The Bossticks - Effortless: How To Make It Easier To Do What Matters Most With NYT Best Selling Author Greg McKeown

Episode Date: August 16, 2021

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And so it's one of the things people don't fully anticipate with success. Everyone wants to be successful, but you don't realize that suddenly it, well, yes, it's a nice problem to have too many things. coming at you. Maybe that sounds like an, it doesn't make it less of a problem just because it's a nice problem. Welcome back, everybody, to the skinny confidential him and her show. We have an incredible episode for you today. Second time on the show, second appearance, Greg McEwen. For those of you that are not familiar with Greg McEwen, he is an author. New York Times best selling author, may I say, public speaker, leadership and business strategists. And we love having him on the show. This episode is for anyone who's trying to figure out their life, be more productive,

be more efficient, figure out the right way to do things. And Michael is such a fan of his book that I want to put you on the spot right now and ask you what are some tips that you've learned from two of his books. I know you look to his work all the time when it comes to your own business. Like I said, this is his second appearance on the show. The first one was in September of 2019, I believe. It was episode 217, How to Master Essentialism. And I highly recommend that either you go back and listen. It doesn't matter which order you listen to these. You can go listen to this one first, that one first, whatever. But I recommend listening to both and definitely checking out his book Essentialism. It's one of the best productivity books that I've ever read. It really helps you get through

the noise, chop through all the stuff that's not essential and actually focus on what is essential. So think of it as a productivity book, but on steroids to help you really refine and define what are the essential items in your life. Is your wife essential? Of course my wife's essential. Of course. How essential on your list? I mean, you're like number six. I'm just kidding. Number one. Number one. That's a good answer. Anyways, enough about us. This is about Greg and his new book. He's got a new book called Effortless, make it easier to do what matters most.

It's an instant New York Times bestseller. This conversation, again, goes all over the place. But it's really about productivity, how to be efficient, how to define what's important, how to really, like, channel what you should be working on in your life and how to cut out some of the noise. With that, Greg McEwen, welcome back for the second time to the Skinny Confidential Him and Her show. This is the Skinny Confidential, Him and Her. So we were talking earlier off air about how when you write a second book, we both believe, I think, that it should be better than the first one, which is hard to top your first one, essentialism. That is such an incredible tool, but I feel like you did.

Oh, well, that's a very nice way to begin the conversation. What I was saying, and I still reiterate, is that my mantra was just don't write a rubbish book. Just like, don't do the stuff that makes it hard to read. don't do the stuff that actually a lot of authors fall into, which is they write a book too long, they didn't really understand, they didn't have enough time to get it right the second time. They've been spending years preparing for the first one,

and then there's a rush to do the second one. And so my whole thing was like, just don't do that. It reminds me I just had Matthew McConaughey on the Wattson Central podcast, and he was talking about this with his Hollywood career, that he wasn't sure how to be exceptionally successful, but he definitely wanted to avoid the big mistakes that he saw other actors make. Such as?

Well, first of all, I mean, he was getting pigeonholed in rom-com-type shows. And so instead of just carrying that journey down as a sort of a race to the bottom, he took off for a year or two. He just said, look, I don't know what I want, but I do know what I don't want. I don't want to just become irrelevant because I've followed this one path of success to failure. And so just even having that, I think, is quite a good recipe for success,

is just don't do the stuff that's really going to mess you up so that you can be consistent over time. It doesn't sound exciting. It doesn't sound like how to become very successful. Just be consistent and don't be rubbish. But actually, I think it is. No, I think it is too. And we were just talking a little bit off air. So many people like that, and I don't think it's bad to have goals. Like you're moonshine. Like I want to be the greatest at whatever you're doing. But I think the reverse of that is just saying like I don't want to drop below the bar that I've already set. You know, you'd want to be incrementally better each day or at least like hold yourself to a certain standard that you've already achieved. Right. Like people don't talk about that. But again, like if you're compounding the interest just like you would investing, like that shit adds up. Well, podcasting comes to mind. Someone was just sharing this with me. me, they've done 400 podcasts like you both have. And he said that he'd read that 90% of people that starts a podcast quit by the third podcast. And of the 10% remaining, another 90% quit by

episode 21. So it's... And the rest quit by episode 100. I'll give you another start. It reminds me of that graphic of success of the guy that's chipping away. He's chipping away, chipping away at the mountain. And right before he's about to get the diamond, he turns around. I'll give you like another step because I get a kind of like I guess now I get a unique perspective running dear media is I get to see like new podcasts, existing podcast, aspiring podcasts come through this door. And the first thing I always tell people is if you're doing this to make money right away, don't. Don't. And I probably don't want to work with you. But second, you need to do this for a full year consistently every week. Because from what I've seen and what the data that like, you know, we get so much data here now because we have 100 shows or so. And you get a, I get a. I get a. I get a. I get a. see like what happens when people kind of quit at that earmark or I'll get the message. We'll be like, hey, I'm actually going to switch to seasonal or take a hiatus. I'm like, nope, you're right at the tipping point and you're quitting right before because you haven't got that instant gratification. And if you think about it as a writer or entertainer,

like a year to achieve greatness and make a living is really not that long. It's just we've gotten used to this thing. It's like it needs to be right away. But a year, like if I told you, you're starting out as a writer and you only need to spend one year and after you, you might be I guarantee you your success horizon was much further than a year out, right? Yeah, that's absolutely true. I mean, as of now, it's a 20-year journey in writing. And I still feel like I'm definitely feel like I'm learning. I definitely feel like I want to improve my trade, understand the process better.

