Essentialism : Greg McKeown

My three lessons:

1. Progress
We can ask ourselves, "What is the smallest amount of progress that will be useful and valuable to the essential task we are trying to get done?".
"Early and small" means starting at the earliest possible moment with the minimal possible time investment.

2. Focus
Get present in the moment and ask yourself what is most important this very second - not what's most important tomorrow or even an hour from now.

3. Trade-off
Instead of asking, "What do I have to give up?" they ask, "What do I want to go big on?". The cumulative impact of this change in thinking can be profound.
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Clarity
If we could be truly excellent at only one thing, what would it be?

Sleep
Consider how many benefits of sleep - greater creativity, enhanced productivity, even lower health care costs - have the potential to directly affect the bottom line.

Buffer
One way to protect against this is simply to add a 50 per cent buffer to the amount of time we estimate it will take to complete a task or project.
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Essentialism

(Updated: Oct '19)