Essential Take Aways From Greg Mckeowns’ “Essentialism”

  • Priority is a singular word. “Priorities” is a word we use to trick ourselves into thinking there can be more than 1 most important thing to do.
  • Pareto’s Principal states that 80% of outcomes are the result of 20% of causes. aka the 80/20 rule.
    • ask yourself – what is the my priority? slowly decide what it IS by eliminating all the options it is NOT.
    • will this be worth my time if I say my hourly rate is 50$/hr?
    • what is the least amount of effort I can put in to get the maximal result?
    • Warren Buffet attributes 90% of his wealth to 10 investments.
    • what could you do today to eliminate some of the noise in your life?
  • Learn to embody “no” as a response.
  • “we need to learn to slow yes, and the quick no”.
  • Get out of the vicious cycle of “sunk cost bias”. stop losing. continuing to lose is not a circle that will bring you around to success.

more to come,

AL

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