![]() And then building a system to make it as easy as possible to do what really matters is those three things explore, eliminate, and execute. But what does it mean to identify as an essentialist?Īn essentialist is someone who is really exploring what is essential, eliminating everything that is not essential. What is a voluntary essentialist? And for those who have not read your book, or have not listened to your podcast, and I was saying it before you came on, you can listen to your podcast, you can follow you on Instagram where you post really thought provoking questions. You said that COVID made all of us around the world in voluntary essentialist. So this is a chance, I think, 2020 or pause in a way, amidst all the exhaustion or the uncertainty to wonder what is it we want 2021 to be what are the essentials, we want to design our life around? But that doesn’t mean we want to rush back to how it was before this frenetic, frantic undisciplined pursuit of more ease. So So it’s this sense that yes, we don’t want to be living in this as our new normal forever. And and so that’s the opportunity, the great reset that we we had to be able to really work out of all these things we were doing previously, which ones really mattered to us, which ones do we want to go back to? There’s a yougov poll in the UK that showed that only 9% of people wanted to go back to how things were before. ![]() Yeah, it was like it was like we’d all been sent to our room, you know, somebody up there said, Look, you know, you go and you go and sit down, and you have a good Think about it. Well, it’s, um, I mean, everybody when COVID first hit, suddenly had to live as involuntary essentialists. How do you think the word has evolved this year into our vernacular? terms of who’s essential, who’s not what’s essential, what’s not. And we’ve heard it used so much this year. But I thought it would be such a great way to kind of end out this year to talk to you because you kind of coined this phrase essentialism. And I’ve quoted you and written about some of the things that you’ve written about. But you know that I’m an admirer of yours. Well, I’m so glad you know, we haven’t really met. I need you to join me and then I’ll wrap you up really well. You just need to keep on going? Because you could I couldn’t do better myself. I’m well, but your intro there was amazing. And then hopefully he’ll be joining us with His wisdom. Today, we’re going to find a way out while we I’m really excited. ![]() He and then he says if you answered yes to any of these, the way out is the way of the essential as root, there’s a way out. Does your day sometimes get hijacked by someone else’s agenda? Very often for me, have you ever said yes, simply to please and then resented it? Yes, that would be me, too. Do you feel motion sickness instead of momentum? That’s an interesting question. ![]() ![]() He said, have you ever found yourself stretched too thin? Do you sometimes feel overwhelmed and underutilized? Yep. We’ll be calm about hearing him sit back. So, Debbie says, Hi, I’m so anxious to hear him. And that actually ends up leaving us feeling depleted, angry at ourselves, or feeling like we’re not really doing anything, and we’re just actually doing too much. And, you know, maybe there’s many of us who do too many things and don’t actually focus on the one or two things that we should be focusing on. And he talks about the importance of boundaries, about discernment, about asking yourself certain questions that help you decide what actually is essential in your life, what’s keeping you from actually focusing on your priorities. Because I think so much of what he says, and you can follow him on Instagram, obviously, you can read his book, he has a podcast. And I’ve been a big fan of his, an admirer of his and this conversation, we’re going to put it up in the Sunday paper. And that’s why I really wanted to have Greg McKeown join us today, he wrote the best-selling book essentialism, the disciplined pursuit of less the discipline, pursuit of less. And somebody today that I hope will help us get through the weekend and through these last couple of weeks of this year, and help us prepare for the new year by talking about what’s really essential in our lives. And I’m really glad to be speaking with somebody today that I admire. I’m so happy that we’re all here together on a Friday. ![]()
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