I mean, all of that's true. So it's definitely a long-term pursuit. With the podcast, when the What's Essential podcast, just before it hit the year mark, that's when it became top five on self-improvement on iTunes. That's when it was in what, top number six or seven on education. You start getting that exponential growth, right? You start to people start to see it. It takes that time. I think it does. I think you're trying to learn. And so if you put these two together, so even though I had the mantra, don't be rubbish, actually in the book, I have a principle which is have the courage to be

rubbish. But these aren't contradictory. The whole idea is have the courage to be rubbish when you start. just begin. You're going to, don't try to expect perfection and have all the results right now, be willing to begin have what I call zero drafts. Like in writing, you write a zero draft, it's so bad. No one will ever see it but you, but you began. And then have a journey where you say, look, I'm in this for the long run. And if I can stay in the long run, you can get better and better and you can build a reputation and you can then, at some point, there's a tipping point. That's when all the media pays attention. So then, they tell the wrong story because everybody else suddenly, oh, overnight success. I remember interviewing

one of, I'm trying to catch his name again, he was the marketing genius behind the seven habits of highly effective people. And he said to me, this was 20 years ago, he said it, he said, we worked night and day for three years to make the seven habits an overnight success. No one paid attention for the three years. It gets to a tipping point. And everyone says, oh, phenomenon, overnight, unbelievable. Yeah, that's what it takes. And you know what they were doing? It's interesting because it parallels with podcasting too and, of course, directly with books.

But he said that he had Stephen on every small magazine, like, interview, all these tiny, you know. Previous to when it was the overnight success, like during that three years. All throughout three years. He was just every day going in being interviewed by tiny magazines that no one had ever heard of, but that small community had. And eventually it felt to people, oh, I'm hearing about this everywhere. Everywhere I read in the magazine,

I've seen an interview, I hear about it. It's become part of eventually a part of Americana. So there's a lot to be said. There's an enormous value in being able to go small, but be consistent if you want to have breakthroughs. I think the problem is that people see the big stuff and they think that's where they need to start. You see it all the time in companies that are marketing a new product,

right. They got to be in every commercial and every interview and every this and that. And they spend all this money, but they haven't done the little things that they haven't reached those tiny communities that are going to be their champions, right? They just don't because they just don't. That's not the stuff that's fancy. That's not the stuff that gets it like what they think is attention. But that's really the stuff that helps build brand or marketing or book or whatever. Selfishly, I in my career, I've blogged for 12 years. And I said yes to everything like what you're referring to. Every tiny little magazine feature, a sixth grade project. of someone who wanted to interview me, I said, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. And then I got to a point, which is why your first book was so helpful for me, where it was like, I can't continue to say yes, I actually have to say no. For sure. And something shifted. And I started really, really practicing essentialism. Do you think when you're starting out your career, like say someone's starting out their career and they're listening, that they should practice essentialism? Or do you think they should say yes to everything. Let's clarify. So essentialism can be applied at any level of success, but you apply it differently. Would love to hear more about that. Well, so the first practice of

essentialism is to explore. It's to, so you're trying things. You're trying many, many things. Then you have the courage to eliminate the things that aren't working, and then you build systems to make execution as easy as possible. So those are the three steps of essentialism. Explore, eliminate, and execute. In the earliest in someone's career, I would advocate, try lots of things, go really broad, try and explore, but don't commit to everything for a long time. You try it, you test it, you put it aside looking for the things that really speak to you. And then all through your career, it's that same cycle. It's that ongoing cycle. So even at first, I'm willing to write anything just about in any publication. I go back 20 years. I'm just, just yes to anything,

because you get some experience and you get going and I'm not good at what I'm doing, but you get a foot in the door and you build up. As you continue in your success, you have to become more selective. Otherwise, you'll plateau simply because exactly the way that you were just describing that you have so many things on your calendar, so many things on your plate, it consumes you and your ability to even dream of what the next level is weakened because you don't have time to even think, even dream, even imagine. And so it's the ongoing disciplined pursuit of what's essential. And that cycle is the important missing part of the story. What's also essential to, and I'm sure I'm sure you agree with this as a writer, is creative time and thinking time.

I think sometimes we get on this roller coaster where, for me, my team will text me like so many text messages in the morning and there's so many emails and it's like it's so easy to get on that roller coaster. You almost have to say, no, you guys, this is blocked out. For me, it's my foot spa. I have a hole in the wall, foot spa where I go and be creative, where you like block out the time on your calendar and say no. Yes, I think that the key is, I mean, this is interesting.

So I was under contract to write effortless and no particular urgency on deadline, but I was working on it pretty steadily, but not making very much progress with it until the pandemic. And every day that I worked on the book in the pandemic, I just laughed at myself. I was like, what was your plan, Greg? Like, where were you going to find this amount of uninterrupted space in the life that you had designed in the travel that was particularly travel? And so it is an interesting challenge as you become more successful. The space to think is under attack. And so it's one of the things people don't fully anticipate with success. Everyone wants to be successful, but you don't realize that suddenly, yes, it's a nice problem to have too many things coming at you. Maybe that sounds like it doesn't make it less of a problem just because it's a nice problem.

