Essentialism by Greg McKeown

I've been meaning to read this book for a long time as it keeps getting recommended on various podcasts and articles that I enjoy. I very much enjoyed going through it, and it's going to be one that I pick up permanently.

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In the book, McKeown goes highlights how fractious and confused life can be. The constant push for more means that we are increasingly pulled in different directions and tasked with a hundred different things.

Refreshingly, this book doesn't suggest stopping and 'being happy with what you've got'. Instead, it sets out the benefits of doing one thing at a time and doing that one thing really well. You can of course have different projects and jobs floating around, but when you're doing one thing - just do that one thing.

It's a process that I follow on a daily basis now. Although I still get pulled across a number of directions in work, knowing what my focus is and should be for a day or (preferably) a week means that I have the confidence to push my calls and admin back so that I can concentrate on what's essential to me at the time.

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