BOOK OF THE Moment
MARCH / APRIL 2022
ESSENTIALISM
by Gregory McKeown
Our next BOTM for 2022 is the ‘life-changing’ bestseller from life design guru and strategist Greg McKeown.
Throughout March and April we’ll be sharing insights and unpacking this guide to ‘the disciplined pursuit of less’ as we learn how to:
give ourselves permission to stop trying to do it all
take control of our schedules and time
let go of people pleasing
make our highest contribution towards things that matter
We’d love you to read along with us and we suggest you follow the Reading Schedule below and check-in either at one of our monthly Zoom #mondayclub book clubs (members) or weekly via social media (free!) as a way to help keep yourself accountable.
On this page you’ll find all the info you need to get started including a video intro to the book from our founder, the Club Reading Schedule and links to find out more about the author and the book.
“The way of the essentialist means living by design, not by default.
Instead of making choices reactively, the essentialist deliberately distinguishes the vital view from the trivial many, eliminates the non-essentials, and then removes obstacles so the essential things have clear, smooth passage.
In other words, essentialism is a disciplined, systematic approach for determining where our highest point of contribution lies, then making execution of those things almost effortless.”
WHY I CHOSE THIS BOOK AS BOTM
by shelf help. founder Toni
ABOUT THE BOOk
In Essentialism, Greg McKeown, CEO of a Leadership and Strategy agency in Silicon Valley who has run courses at Apple, Google and Facebook, shows you how to achieve what he calls the disciplined pursuit of less. Being an Essentialist is about a disciplined way of thinking. It means challenging the core assumption of ‘We can have it all’ and ‘I have to do everything’ and replacing it with the pursuit of ‘the right thing, in the right way, at the right time'.
By applying a more selective criteria for what is essential, the pursuit of less allows us to regain control of our own choices so we can channel our time, energy and effort into making the highest possible contribution toward the goals and activities that matter.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR, Greg McKeown
Greg says: “I believe each of us has an essential mission in life. In fact, I’m on a mission to create a community of Essentialists who support each other in Protecting the Asset, investing in the most important organizsation in the world (family) and in accomplishing what really matters.
“That’s why I wrote the book, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less. To my surprise and delight, it’s sold more than a million copies so far, has been on the New York Times bestseller list multiple times, has been published in 25+ languages, and has been voted one of the Top 20 Leadership Books to Read in a Lifetime by Amazon and Goodreads.
“The ideas in the book have reached millions of people around the world. They’ve been taught at companies including Apple, Facebook, Google, Pixar and Twitter. They’ve been covered in print media including The New Yorker, The New York Times, Time, Fast Company, Fortune, Politico, Inc., and Harvard Business Review. They’ve been covered on NPR, NBC, FOX and many times on The Steve Harvey Show.
“Essentialism can help you to choose carefully in order to do great work, feel more in control of what matters, get the right things done and also experience joy in the journey.
“You can not only design an essential life, you can make it easy and enjoyable too.”
The magic happens on Mondays at shelf help. and we suggest you follow the reading schedule above and check-in either at one of our Zoom #mondayclub book clubs (members) or weekly via social media (free!) as a way to help keep yourself accountable.
As a community we read one book every two months, giving us time to properly absorb, process and action the learnings from each book
We leave extra time at the beginning of the month to give people chance to get hold of the book and start reading before we dive in as a group