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Category Archives: Business
Carte Blanche
From now until you go to sleep tonight, it’s your call.
What a gift.
How you do today…
…is how you’ll do tomorrow.
Unless you change something today…
…tomorrow won’t change.
Golf and Gossip (and anything else for that matter)
You are not good at golf the first time you ever take a swing.
The more you play, the better you get.
Sure, some have a natural swing, but for most, the more they tee it up, the better they get.
And this goes for everything.
The more we tee up a critique, the better we become at critiquing. The more we tee up empathy and compassion the more comfortable we become at leaving our shoes and entering another’s.
So here’s the work…
Can you be aware enough today (and tomorrow) to realize that your practices and disciplines may have you on a trajectory that is nowhere close to your true goals and desires?
Practice doesn’t make perfect.
It creates purpose.
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
The Way of the Essentialist involves doing less, but better, so you can make the highest possible contribution.
The Way of the Essentialist isn’t about getting more done in less time. It’s not about getting less done. It’s about getting only the right things done. It’s about challenging the core assumption of ‘we can have it all’ and ‘I have to do everything’ and replacing it with
the pursuit of ‘the right thing, in the right way, at the right time’. It’s about regaining control of our own choices about where to spend our time and energies instead of giving others implicit permission to choose for us.
In Essentialism, Greg McKeown draws on experience and insight from working with the leaders of the most innovative companies in the world to show how to achieve the disciplined pursuit of less.
By applying a more selective criteria for what is essential, the pursuit of less allows us to regain control of our own choices so we can channel our time, energy and effort into making the highest possible contribution toward the goals and activities that matter.
This week at Good / True / & Beautiful Podcast Greg McKeown joins us as we talk about Essentialism and the numerous key takeaways this work offers.
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