#greg-mckeown — Public Fediverse posts

Take a deep breath. Get present in the moment and ask yourself what is important this very second.

— Greg McKeown

#Stoic #Stoicism #GregMcKeown

Take a deep breath. Get present in the moment and ask yourself what is important this very second.

— Greg McKeown

#Stoic #Stoicism #GregMcKeown

Creativerly 226 is out featuring

Tools: #Spacedrive, #Webstudio, and fresh updates and news from #Coda (AI Integration), #Uizard (Autodesigner), and #DETA (New website and docs).

Articles: #GregMcKeown (#HarvardBusinessReview), #MorganHousel (#CollaborativeFund), #MarkManson, #JuddAntin

Read the whole issue here: https://creativerly.com/a-file-explorer-from-the-future/

We Begin Again
You always have two options.You can push harder.You can remove friction.— Greg McKeown

We all know where we should push harder in our lives to reach personal goals. We also ought to think more about elimination. Shedding ourselves of artificial expectations and dreams
https://alexandersmap.com/2023/01/01/we-begin-again/
#PersonalGrowth #Fitness #Habits #Learning #Lifestyle #Poetry #Productivity #goals #GregMcKeown #Habits #Leuchtturm1917 #Lineperdayjournal #MaryOliver

What’s important today? #gregmckeown

What’s important today? #gregmckeown

Poiesis

Aristotle talked about three kinds of work, whereas in our modern world we tend to emphasize only two. The first is theoretical work, for which the end goal is truth. The second is practical work, where the objective is action. But there is a third: It is poietical work. The philosopher Martin Heidegger described poiesis as a “bringing-forth.” This third type of work is the Essentialist way of approaching execution: An Essentialist produces more—brings forth more—by removing more instead of doing more.

~ Greg McKeown

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Trade-offs

When we try to do it all and have it all, we find ourselves making trade-offs at the margins that we would never take on as our intentional strategy. When we don’t purposefully and deliberately choose where to focus our energies and time, other people—our bosses, our colleagues, our clients, and even our families—will choose for us, and before long we’ll have lost sight of everything that is meaningful and important.

~ Greg McKeown

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In the last year, I’ve been regularly returning to my personal mission. It’s a blazing beacon on the horizon. Every time I am aware that I should make a choice, I can honestly say this choice right here is in service of my mission. (The corollary of course is that those times when I’m not aware that I’m making a choice, my mission doesn’t help me at all.)

And I do literally mean all the things are in service of my mission. My choices about my commitments to people, family responsibilities, taxes, friendships, volunteer work, rest, relaxation, food, and many more things are all intentional choices now made in service of my mission. All those things, which others might say seem to be off-mission, are in fact making me a functioning, decent person who is then able to pursue a mission. There’s a whole suite of things that people incorrectly talk about as “home” life, (or “personal” life, or sometimes just “life”,) which they need to balance against “work” life. No. No no. No no no. I tried splitting my universe into work and life and that’s simply not reality.

There’s only “life” time. Stare unflinching at those choices that seem to be on the margins, for they too are just as much important choices about your life.

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Have it all

When we try to do it all and have it all, we find ourselves making trade-offs at the margins that we would never take on as our intentional strategy. When we don’t purposefully and deliberately choose where to focus our energies and time, other people—our bosses, our colleagues, our clients, and even our families—will choose for us, and before long we’ll have lost sight of everything that is meaningful and important.

~ Greg McKeown

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