Essentialism lifestyle, You Only Hold On to The Things That Help You

 

Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

If you’re like most people, you live a life of expectations and pressure. You strive to do your best in the areas of your life that matter the most to you. You want healthy, loving relationships.

You want a financially rewarding career that you enjoy. But in the midst of all the striving, you end up feeling like you’re spinning your wheels. You feel like you have a lot of forward motion, but no real movement.

Your productivity isn’t at the level where you want it to be. You feel like you’re running from sunup to sundown and not really making a whole lot of headway. The problem is that you’re wasting too much time on stuff that you shouldn’t be.

In the book, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less, the author teaches how you can streamline your life and start only doing what really matters. Unlike a lot of self-help advice you’ll find, the book won’t show you how to find the time to add more to your plate, so you create an overly complex task list.

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Instead, it teaches you the true meaning of being productive. You’ll discover that time is a precious commodity and you don’t need to know how to manage it. What you need to know instead is how to value the time that you do have.

You’ll learn that you’ll end up doing less, but accomplish more. The book shows that by developing an essentialism lifestyle, you only hold on to the things that help you — the things that are meaningful.

If you’ve ever gone through your home and cleaned out stuff that you no longer wanted or given away things that you felt were weighing you down, the concept is like that. But instead of getting rid of stuff, you’re getting rid of behaviors and learning how to do what’s important.

You’ll stop feeling like your life is mired in chaos, like you’re trying to get to the bottom of a never-ending to-do list. You’ll discover why less is actually more when you stop trying to do everything and be everything.

The book will show you how to figure out what your priorities are and concentrate only on those things. Part of the book covers the art of doing less. Instead of aiming to finish twenty things, you’ll learn how to do only a handful, but to focus on that handful and do it to the best of your ability.

This way, you’re not spreading your talent, skill or mental energy as thin as you once did. The book teaches that you should stop trying to take everything onto your shoulders and instead, do what you’re good at. A key element of the book is on learning how to understand when something truly needs your attention and learning to let go when it doesn’t.