1. What essentialism is (and what it isn’t)

It is about applying the principles of ‘less but better’ to how we live our lives now and in the future.

Essentialism is not about how to get more things done; it’s about how to get the right things done.

Here are some lessons:

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2. Design space in your life to escape

Picasso said: “Without great solitude no serious work is possible.”

We need space to escape in order to discern the essential few from the trivial many.

In our time-starved era we don’t get that space by default—only by design.

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3. Spend time exploring

Essentialists spend as much time as possible exploring, listening, debating, questioning, and thinking. But their exploration is not an end in itself.

The purpose of the exploration is to discern the vital few from the trivial many.

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4. Realize you have a choice

We have lost our ability to filter what is important and what isn’t.

Psychologists call this ‘decision fatigue’: the more choices we are forced to make, the more the quality of our decisions deteriorates.

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5. Define your purpose

Inspirational + Concrete = Essential Intent (1 decision that eliminates rest)

Creating an essential intent is hard. It takes courage insight and foresight to see which activities and efforts will add up to your single highest point of contribution

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6. Focus on the vital few

Stephen Covey Said: The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

The word priority came into the English language in the 1400s. It was singular. Only in the 1900s did we pluralize the term and start talking about priorities.

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7. Move from motion sickness to momentum

Instead of making just a millimeter of progress in a million directions begin to generate tremendous momentum towards accomplishing the things that is truly vital.

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8. Be the CEO — Chief Editing Officer

Becoming an Essentialist means:

- making cutting
- condensing
- correcting

a natural part of our daily routin

(making editing a natural cadence in our lives)

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9. Say “NO”

Anytime you fail to say ‘no’ to a nonessential, you are really saying yes by default.

Everyone is selling something. Simply being aware of what is being sold allows us to be more deliberate in deciding whether we want to buy it.

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10. Sleep

Even a brief period of deep sleep, in other words, helps us make the kinds of new connections that allow us to better explore our world.

In a nutshell, sleep is what allows us to operate at our highest level of contribution so that we can achieve more, in less time

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"The more you know, the less you diversify."

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Working on a problem reduces the fear of it.

It’s hard to fear a problem when you are making progress on it—even if progress is imperfect and slow.

Action relieves anxiety.

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15 Inspiring Quotes from “Seneca”

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1) “Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.”

- Seneca

2) “The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.”

- Seneca

3) “Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”

- Seneca

4) “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

- Seneca

5) “One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship,
is to understand and to be understood.”

- Seneca

6) “Being poor is not having too little, it is wanting more.”

- Seneca

7) "Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end."

- Seneca

8) “Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.”

- Seneca

9) "True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future. "

- Seneca

10) "Time heals what reason cannot."

- Seneca

11) "The greatest remedy for anger is delay."

- Seneca

12) "Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life."

- Seneca

13) "If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him."

- Seneca

14) “It is better to conquer our grief than to deceive it.”

- Seneca

15) "As is a tale, so is life: Not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters."

- Seneca

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"If you need to memorize it, then you didn't understand it."

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There are 3 primary drivers of results in life:

1) Your luck (randomness).
2) Your strategy (choices).
3) Your actions (habits).

Only 2 of the 3 are under your control.

But if you master those 2, you can improve the odds that luck will work for you rather than against you.

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"It’s becoming easier and easier to be social, but exceptional people are built in solitude."

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• Don't try to become a writer. Start writing.

• Don't try to become a programmer. Start making something you need.

• Don't try to become an entrepreneur. Start fending for yourself.

Forget about the label. Just do stuff.

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Be “selectively ignorant.”

Ignore topics that drain your attention.

Unfollow people that drain your energy.

Abandon projects that drain your time.

Do not keep up with it all. The more selectively ignorant you become, the more broadly knowledgable you can be.

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"Would you still be interested in doing something,

If you couldn't tell anyone about it?"

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