No, it's been, like say you're somebody that's scaling a business. So in the beginning when you're starting that business, you're putting a ton of thought into the strategy and execution of beginning that business, right? And then let's say you get to the stage where the business starts to scale and you have more people and you have more things. You have more inbound. What you don't realize is that your calendar gets inundated with all of these kind of like tasks or followups or to dos that you have to do to keep scaling the business. But you forget that what made the business get to that point is all the strategy in planning that. that took place in the beginning. And so, like, in my own life, I've had to actually step back and be like, okay, I actually need to restructure either the way the management team is set up

or production team, whatever, so that I can get back some of that time. Because I'm like, for me, I'm not doing a service to anyone if we're not actually strategizing in thinking and planning. You're just kind of doing, doing, doing. And that's great to a degree. But if there's not thought behind all that action, you end up getting off the rails, right? So if you've been listen to this show for a long time or even just jumping in recently. One of the themes of the show, if not the main theme, is to constantly look at ways we can better ourselves, which is why we've been partnered with one of our favorite platforms for so long. And that platform is Skillshare. For those of you that do not know what Skillshare is, Skillshare is an online learning community that

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Well, my favorite one for people to start with is by one of our friends, Greg McEwen, who actually just came on this show for the second time and who's been on before he wrote the book Essentialism. And he has a course called Simple Productivity, How to Accomplish More With Less We All To Be More We All To Be More To Make Make One With With With Skillshare. This is a great one to jump into on Skillshare. Greg does an amazing job going through it. annual subscription, it's less than $10 a month. I'm a huge fan of being stimulated mentally and you can do that with Skillshare. It's so affordable. I'm telling you, check it out. Explore your creativity at Skillshare.com slash TSC. You get a one month free trial of premium membership. That's one month of a premium membership at Skillshare.com slash TSC. Slide into my DMs and let me know what you think. A friend of mine put it this way, they said, oh, Greg, I'm just too busy living to think about life. What? Yeah. And I thought it was just a great one-liner for the ages of like what not to do. And it's the same, of course, as an entrepreneur. It's like I'm too busy running my business to think about my business. And so that balance, that dynamic equilibrium is so important is that you create space. You actually have to create space in order to think. It doesn't happen anymore. And it's not just for an entrepreneur who becomes successful. It's almost universally true now because all of us, even if we don't feel it, a living in a time of such unbelievable success.

So this is true for almost everybody listening to this, that they have more options, more things they could do than they could possibly have time for. Anyone who has a smartphone, anyone who's listening to this, they're literate. This is, we live in an age in a period of the earth that's so, that's so successful compared to any period before. And so it means that we all are overwhelmed with too many possibilities. We're all distracted. We all struggle to have space to think. And we don't make it easy on ourselves because we, you know, I was working with a Steve Harvey show and worked with one of the people from his audience.

And I went to her home and we're doing this whole shoot. And we go to a bedroom and I'm like, okay, where do you put your phone? And she said, well, actually, I keep it under my pillow. Oof, yikes. So she would wake up in the middle of the night. night if someone texted or emailed her, respond and go back to that. Right. Now, the thing is, and now both of you responded just exactly like everybody responds when I share that story, which is that it's not wrong, but it's like, it's a, I shouldn't say this.

It's wrong. It's just like that stresses me the fuck out hearing that. But what it is too, I don't mean YouTube, but like I worry that some of us are a little self-righteous about it because where do we keep our phones? You know, like for a lot of people, they keep it. Oh, no, no, I'm fully healthy. It's a full 10 inches from my head at night. Let's get off our high horse. So all I'm saying is that for a lot of people, it's the last thing they do at night. It's the first thing they do in the morning. Any moment they used to be bored when they had to think, they're at an airport,

planes late. They get a moment to think. No one gets to think. No one thinks. They just are suddenly, you know, they're on Instagram. I want to stay on this one second, though, because about being self-righteous. Because some of the flak sometimes that we get when we're on this topic about like taking time to think and being essential and not responding to email, putting your phone.

some of the response is like, hey, I have a job, I need to be available, and I get that, I empathize. What I want to clarify to people was, there was a period of time, both in Lauren I's career, same thing. I had to be available,

how to be on call, I had to answer it. I remember of my first business. We used to get calls from like India, and I was the only person to answer because we worked with different time zones. And I was the only person that could answer the phone.

And it would ring, my phone to be right next to my head on loud, and I would jump up and like smash against the wall because I'd be so delirious. And I'd be like, Jetbed, this is Michael. hello, hello, and I would act like I was awake in this call. So, like, I get that period. But the point is, is like, if you're thoughtful and you do the things in the beginning and the start of your

career, then you work towards having a little bit more autonomy, and then it's time to think. But in the beginning and why I love your book Essentialism so much, people should go back and listen to the first time. I didn't mention that you were here, this is the second time, is that you can apply essentialism throughout your career. And I think highlighting that is important. And the idea is that you're constantly progressing and moving up the chain and doing what's essential so that you can continue to progress, right? It's not so that for me, and tell me if I'm wrong, essentialism is not so that you can stay in the same place always, right? It's so that you continue to do what's essential so that you continue to move up the chain or progress or be more successful or whatever.

Whatever level of success a person is at right now, they will tend to plateau at that level unless they become a little more selective. Yes. And you just, you don't want to become too selective, too fast either. There's a dance and some self-awareness and some wisdom in this. And we're not saying like turn off your phone and don't respond to your boss. Right. So exactly.

You could take this to an extreme that would be unhelpful. But what you want to do is keep on adjusting and saying, okay, do I have enough space to be able to think about what to do next. Do I have enough space to identify today what really matters most? what's essential. And if you don't, well, that's fine, but I'll tell you what's going to happen predictably is you're going to plateau. Yes, that's what I want to do to, that's exactly what I like was hoping to hear because what I think we try to get out is like I empathize with every stage of every individual's career, but I want people to keep moving forward in their career and to do that to your point. You have to start being selective at some point or else you just end up doing the same

thing. And that's how like, no offense anybody listening, you end up in that dead end job 30 years hating what you do, not enjoying life because you're doing the same thing over and over and over again. I remember it was a compliment that was being paid, but it was a review of essentialism online where somebody wrote, essentialism really found it impactful. I wish I'd read this book 50 years ago. And I found that heartbreaking in a way to hear that because you don't get the 50 years back. But I think that similarly, I want to introduce the ideas that I'm writing about at the youngest possible age. I mean, with my own children, I've been introducing it very, very young. And it means that they have had, you know, well, when I travel, 80% at the time I travel,

