How do you know what’s essential in your life and what’s not?

Greg McKeown has helped top executives answer that question and reach peak performance. His premise is simple – cut out what isn’t useful so you have more time for what is … but the execution is a bit more complex: with all the opportunities, invites, resources, how can we clear our RAM, unclutter the desktop and folders in our head so we have more energy for what is essential.

Greg’s book Essentialism has been praised throughout Silicon Valley, and has brought Greg clients from companies including Adobe, Apple, Google, Facebook, Pixar, Salesforce.com, Symantec, Twitter, VMware, Yahoo! and more.

I started by asking Greg for advice on my own challenges...

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