The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

Tom Earl

October 30, 2022

T.H.E. Celebration

Original Air Date: October 18, 2021

Less is more. Truly.

But as humans we always seem to want more. Is the desire for more causing us to lose what truly matters?

In this episode, I share my thoughts on the practice of pursuing less.

Some refer to this as ‘essentialism’ since the purpose is to maintain a deep focus on only the most important things in life.

This discipline is just like any in that it takes a lot of practice. Mindfulness. An active re-commitment to simplifying things we try to complicate.

According to Greg McKeown, “It’s a systematic discipline for discerning what is absolutely essential, then eliminating everything that is not, so we can make the highest possible contribution toward the things that really matter.”

If you feel:

• burnt out

• overworked

• unproductive

• unhappy, but too busy to change it

… then this might be the change you’re looking for.

A way to finally take control of your life and jump off the treadmill that’s leading nowhere, but exhausting you.

I invite you to have a listen, to see if what’s in this episode makes the difference in your outlook that it has on mine.

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Tom Earl

November 8, 2021

T.H.E. Celebration

Discovering Your Effortless State

Tom Earl

November 8, 2021

T.H.E. Celebration

“Burnout is not a badge of honor. It is true that hard work can equal better results. But this is true only to a point…

All too often, we sacrifice our time, our energy, and even our sanity, almost believing that sacrifice is essential in and of itself...

...what if, instead, we took the opposite approach? If instead of pushing ourselves to, and in some cases well past, our limit, we sought out an easier path?”

—Greg McKeown

A few week’s ago we explored McKeown’s book Essentialism and this week we jump straight into his follow up book, “Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most.”

Personally, I love grit.

And hard work.

And sweat.

That feeling when I’m in the zone, where everything just flows and all time and surroundings disappear.

Then there’s the feeling where there are a million to-dos on a very long list and I’m waking up in the middle of the night, exhausted, but still feeling the push to get up and start crossing things off that list.

Then I read these words from Effortless: “Relaxing is a responsibility.”

Wow.

How does that sit with you? Kind of uncomfortable right?

I invite you to take this journey together into how we can reach that effortless state while dedicating more of our time to what truly matters to each of us. Because I’m working on it and I think we’re both going to get so much out of it.

Let’s do this.

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P.S. You can learn more about Greg McKeown’s book here: