These things will inevitably extend far beyond the limited time available.
“A Done for the Day list is not a list of everything we theoretically could do today, or a list of everything we would love to get done. “To avoid diminishing returns on your time and effort, establish clear conditions for what “done” looks like, get there, then stop.” ― Greg McKeown, Effortless: Make It Easy to Get the Right Things Done Do not do more this week than you can completely recover from this week.” ― Greg McKeown, Effortless: Make It Easy to Get the Right Things Done “Do not do more today than you can completely recover from today. “By pairing essential activities with enjoyable ones, we can make tackling even the most tedious and overwhelming tasks more effortless.” ― Greg McKeown, Effortless: Make It Easy to Get the Right Things Done “If you want to make something hard, indeed truly impossible, to complete, all you have to do is make the end goal as vague as possible.” ― Greg McKeown, Effortless: Make It Easy to Get the Right Things Done Economists call this the law of diminishing returns:” ― Greg McKeown, Effortless: Make It Easy to Get the Right Things Done “Past a certain point, more effort doesn’t produce better performance. Each of us has - as Robert Frost wrote - “Promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep.” No matter what challenges, obstacles or hardships we encounter along the way, we can always look for the easier, simpler path.” ― Greg McKeown, Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most “Life doesn’t have to be as hard and complicated as we make it. “the complexity of modern life has created a false dichotomy between things that are “essential and hard” and things that are “easy and trivial.” ― Greg McKeown, Effortless: Make It Easy to Get the Right Things Done Burnout is not a badge of honor.” ― Greg McKeown, Effortless: Make It Easy to Get the Right Things Done That great things are reserved for those who bleed, for those who almost break. The implicit message is that if we aren’t perpetually exhausted, we must not be doing enough. It doesn’t help that our culture glorifies burnout as a measure of success and self-worth. “Strangely, some of us respond to feeling exhausted and overwhelmed by vowing to work even harder and longer. “Perfectionism makes essential projects hard to start, self-doubt makes them hard to finish, and trying to do too much, too fast, makes it hard to sustain momentum.” ― Greg McKeown, Effortless: Make It Easy to Get the Right Things Done Effortless offers actionable advice for making the most essential activities the easiest ones, so that we can achieve the results we want, without burning out.
No matter what challenges or obstacles we face, there is a better way: instead of pushing ourselves harder, we can find an easier path. In (#AD) Effortless: Make It Easy to Get the Right Things Done, Greg McKeown explains that getting ahead doesn’t have to be as hard as we make it. If we aren’t perpetually exhausted, it means that we are not doing enough.īut the more exhausted we are, the harder it is to make progress. We end up working twice as hard to achieve half as much.
If we want to overachieve, we have to overexert, overthink, and overdo. In our modern world we try to be high-achievers because we have been conditioned to believe that the path to success is paved with relentless work.