Tag: Essentialism

  • Daily Gleanings (30 April 2019)

    In episode 173 of the Minimalists’ podcast, the Minimalists discuss digital clutter with Cal Newport based on his new book, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World (Portfolio, 2019). The discussion focuses a good deal on the negative impact of social media on our ability to focus on the work and relationships…

  • Daily Gleanings (17 April 2019)

    From Greg McKeown via Twitter: “Sometimes what you don’t do is just as important as what you do.” The extent to which we allow our attention to be drawn off from where it really should be is the extent to which we also become less effective in that area. INTF has announced that a new…

  • Are You Free to Focus? (Part 2: Stopping)

    This post is the second part of the review of some of the highlights of Michael Hyatt’s book Free to Focus. If you missed this introduction, be sure to go back to read it for the context it provides on what we’re discussing this week. Hyatt divides his advice in Free to Focus into three…

  • Daily Gleanings (8 April 2019)

    Charles Quarles’s Theology of Matthew: Jesus Revealed as Deliverer, King, and Incarnate Creator (P&R, 2013) is available this month for free from Logos Bible Software. Matt D’Avella hosts a short (< 9 min) video with Greg McKeown that introduces some of the key lines of thinking around essentialism. For additional discussion, see previous posts about…

  • A Conversation about Essentials

    Some time ago, Michele Cushatt, Michael Hyatt, and Greg McKeown sat down to discuss “essentialism,” or “the disciplined pursuit of less but better.” Unfortunately, the discussion recording has now been taken down. More thoughts from Greg along these lines are available in his book Essentialism. But there were two points in particular that stood out…

  • Inside “Yes” is “No”

    Inside “Yes” is “No”

    We like to be able to say “yes,” whether it’s to a person, an organization, an activity, an object, or whatever.1 But human experience works out such that inside any “yes” is also a “no.” A bias toward “yes” isn’t inherently bad. It keeps us moving forward. Where we start running into trouble is when…