Essentialism

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Essentialism - By Greg McKeown is one such book that literally helped me in many areas of my life.

• The author tries to explain a simple principle of Less but Better in various manner and the very first thing that strikes me in this book was the line - If you don’t prioritize your life, someone else will. 
  
  
• It periodically tries to explain that we should select a few important things that actually matter to us from the many random things that we try to accomplish but rather fail in it. To discern the vital few from the trivial many, there is a hack presented in the book and i.e, Explore & Evaluate, then Eliminate and finally Execute.
   
•  It tells us in order to focus we need to create space, give ourselves leeway by reserving some personal time because The faster and busier things get, the more we need to build thinking time into our schedule and the noisier things get, the more we need to build quiet reflection places in which we can truly focus.
   
•  It says that the main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing and Our highest priority is to protect our ability to prioritize. I realized that our time is actually valuable & priceless and that we have the full right to say No to the things which we don’t want to do or need to do. The only difference is we can put up our No in a graceful manner without offending anyone including ourselves as A clear No can be more graceful than a vague or Noncommital Yes.
  
  
•   Lastly, the supreme message that the author tries to give is To operate at your highest level of contribution requires that you deliberately tune in to what is important in the here and now.
  
  
  
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