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To conclude my series of podcast episodes about the importance of “Focusing”, I was honored to interview Greg McKeown, author of the New York Times Best Seller Book – Essentialism: the Disciplined Pursuit of Less.

Greg has taught at companies that include Apple, Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Salesforce, and Pixar.

He is also an amazing keynote speaker that I had the opportunity to meet at the ICON15– The InfusionSoft Annual Conference held in Phoenix, Arizona.

Here are some of the topics we spoke about:

• What is “Essentialism”?
• Information and opinion overload
• Emails in mobile devices as a distraction
• Discern between the vital few and the trivial many
• Becoming an essentialist is not an event, it’s a process
• Importance of pressing the pause button
• Small changes produce big results
• The power of a short breathing exercise
• The paradox of success
• Essentialism is not one more thing
• Essentialism is a journey
• Three Simple Daily Practices to Become an Essentialist:
  1. Press the pause button – Breath slowly for 3 breaths
  2. Top Six Priorities – Focus on the first one: The Priority
  3. Write Down Five Successful Trade-offs and Celebrate that!

Next steps:

• Listen to the book: Essentialism
• Read the book: Essentialism