“only once you give yourself permission to stop trying to do it all, to stop saying yes to everyone, can you make… — Greg McKeown Saying yes Copy Share Image
“A true Essentialist, Peter Drucker believed that “people are effective because they say no.” — Greg Mckeown Simplicity Copy Share Image
“When you say yes to something nonessential, you are saying no to something essential” — Greg McKeown Copy Share Image
“Have you ever felt stuck because you believed you did not really have a choice? Have you ever felt the stress that… — Greg McKeown Choice Copy Share Image
“Just make sure to select something that was written before our hyperconnected era and yet seems timeless. Such writings can challenge our… — Greg McKeown Writing Copy Share Image
“LIFE IS AVAILABLE ONLY IN THE PRESENT MOMENT. IF YOU ABANDON THE PRESENT MOMENT YOU CANNOT LIVE THE MOMENTS OF YOUR DAILY… — Greg McKeown Daily life Copy Share Image
“In a reverse pilot you test whether removing an initiative or activity will have any negative consequences.” — Greg McKeown Copy Share Image
“are vital. The way of the Essentialist involves learning to tell the difference—learning to filter through all those options and selecting only… — Greg McKeown Learning Copy Share Image
“activities and efforts to keep in your life, you have to have a system for executing them. You can’t wait until that… — Greg McKeown Life Copy Share Image
Play stimulates the parts of the brain involved in both careful, logical reasoning and carefree, unbound exploration. — Greg McKeown Brain Copy Share Image
The ability to choose cannot be taken away or even given away-it can only be forgotten. — Greg McKeown Ability Copy Share Image
“As Peter Drucker said, “In a few hundred years, when the history of our time will be written from a long-term perspective,… — Greg McKeown History Copy Share Image
“MOST OF WHAT EXISTS IN THE UNIVERSE—OUR ACTIONS, AND ALL OTHER FORCES, RESOURCES, AND IDEAS—HAS LITTLE VALUE AND YIELDS LITTLE RESULT; ON… — Greg McKeown Physics Copy Share Image
We often think of choice as a thing. But a choice is not a thing. Our options may be things, but a… — Greg McKeown Action Copy Share Image
“choice is an action. It is not just something we have but something we do.” — Greg McKeown Choice Copy Share Image
“Is there a point at which doing less (but thinking more) will actually produce better outcomes?” — Greg McKeown Copy Share Image
“...the faster and busier things get, the more we need to build thinking time into our schedule. And the noisier things get,… — Greg McKeown Quiet reflection Copy Share Image
“I have worked tirelessly to understand why so many bright, smart, capable individuals remain snared in the death grip of the nonessential.” — Greg McKeown Death Copy Share Image
“The way of the Essentialist means living by design, not by default. Instead of making choices reactively, the Essentialist deliberately distinguishes the… — Greg McKeown Making choices Copy Share Image
“The results of this research were startling: when there was a high level of clarity of purpose, the teams and the people… — Greg McKeown Clarity of purpose Copy Share Image
I think we’ve been oversold the value of more and undersold the value of less. — Greg McKeown Inspirational Copy Share Image
