Realizing that there simply were not enough hours in the day to do everything he had volunteered to do, Jeremy thought he’d try the “Moses Method” to hold the sun still.

TIPS & TRICKS

Book Recommendation

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Management & Leadership

Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

By: Greg McKeown

More isn’t always better. Hustle culture, paying your dues, and going the extra mile are all good, but there does come a point where one more responsibility really starts to cost you. You realize you’ve double-booked; you missed a crucial deadline; there just isn’t enough time in the day, and yet the tasks continue to mount. We generally take on more and more responsibilities as we get older, even though we can’t imagine how we’ll pull it all off. We know that we need to trim down what’s on our plates so that we can focus on what is most important, but it never seems to work out when we try to reduce what we’re doing every week.

This is, according to Greg McKeown, in part due to the fact that we are not consciously employing a system to evaluate opportunities, requests, and tasks as they come in. It is because we do not stop to determine what is and is not essential.

In McKeown’s revolutionary book – which is a marvelous mixture of common sense and deep insights – you will read about the way of the essentialist, which is summed up in these three words: “Less, but better.”

Focusing, niching down, and delegating are all things that we as business leaders know we need to be doing – but if you aren’t sure how, give Essentialism a try.

You can check out Essentialism by Greg McKeown here.

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