Now picture this: You grab your laptop, flip open the screen, and then … you see a beautiful photograph on your desktop and nothing else. No messages. No browser tabs. You signed out of email and chat at the end of the day yesterday, confident that if something urgent came up overnight, someone would call or text you. The silence is blissful. You’r

Margin is space. And one thing our plans and commitments almost always lack is space. Timeframes bump up against each other, deadlines overlap, accounts lack padding. We don't leave margin between projects or items in a checklist. We certainly don't make room for error. This is a recipe for overextending ourselves. But when we leave space, we have

Essentialists spend as much time as possible exploring, listening, debating, questioning, and thinking.

the choice you can make is to stop believing you’ll ever solve the challenge of busyness by cramming more in, because that just makes matters worse.