This is Your Life

Episode 7: Why Doing Less Is the Best Way to Do More [Podcast]


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Welcome to the new season of This Is Your Life. In this seventh episode, Michele Cushatt, my co-host, and I talk about Greg McKeown’s most recent book, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less.



Like cleaning out a cluttered closet, McKeown recommends that we intentionally declutter our lives from the well-intended commitments and activities we’ve accumulated.

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He outlines three steps:


Explore and evaluate.
Eliminate.
Execute.


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You can download a complete, word-for-word transcript of this episode here, courtesy of Ginger Schell, a professional transcriptionist, who does all my transcriptions.

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My favorite part of doing these podcasts is participating in the conversation they provoke. Each week, I ask one question. This week, it is this:



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Explore Additional Resources

In this episode we mentioned several resources, including:


Book: Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No to Take Control of Your Life by Henry Cloud and John Townsend


Book: Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen




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