Podcast Notes Key Takeaways

• Just because someone is busier than you doesn’t mean they’re more important  
  • Being busy isn’t an achievement 
• Ask yourself: “What is my mission? What is the thing I came here to do?” – Greg McKeown
  • Once you’ve identified your mission and your important tasks, you can focus on them without having FOMO
    • “Instead of the fear of missing out or FOMO, you start to have the joy of missing out or JOMO”
• “When you’re sleep deprived, the executive function of your brain goes down so you can’t discern properly between what’s important and what’s not important” – Greg McKeown
  • Top performers tend to sleep 8.4 hours per night
• You don’t become successful and then become disciplined, you become disciplined and then you become successful
• Every day you should be writing out your to-do list and then prioritizing it
  • Create a new list every day, what was important yesterday isn’t always important today
• Two questions you need to ask yourself: 
  • Who am I?
  • Why am I here?
    • If you never ask yourself those questions, the stuff on your to-do list could be completely wrong

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Greg McKeown is a public speaker, leadership & business strategist and New York Times Bestselling Author.

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