I'll bring one of my children with me so they get to hear these ideas again and again and participate in them. And it's allowed them, I think, to feel empowered. I was trying to persuade my daughter to read a book one day. And she reads endlessly. So it's not like she does not interest in that. But she was pushing back and then I went back to my office and she slipped a note under my door and the note that she had written, she said, I've already expressed my unwillingness to read this book, but I would like to make a counteroffer. I can't read it all in one day to day, but perhaps I could read it over a period of time. It would be okay to read it over a period of time or instead of another piece of work. I'm sure that can be made possible. How old is she and does she need a

job? Yeah. She was 14 at the time. She wrote that. And I loved it. I mean, I rejoice in that moment because that's that's an essentialist is someone who recognizes that every choice is a trade-off every time you say yes you're saying no to something and i was like this of let's say typical manager in this moment i've got the shiny new object hey here's this book this'll be good for you i'm not wrong but i'm not aware of what she's already doing and what the trade-off is and so what what i would say to people is really there's three levels one take responsibility just like eve did in this story for prioritizing your own day. You at least need to take responsibility for that. Answer the question every day. What is my priority today? Of course, you'll do more than one thing,

but if you don't know what your priority is, then you will not get that done in most instances. Other things will come in. If you don't prioritize your life, someone else will. Number two is that you need to advocate for that. So you initiate the conversation. Again, same with Eve, like she was using language that was perfectly polite and reasonable to point out to me. If I say yes to this, I'm saying no to that. That makes me responsible. Suddenly I think, well, do I really want her to do this instead of this homework that she's already been thoughtful about? No, I don't. You know, I'll step away from this. The third thing is as leaders, if we have any influence with someone else, we need to make it safe for people to have a prioritization conversation.

So we can say to someone, for example, I didn't with Eve, but it would have been better if I had. By me asking you to do this, what are you saying no to so that you can actually have a dialogue about it? One of the strangest things, I mean, I'm 10 years on from when I first was teaching about essentialism professionally. I suddenly, it's occurred to me the most obvious thing in the whole world, which is that nobody inside of corporations are having prioritization conversations. It's like actually so obvious, it's breathtakingly bad that's taken me this long to really understand this. He should talk to your team at Dear Media. I'd be happy to have you come talk to your media. That's a really, really smart advice.

That'd be fun. We should do it. The people in the organizations aren't having the conversation of what's important. They really, it's seriously not happening. And that's the news. It's not like, well, 10% of the days people talk about it. No. If they talk about it at all, and even this is not that common, but it might be in an annual offsite

where someone says, okay, well, here's the strategy. Here are the big yeses. and here's what we're not going to do. Maybe. Maybe they do it quarterly. If they're really, really on it about it, maybe that's happening. But the day-to-day where the real prioritization takes place, because it's the day-to-day trade-offs where your actual strategy is being formulated, not your stated strategy, it doesn't happen at all. Think of how odd that is. What a curious case of the non-existent prioritization conversations. I think managers, upper management, executives, everyone gets stuck in the day-to-day, myself included sometimes, right? Like, I'm not, like, I think that

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He said one day one of the executives came in and he's like, I want to throw this book across the room, which I love that part of his experience because I'm like, yeah, they got it. You're having to face the reality of tradeoffs. And what you normally do in life is pretend there are none. And you just try and do it all. Well, what happened is that as they introduced this language, it started to dawn on them that if essentialism is true, they should be able to do the same or maybe even more, but the same in less time. They said, okay, we're going to have an experiment, a four-day work week. And they brought in someone from outside who gathered data for them about what their output was. They had six weeks of trying to do a four-day work week, got the data again, then another six weeks.

So it's a three-month experiment. At the end of it, they concluded. categorically with the data that they were now producing in 32 hours what they used to produce in 40 hours. What was the price? So they've moved officially in a four-day work week company. What was the price? The price was what we're talking about was actually each person getting clear what was essential themselves, taking the time to do that, then having the conversation. So even as the CEO, he makes it safe now. He'll go to someone and if he's assigning something, he'll say, okay, here's what I think you need to do today. This is the new opportunity. or there's a problem what we've got with a client.

Here's the thing. But what are you working on? What's your priority right now? He said about 40% of the time they'll conclude, yeah, that what he is bringing to them is more important. Circumstances have changed. This is the thing that should be done. But 60% of the time, he walks away going,

no, what you're doing is better. It's more important. You carry on with it. That's the missing conversation. I think that's an extremely important conversation, not just in business, but in your personal life as well and with your partner. Right. Like I think that you can get in the same thing with parents and kids and family and all sorts. Like we had a we had a completely failed week when I'm going to tell this story. You might not like it. But a completely failed. We were not doing. We were not practicing essentialism about three or four weeks ago. We had to fly into town from Texas. We landed in San Diego. Went to weddings and babies and baby. Went to weddings and baby. And we drove up to LA and keep in mind this with a baby.

Yeah. Work and podcasts and dinner meetings and social dinners and this and then went back and did like another wedding thing. I came home on that Sunday. No, this, it took us two weeks to recover. I couldn't even move. I couldn't even text my dad, a legitimate text on Father's Day. You were burned out. I was done. We were trying to blend all the personal stuff with all the business stuff, with all the fun stuff, and do it all and cram everybody in.

