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Seven Tenets of Essentialism from Greg McKeown

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When Greg McKeown’s new book, Effortless, hit the shelves, I couldn’t wait to read it. Who wouldn’t want to read a book promising to “make it easier to do what matters most”? I checked it out of my local library and spent two weeks devouring every word. Immediately, I knew I had to go back and read Essentialism again.   If you aren’t familiar with Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less, it is the million-copy international best seller that McKeown released in 2014. I first read it in 2018. At the time, I was decluttering my house and reading all the Read more…

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Six Systems for Success in the New Year

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A few years ago, I stopped making New Year’s resolutions and started setting goals. Resolutions tend to be big dreams or vague ideas, whereas goals are more action-oriented. Goals require us to take practical steps in a certain direction. But here’s what I’ve noticed about goals: they can be just as elusive as dreams if we don’t develop effective systems and habits to support them. As a society, our New Year’s resolutions don’t change much from year to year. Let’s name five of the ten most popular resolutions. (We won’t even need Google. It’s easy.) Lose weight, get out of Read more…

Habits

How Small Habits Produce Big Changes

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Earlier this year, I wrote a blog post explaining how I came to believe I’m capable of change. For me, it started with practicing minimalism. I didn’t make a big, sweeping change all at once, but took many tiny steps toward my goal over time. Since then, I’ve been working on developing more good habits, and I’ve done some research on how to make them stick. The more I’ve learned about the science of habits, the more I’ve become fascinated by the way our brains work. We can apply what we know about habit formation to improve our lives in Read more…