Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most

how can we maintain a steady pace when any number of unexpected crises could pop up and throw us off schedule?

Past a certain point, more effort doesn’t produce better performance. It sabotages our performance.

Essentialism was about doing the right things; Effortless is about doing them in the right way.

When you simply can’t try any harder, it’s time to find a different path.

Margaret Atwood,

When you go slow, things are smoother. You have time to observe, to plan, to coordinate efforts. But go too slow and you may get stuck or lose your momentum.

As Lisa Jewell, author of some eighteen bestselling novels, put it, “Pace yourself. If you write too much, too quickly, you’ll go off at tangents and lose your way and if you write infrequently you’ll lose your momentum. A thousand words a day is a good ticking over amount.”

Being asked to do X isn’t a good enough reason to do Y.

Henry David Thoreau once wrote, “There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.”