And it left us feeling completely exhausted. It left family and friends feeling like, hey, do they just like pencil us into their busy schedule? It left our business partners being like, same feeling. And what I realized, I was like, to your point, whatever you say yes, too. You're saying no to something else. What do you say no? There's tradeoffs and we didn't and we tried to do it all. And I told Lauren after that, I'm like, we are not doing that again. We're going to we're going to disappoint some people. But at the end of the day, like, we performed at like a four across all of these things because we were just two spread then. I would love, this is off a little

tangent more about your thinking time and your calendar. I know if I see Michael thinking or sitting twiddling his thumbs, but immediately take it as an opportunity to be like, why aren't you giving me a attention. Anytime Michael's thinking, I'm like, what are you doing? I'm like, with fucking binoculars hanging off the ceiling, like with a magnifying glass. But I would love to know how you structure your day and if thinking time and creative time and writing time is on every day. Like, what does Monday through Friday look like for you? Yeah, I wish my wife Anna were here right now because it would keep me honest and it would be entertaining too. I mean, there's all sorts of things. I mean, we've got a lot wrong in our journey, but some of the things that we found helpful. One came out of necessity

and it was to create a done for the day list. So that instead of making a to-do list, which most overachievers do, that gets longer by the end of the day than it is at the beginning. And that becomes your decision-making tool so that you basically get to the end of every day. You haven't stopped, but you still feel unsatisfied because look at all I didn't get done. Well, this is like a, this is, this is how shall I say, a loser's game because it will extrapolate that forward for a year, for two years, 10 years, you're going to be more and more overwhelmed and more and more frustrated, even though you've actually achieving more and more. So you're not going to win well at this game. The done for the day list says, okay, when you're doing your planning each day, which again,

lots of people are just not doing that. But if you do it, one of the one of the little patterns I like is just a list of six. Three personal things, three business things. Each of them, they're important. They don't have to be big, but they're important. And if I get those things done, then I can be satisfied with the day. Then you can be done. And the idea of having both a done for the day list, or then what has been helpful to me, especially through COVID, a done for the time, I chose five o'clock, which might be early for some people. For me, with four children, with wife, it felt like if I went later getting dinner sorted and getting people there, I'm more tired, everyone gets grumpier.

You know, your last act of the day, the third of the day starts to be not great. So my accountability was I would walk out of the office and like literally, it's five o'clock, you know, like a town crier. It's 502, whatever time it was, to give me an excuse. to actually be done at a set time. A lot of people in the pandemic is a Zoom, eat, sleep, repeat world where it's 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 o'clock at night.

It keeps just going. There's no natural end. There's no boundary. And you can't even tell what day it is. And it's definitely changed that Saturdays and Sundays are now just people still email and they still expect responses in a way that pre-pandemic,

I think people still saw a distinction. And so we're just living now in this completely boundary. world, and it's not great for high performance. It's not great for satisfied life. It's not great for great relationships. It's like counter all of those things because we're rhythmic beings. So having boundaries, and I've offered two, a done for the day list is a boundary. A time to be done is a boundary. And now also Anna and I will use language which will say, okay, are you doing sneaky work? You know, no sneaky work. Meaning like you're working when you're supposed to be done.

Yeah. When we say, when we go, we go sit in the... I'm doing a lot of sneaky work. work, Greg. I've got to be, I'm getting the death here. I'm doing a lot of sneaky work. You are getting the death. I saw that. I want to know how, how you use. So anyways, on to the next. No. I want to know how you use essentialism and effortless in your personal relationship with your wife. Well, let's talk about effortless. Please, please. No, no, no, no, no. He just tried to change a subject again. No, no. I want to know how you use it in your relationships. I'm sure other people want to know your personal marriage. Yes. Again, we need Anna. She can keep the honest. But things that we do. Okay. So today, we went on a walk together.

There were times we were doing that almost literally every day through the pandemic. This week we've done quite a lot. I think almost every day we've gone. We've only done about a half hour walk together. But that is really valuable time. It was a little tricky at first. We weren't sure what to talk about exactly. We had loads to talk about.

But some days didn't go super well, right? I mean, marriage is always a highly vulnerable emotional experience because any small thing can set off unresolved issues from the past. It's a bit of a landmine type experience, but we stayed with it, and it helped us to get more in sync through just literally walking together. You're actually in sync physically. Have you seen that movie 1917 where they're running through like in World War I

the field? That's how I feel in the conversation with Lauren. I'm like, This motherfucker will bring up work. And I'm like, can we just enjoy the birds and the trees and the smooth jazz that I've put on my Spotify playlist? Let's be self-aware here. We both do this at different times. And I think that's the difficulty in relationship is especially when you're in a marriage.

Because in a marriage, you're talking about everything. Like, you know, you're talking about work. You're talking about the kids. You're talking about personal stuff. You're talking about intimacy. You're talking about everything. Everything. And the question is like with boundaries again, when are we all align that we're talking about this?

subject and when. Like, because Lauren, sometimes Lauren will talk about business. I'm like, I don't want to talk to business or sometimes I will or sometimes I'm talking about the kid. Like, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's this back and forth. We're going to Vegas tomorrow. And if you bring up business, I'm just warning you in front of everyone on the mic. If you bring up business, I'm going to lay in the street. We're doing a little mom, dad, get away from the kid. You're going to lay in the street. I'm going to lay in the street. That's going to be my top essential thing to do if he brings up business. Would you literally lay in the street? I will do anything for shock value for him. Lauren, that sounds like it would be harder for you, right?

One time he pissed me off and I considered taking his hairbrush that he's obsessed with, laying it in the street, getting all the little pieces and sprinkling it on his pillow. I was like, don't you fucking dare you get that divorce paper faster than you. Okay, but listen, I want to, so obviously second time, I think everybody should go back to the first time he came on. We really dive into your first book Essentialism, which we love. I told you, we talk about it all the time, which we talk about Skillshare. Here, Skillshare, here's a free one for you. We talk about Skillshare all the time and then your course on there.

