I just finished reading Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most by Greg McKeown.
It was the perfect sequel to the book that changed my life last year: Essentialism—The Disciplined Pursuit of Less.
This book challenges the notion that anything important or valuable has to be hard work.
Hard work is lovely, but it’s wildly beneficial to us if we stop and ask: “What would it look like if this were easy?”
I’m a slow reader…and I flew through this in two days because I enjoyed it so much.
My biggest takeaways:
• Burnout is not a badge of honor.
• The more you complain, the more you have to complain about. The more grateful you are, the more you have to be grateful for.
• When you focus on what you lack, you lose what you have. When you focus on what you have, you get what you lack.
• Establish clear conditions for what ‘done’ means, then stop.
• There is no mastery without making mistakes. And there is no learning without the courage to be rubbish.