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Effortless

Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most

by Greg McKeown
Greg McKeown
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A Times (UK) Best Book of the Year • From the author of the million-copy-selling Essentialism comes an empowering guide to achieving your goals. It all starts with a simple principle: Not everything has to be so hard.
“In a world beset by burnout, Greg McKeown’s work is essential.”—Daniel H. Pink, author of When, Drive, and To Sell Is Human 
 “At a time when fear, uncertainty, and our ever-growing list of responsibilities have come to feel like much too much to handle, Effortless couldn’t be timelier, or more necessary.”—Eve Rodsky, author of Fair Play

Do you ever feel like:
• You’re teetering right on the edge of burnout?
• You want to make a higher contribution, but lack the energy?  
• You’re running faster but not moving closer to your goals?
• Everything is so much harder than it used to be?
As high achievers, we’ve been conditioned to believe that the path to success is paved with relentless work. That if we want to overachieve, we have to overexert, overthink, and overdo. That if we aren’t perpetually exhausted, we’re not doing enough.
But lately, working hard is more exhausting than ever. And the more depleted we get, the more effort it takes to make progress. Stuck in an endless loop of “Zoom, eat, sleep, repeat,” we’re often working twice as hard to achieve half as much.
Getting ahead doesn’t have to be as hard as we make it. No matter what challenges or obstacles we face, there is a better way: instead of pushing ourselves harder, we can find an easier path. 
Effortless offers actionable advice for making the most essential activities the easiest ones, so you can achieve the results you want, without burning out.  
Effortless teaches you how to:
• Turn tedious tasks into enjoyable rituals
• Prevent frustration by solving problems before they arise  
• Set a sustainable pace instead of powering through
• Make one-time choices that eliminate many future decisions
• Simplify your processes by removing unnecessary steps
• Make relationships easier to maintain and manage
• And much more   
The effortless way isn't the lazy way. It's the smart way. It may even be the only way. 
Not every hard thing in life can be made easy. But we can make it easier to do more of what matters most.

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    April 27, 2021

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      • ISBN: 9780593153932
      • File size: 173929 KB
      • Duration: 06:02:21

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Library Journal

      June 1, 2021

      Leadership consultant McKeown (Essentialism) focuses on managing effort expenditure and priorities in this book, to help listeners find an easier way to do hard things. He sets out three steps: get into an effortless state of relaxation, from which it is easier to do things; take effortless action to examine yourself and your motivations; and achieve effortless results. The goal is that listeners learn to do the most essential activities more easily, in order to get more done without burning out. McKeown explains how to add fun to the essential, hard tasks that we might tend to postpone; for instance, he suggests watching a favorite TV program while exercising, or eating chocolate while doing your taxes. While Essentialism explained how to determine the tasks that matter most, Effortless aims to teach the right way to do the right things. VERDICT Though McKeown's impassioned effort to help listeners lighten their burdens is commendable, his ideas will offer little new to many listeners, especially those already familiar with the solid, "true north" principles and time management quadrants of Steven Covey's Seven Habits of Highly Effective People and David Allen's Getting Things Done. Still, McKeown's lively, controlled narration and jargon-free, anecdote-filled material will benefit stressed, overworked listeners who might mistakenly believe that 80-hour work weeks build character. Recommended for public libraries.--Dale Farris, Groves, TX

      Copyright 2021 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Greg McKeown's British enunciation and slow pace create a tone of gravitas perfect for savoring his message that we make work too complicated and laborious. His intense performance is positively magnetic. Listeners won't want to miss any part of his arresting and well-argued ideas. We are more productive and happier, he says, when we avoid the oppressing clutter of overachievement and get things done in the simplest and most enjoyable way possible. He offers examples and tips to help us overcome the cultural bias that good things are hard to do and that what is easy is not valuable. This high-impact audio provides the rationale and tools listeners need to slow down the relentless rat race and start enjoying life's important tasks. T.W. © AudioFile 2021, Portland, Maine

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