And I said, it's a great place for people to start. but I do highly recommend your book. It's been vastly helpful in both Lauren and I's life. The second one, effortless. I feel like I need to figure this one out. Let's talk about it. And let's talk about the distinction between the two. It doesn't matter where you start. Does it matter? Do you prefer people start with essentialism or you can jump into either one? The Olive and June Manny system saved my life recently. I just got off a huge flight to France and I had to go straight to my sister's wedding in San Diego and my nails were chipped. They were screwed up and I needed something fast. So with the manny system, you get the most beautiful manicure. I carry this all the time

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In both instances, what the overlap is, is that I'm an advocate for not just trying to do more and push harder and put in more effort to achieve something. It's in both books, I'm advocating that you take that effort that you have, that limited valuable asset of effort and make sure you get a good return on your effort, a good ROE. And how you use your effort really matters. It sounds like such an obvious thing to do you have to really point out to overachievers that they have to be careful how they use their effort? Yes, that's what I've found. Because a lot of insecure overachievers try to solve every problem by putting in more effort. Now, it's a perfectly sensible strategy, especially if you're not putting in any effort to put in more effort. With my children, I am teaching them the value of effort. Take initiative, do something. You can make incredible things happen by putting an effort. The book isn't to people who aren't putting an effort. The book is written to people who are highly engaged, putting an effort, but they're running out of space. So that group of people, they want 10x results. The people listening to this, they want 10x results.

You, me, we all here want 10x results or more. Can anyone listening to this, can anyone sitting here in this studio work 10 times harder? That's why you have a book called Effortless. That's the justification for it, is that you don't want to just push harder because actually all you'll do, you won't get better results past a certain point. You'll get worse results. You want to instead say, let's not work harder to get better results. Let's find a more effortless way to achieve better results. Yeah, I work with a lot of different people, and I always, I say to not nearly as eloquent or professional way as you, but I was like, I always say working hard for the bees, right? Like, it's every, like bees work hard, right? Everyone can work hard. Like that, I think that's the first barrier to entries. Like, that's the given. Like you're going to work hard, right? You have to put out to your point, the effort to get the results you want. And if you're somebody's like, I don't want to put the effort, then I think we can all say you're not going to get results. Right. Right. You have to do that. But this whole concept of like working smarter or not harder is a real thing, right? Like you got to, you have to make sure that that effort is getting. you the results you want because just working hard on something doesn't necessarily guarantee or mean that you're going to find the success you're looking for, right? And it's like, I think we can all think of people in our life that just bust their fucking ass every day. And

they're just like, go, go, go. But they never quite make it to that point they're trying to get to. And it's probably because they're not strategizing. They're not thinking. They're not taking that effort and saying, is it extrapolating the rewards that I'm actually looking for? And I think we've been, especially with the hustle culture, we've all been. Like hustle, hustle, hustle. And there's a lot of these characters that are running around saying hustle, hustle, hustle. They need to caveat that with, hey, you got to do the smart thing too, right? What do you think out of your book are three little tiny tips that you can leave our audience with that maybe we'll want them to read more? I think if there were three things, I would say number one is to declutter your mind.

Our minds are just full of all sorts of unhelpful stuff. I'll give a specific example of something to declutter. And that is a belief, an assumption. And this is the assumption and a lot of overachievers hold it without knowing they hold it. And what they believe is that easy equals lazy. And it doesn't, like you can just look up in a dictionary. Lazy is not willing to put in the effort. Easy is that something doesn't require great effort to achieve it.

And so as soon as you break that idea apart, as soon as you invert it and say, well, no, easy does not equal lazy. Easy is just better and smarter. you can open up a tremendous set of possibilities for entrepreneurs or for people just trying to get better results. You start to go, well, it doesn't have to be, not everything has to be so hard all the time. I can look for an easier path. And in fact, that is a concrete question people can ask, is just how can this thing be effortless? Just that, it sounds so simple. It maybe sounds too simple, too easy. But that is a game-changing question. I was coaching somebody, who's the kind of person who's up till 4 a.m. in the morning photoshopping for the youth activity

the next day at church. Like, no one's expecting that of her but herself. She is putting this pressure on because she wants better results and she assumes that's the way to achieve it. I said to her, look, next time you take on a project, ask the question, how can this be effortless? She works at a university. Professor calls her up just the next day. Hey, I need you to video my class. Now, that's all he asked for, and she just jumped into this overachiever, over-complicating, over-engineering mindset. So she's thinking, well, we're going to have multiple camera angles. Then we'll edit them all together.

I'll get a whole videography team involved. We'll have intros, outros, music, graphics, slides. I'm going to wow him. And he didn't ask for any of that, but she's adding all of this stuff going a second, third mile when he didn't. Well, she's been coached now. she remembers, okay, I'm going to, how can I make this effortless? So she asks a few questions, and it turns out that this is really for one student who's going to miss the class, a few of the

classes for an athletic commitment. Oh, this guy was about to get like a whole cinema production. Get a cinema production. The solution they came up with on the phone, another student in class would just record it on their iPhone and send it to the student that's missing it whenever he misses. That's it. That's the solution. The professor hadn't thought about that. He was over-complicating it, two, he's delighted with that solution. Oh, yeah, that's obviously, let's do that. She hangs up. It's been a 10-minute phone call. She saved four months of her own time and an entire team's worth of effort. That's the power of inverting. So that's one practical thing people can do, literally of the next task you are going to take on, ask, how can it be effortless?

And watch it happen. You can start with small things. I was looking around my office the other day, and I'm like, there's a printer on the floor. It's been there two weeks, right? Like, we've got a new printer, this printer still works, what do I do with it? So every time I look at it, I go, well, do I give it away, do I sell it? Do I throw it away? Do I throw it away? Do I have to find a recycle center? And that's enough cognitive work that I'm like, oh, forget it. I move on to something else. That's how it's there two weeks? Well, I could stay two months, two years, right? Like, I haven't solved it. And then I say, okay, how can it be effortless? I look up and there's like some workers down the road and I'm like, oh, maybe they would, maybe they want it.

