings
🗓️ 26 December 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
In this episode I'm excited to re-release a conversation I had with Greg Mckeown. Greg is the author of the New York Times Bestseller, 'Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less'. His latest book is 'Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most'. In addition to writing Greg is also the host of the 'What's Essential Podcast'.
In this conversation, Greg talks about what essentialism is and making the most essential activities the easiest ones, so you can achieve the results you want, without burning out. We talk about turning tedious tasks into enjoyable rituals, setting a sustainable pace instead of having to power through and easy setting up of one time choices that eliminate many future decisions, simplifying processes, removing unnecessary steps, making relationships easier to maintain and manage. This is all under that umbrella of effortless making things that matter most easier to do and this is a great conversation and a great book to kick start that process in your life.
In addition to discussing Essentialism, we talk about Greg’s follow up to that book, Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most. This was such a powerful and timely conversation that centers on figuring out what matters most and then making it easier. As we head into 2023, I cannot imagine a more relevant productivity goal than that!
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| 1:25.6 | Okay. Beyond. Square, meet you there. Hello, welcome back to another episode of Beyond the To Do List. |
| 1:30.7 | I am your host, Eric Fisher, and this is the show where I talk to the people behind the productivity. |
| 1:35.4 | This week, I'm excited to revisit, re-release, a conversation I had with Greg McEwen. |
| 1:42.4 | He's the New York Times bestselling author of |
| 1:45.0 | Essentialism, The Disciplined Pursuit of Less. And then in this conversation, we talk about |
| 1:50.9 | the follow-up to that book, effortless, make it easier to do what matters most. And honestly, |
| 1:57.2 | figuring out what matters most and then making it easier, what more of a productivity |
| 2:01.8 | goal is there than that? And honestly, that is my goal in 2023. And in this conversation and in |
| 2:08.9 | this book, he and I both talk about turning tedious tasks into enjoyable rituals, setting a |
| 2:16.8 | sustainable pace instead of having to power through, |
| 2:21.0 | an easy setting up of one-time choices that eliminate many future decisions, simplifying processes, |
| 2:28.8 | removing unnecessary steps, making relationships easier to maintain and manage. This is all under that umbrella of |
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