Only once you give yourself permission to stop trying to do it all, to stop saying yes to everyone, can you make your highest contribution towards the things that really matter.Greg McKeown
If you don’t prioritize your life, someone else will.Greg McKeown
Remember that if you don’t prioritize your life, someone else will.Greg McKeown
The way of the Essentialist is the path to being in control of our own choices.Greg McKeown
When we forget our ability to choose, we learn to be helpless.Greg McKeown
Sometimes what you don’t do is just as important as what you do.Greg McKeown
Essentialism is not about how to get more things done; it’s about how to get the right things done.Greg McKeown
To discern what is truly essential we need space to think, time to look and listen, permission to play, wisdom to sleep, and the discipline to apply highly selective criteria to the choices we make.Greg McKeown
It’s about making the wisest possible investment of your time and energy in order to operate at our highest point of contribution by doing only what is essential.Greg McKeown
We often think of choice as a thing, but a choice is not a thing. Our options may be things, but a choice—a choice is an action.Greg McKeown
The word priority came into the English language in the 1400s. It was singular. It meant the very first or prior thing. It stayed singular for the next five hundred years.Greg McKeown
in order to have focus we need to escape to focus.Greg McKeown