So I go out and ask them, I got this printer, do you want it? Yes, give it to him. Within two minutes of asking the question the problem solved. And it's done. And it's off and it's over. And it's like seriously, there is so much like this. We're just pre-programmed to a sort of, a sort of, yeah, if it's not hard, it can't be the right path.

Maybe you can apply the printer theory to your entire man cave because there's so much shit on the floor. That's just. Speaking of man cave and speaking of effortless, one thing, I told, I have to kill Taylor if he ever leaves as a producer. He's got too many, too many.

He's got too much information back there. He's seen Lorne and I lose our shit on each other too many times on this show. Yeah. But specifically, you need a good NDA here. Yeah, when we do the intros, outros and the pickups, pickups being the advertisement for the show. So we typically don't do those in studio. You know, we jump in with you right away.

We do that later. And we batch a lot of our stuff because we have other stuff going on. So we try to like get into a studio and do all that stuff in a window of time where it's like, I can do the interview, but later we can do, you know, it's just switching the mind. We used to get in so many fights back and forth with, when we're doing the ads, how we're setting up the quick, we have doing the house, isn't that? So recently

in the man cave, I just set up these mics. They're there permanently. I hit record. We have not been in one fight since. All this stuff has turned in way in advance. We're way more productive. But just to point out to like this effortless solution that actually extrapolates into a better life, we're fighting less, we're more productive.

We have this stuff done. It's less stress. I'll pick something else to fight about. That translates in so many other areas of our life. It does. Oh my God. I got rid of all of this weight that was causing conflict, with my wife and actually made our business better and got us way more time back. It was just a simple thing of just like setting up this thing and making it effortless. I agree with this next question so much. I hope anyone who's on my team is listening to this. The importance of writing everything down

instead of relying on memory. I have ordered notebooks for everyone that I said I know I'm old fashion, but you just write it down because it makes it so much easier. What are your thoughts? Yeah, I mean, look, it's another obvious, too obvious sounding idea at first, but is that the almost almighty power of a checklist. Like the whole idea, if you want to break through to a high level of contribution, is that you need to take the current operations that are using up your mental energy and make them easy. You want to not have to think about things. If you think they're essential, you want to be able to get them done, whether. you think about them or not. And by having a checklist, you take out the cognitive strain of having to remember. I've got to remember this. I've got to remember this. We're terribly bad at remembering.

Human brain is not well designed for this. We have tremendous deep memory, right? Like we're talking like hundreds of years worth of DVR level quality video running in our brains. We got masses of that deep storage. But the ram of our brains, what we mean when we say remember something, is ridiculously small. So this is why we forget even the most obvious things. And so the answer, as you become more successful, life is becoming more complex. You're having more responsibilities. More is going on. If you have one child, that's more than no children, right? As you both know. If you have four children, that you've got more responsibility. So what you want to do is create systems that make it easier to be able to do it. So the checklist, I mean, we just did it this morning with our children.

We have two children at home right now, two are on these service missions for two weeks, building schools and cool stuff. The ones that are home, Anna and I are tired of saying, have you done this? Have you done this? Before you get on a glowing screen, you've got to do these things. It's mental strain every time we have to remember it. And we created it previously. We just hadn't printed it out again this summer. A, do this list before you even ask for a glowing screen. And just having the checklist removes 10, I don't know, it's like, that's like, that's like 90% of the strain is resolved by using a checklist. Taylor, Taylor, are you having your checklist out when you're listening to this? Okay.

Checklist is, you can do it for really everything. But what it also helps you to do, so it helps you, one, not have to think about things, but it also helps you to look at your current process. Work out is it efficient with the podcast from end to end. You can do it from the time you decide who you want to have on to the time the thing ships. Having the whole thing written out actually in a checklist will help you to not forget things, obvious things will help you to decide. Do I even want this step in the process anymore? It will help you to be able to help other people do it because you can delegate it more easily. This is the process that I want you to follow. It's a simple sounding solution, but it's a really helpful one as we grow increasingly complex.

so that we take the burden out of our minds. Yeah, no, I think, like, speaking to podcast, you know, I get this feedback, it's so hard to do. It's hard to do, well, there's a lot of things that are difficult, but it's hard when you start to tap in all the other stuff that people don't want to write down, the scheduling, the posting, the, all these things. But if you systemize that, like you said, put it in a checklist, it actually makes it easier because the main thing you need to focus on when you're doing a podcast, obviously, is this. Like, I need to be able to sit down and have a conversation with you without being so stressed out about all the other shit that goes into building this. But a lot of people just, they don't think about systemizing it. And so it becomes overwhelming and that's what you burn out. Yeah.

I mean, I think that in terms of order operations here, you want to start with the simplest possible checklist that will achieve the goal you want. Right. So you want to, you. Give us an example when it pertains to writing because I definitely want to write another book. Give me a really micro example of what you're talking about. So say I don't have a book proposal and I don't, obviously, I haven't started the

book. What are your thoughts on how you're going to structure that list? I mean, I just went through this myself again. I just signed, literally, I actually signed the contract, I think, this week for book three. And I was, it was so easy. I almost was like, did I really, did that really happen? Because the first for essentialism, I wrote this whole thing. It took me a month of graphical work.

And I really was proud of it, too. and that's what got us going. Book two, I flew to New York, we still had a meeting. I mean, what my agent sent was like a two-page document. It was way less. And this one was, it was like me, my editor, my agent on a phone call. It was, there was hardly anything to talk about. Hey, here's the idea.

