Essentialism | Greg McKeown

THE ESSENTIALIST DOESN’T DO MORE THINGS IN LESS TIME – HE JUST DOES THE RIGHT THINGS.

If you feel overwhelmed and underutilized at the same time, busy but unproductive, and if your time seems to serve only the interests of others, you need to know about essentialism.

Essentialism is more than a time management strategy or a productivity technique. It’s a method of identifying what’s vital and eliminating everything else, so that we can make the greatest possible contribution to what really matters.

When we try to do it all and have it all, we make compromises that take us further away from our goal. If we don’t decide where to focus our time and energy, other people—bosses, colleagues, clients, and even family—decide for us, and soon we lose sight of what’s meaningful.

In this book, Greg McKeown shows that to balance work and personal life, it is not enough to simply refuse requests at random: we must eliminate what is not essential and get rid of time wasters. We must learn to reduce, simplify and stay focused on our goals.

When we perform tasks that do not utilize our talents and make commitments just to please others, we give up our power of choice. Essentialists make their own decisions – and only take action if they can make a difference.

“Greg McKeown reminds us that clarity of focus and the ability to say ‘no’ are undervalued but essential aspects of doing business today.” – Jeff Weiner, CEO of LinkedIn

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