This is what we want to talk about. Do you want to do it? It was so much easier. It just almost didn't, had no drama. There was no, it almost wasn't marked. It's almost funny that it's signed now. So I think you ask, so let me give you language behind this. It's don't take the existing process you followed in the past and simplify it.

Start with zero and say, can I do this in one step? Is there a one step? If it's not one step, is there two steps? I give an example of this. So this real guy's name, this is Mike Evangelist. He was part of a company that did DVD burning when DVD. DVD burning was like completely new. It cost you $35,000 to buy one of these machines.

It came with a manual that was a thousand pages long. Then the company gets purchased by Apple. And Mike and others in the team given two weeks to prepare a presentation for Steve. So they know they have to make it simpler. They understand that. And they work really seriously hard on trying to simplify their process. And they're proud of what they're about to bring to the table. They have their slides.

They're ready to go. they've got rid of so much features, so many added stuff. And they think this is so simple. He walks in, he draws a, goes on the whiteboard, he draws a rectangle. And he says, you could just drag whatever you're going to burn to this one button and the one button you click, burn. That's the app we're going to build. Oh, that makes me horny. I like love that.

That's amazing. So he's just all about efficiency and simplicity. And the key was, so Mike suddenly said he and everyone else was embarrassed about the presentation they were planning on giving. They never gave it. they're like, okay, that's not what we're going to share. What he learned was that they were starting from complexity and trying to get to simplicity. He was starting with zero. That's what I would say to you.

It's like, start from zero. You're not in the position you were when you were writing your first book or your second book. Like, start right now. What's the minimum numbers, steps? I mean, literally the contract I just signed is the same contract I signed last time with, like, three differences. The book's different. The numbers, like, there's hardly anything different. There didn't need to be.

So don't overcomplicate it. You just say what's the minimum number of steps necessary to get the result that you want? I think this applies to conversation too. Meaning I feel like people. Our friend Jackie calls it circling the drain, right? Where you're just like, especially in companies. Like, they don't need to have everything over explained. Like, just get to the point.

Your next book should be called Get to the Fucking Point. Yes. So that's interesting that you should say that because. Is that what the, no, go on, no, go on. Is that the third book? Well, it's not the title. You know, that's, that's, you know, that's. Well, no, because I.

was just listening to what you're saying. And we have all these different conversations and companies. And half the time I'm sitting there like, get to the goddamn point. And I don't ever want to disrespect and I want to interrupt. But I'm like, everybody is smart enough in these organizations to understand what we're trying to do. And if you do require further explanation, there's ways to do that. You need to get to the point right now. No, but you get I'm saying. Get to the goddamn point. I think, I think the ability to be able to get to the core of the point fast is a pretty rare skill. And it's a really real. valuable one. Especially, like if you're pitching a company or something? It just, I mean, really,

in anything you're doing, to be able to, I, I'm struggling with the language to express all of this, but that's what the writing process is for, but like accelerated understanding where you can work together to quickly get to what really is going on, to what really matters. So you don't waste time, not just in the conversational process, which is what I think you were bringing up, but even more important, the wasted cycles people spend when they work on the wrong stuff. I mean, that's incredibly expensive. If everyone's just busily working on all the wrong things when this is the real issue and everyone's talking about these other issues over here. So creating, figuring out how to be able to understand each other fast so that you can get to the real issue quickly is, I think,

a skill that's particularly relevant right now. Let's also do that with emails and text messages too because 20 page text message and 20 page email, if you're not getting to the point to an email for me, I just glaze over. Nobody reads. These long emails that get sent. No one reads it. No one reads it. Just literally two sentences will do. I tell people this all the time. I give it as coaching to leaders. I have somebody that sends very long emails and I literally am like, it's not just sent to me, it's sent to lots of people. I'm like, no one is going to read this. Seriously. It's too gnarly. I think that's a great tip.

Yeah. It sounds like anyone who is writing those long emails needs to also read both your books because that'll help. And I think he needs to talk to Dear Media. Well, we could, let's talk about that after for sure. Well, listen, Greg, I mean, we love your work, huge fans over here. I think that this audience, us personally, like everybody listening can get a huge benefit from reading both.

I'm excited to dive into effortless. I think it's an area that we can all work on. I regularly go back to essentialism. Maybe we can do a little book. giveaway. I just want to pimp out your books right now. I think that your books to me represent selling time. It gives me my time back. So it's more than just buying a book. If you want more time in your life, purchase these books. Peace of mind. Peace of mind. Learning to get to the point, can't wait to read your next book. And honestly, results, right? Like, results. That's the thing.

Like, I think there's a reason you, the reason you have an audience that you have and work with the people you do is because, like, these are results oriented people. Like, they want the results. They want to waste time. They want to get right to the root of it. And I think that's what your books do. They help frame it out. Where can everyone find you pimp yourself out? I'd recommend people just go to essentialism.com as a new initiative that we've just just barely launching out. People can go and take a 21-day essentialism challenge. A small micro sort of masterclass quality videos, but do these tiny daily things that you can do to make it easier to do the things that matter most. That's what I'd recommend. And both your books can be found on. Everywhere. Everywhere. I love it. Thank you so much for coming on.

Your Instagram handle is at Gregory McEwen. And you guys check out his books, Essentialism and Effortless. And if you haven't listened to the first podcast with Greg, definitely go back and listen to that. Thank you for coming on. It's been a pleasure. Thank you so much. Do you want to win a copy of Greg's latest book? I mean, I'm telling you, you guys are going to want this book. I have dog-eared the shit out of it and used a pink highlighter all over it. So you're going to want it. All you have to do is tell us your favorite part of this episode on my latest Instagram at Lauren Bostic. And as always, make sure you've rated and reviewed the show if it's brought you any kind of value. See you next time.