![]() Her boyfriend was also playing at the Seattle music festival for the first time. ![]() The spark of excitement lighting up her eyes was identical to mine, though. Her face wasn’t pouring with sweat like mine she looked gloriously dewy. I looked over at my best friend, my coworker and my confidante, Jenny. “Can you believe it, Kiera? Our boys are playing Bumbershoot!” I knew he was going to rush to that microphone at any moment, and the waiting crowd was going to let out an ear-splitting scream. In anticipation, I bounced on my feet as I waited for him to bound up onto that stage. As I stared past the few rows of glistening people in front of me to an empty stage, I was overcome with nervous energy. I rolled up the short sleeves of my midnight black shirt, then went to work tying a knot above my belly button, just like Mary Ann from Gilligan’s Island.īut then I smiled, remembering why I was wearing it and what I was doing in this crowd of sweaty bodies. As I glanced up at the cloudless, azure sky, the midday sun hit me square in the eye, blinding me. Sweat poured down the back of my T-shirt, and I momentarily cursed my fashion choice. I’d smacked more hands off my butt in that one afternoon than in the entire time I’d worked at Pete’s Bar. It was even more revolting when some of those people decided that being crammed together like sardines gave them the freedom to invade my personal space. It was revolting to have strangers rubbing up against my body. As I was jostled, smashed into, and bumped up against, I felt the afternoon heat in the clammy skin of every person who touched me. Since I’d only been there a little over a year, I took the kind man’s word for it. “If you’re squandering energy on pointless tasks and struggling to complete what really matters, this book is your salvation.Effortless Chapter 1 MY BOYFRIEND, THE ROCK STARĪccording to the Channel Four weatherman, it was the hottest summer on record in Seattle. They are simple yet brilliant strategies, and therefore easy to apply.” -Ruth Gotian, PhD, for Forbes “Based on behavioral economics, philosophy, physics, and neuroscience, in his new book, Effortless, Greg McKeown unveils tips to working smarter, not harder. Effortless is profound in its simplicity.” - Vice In a society that expects hard work, but then rewards hard work with more hard work . . . gives us the much-needed permission to take the path of least resistance. . . . “ Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most . . . “An empowering guide to achieving your goals without wrecking your health, your sanity, or your relationships.” -Rodger Dean Duncan for Forbes But we can make it easier to do more of what matters most. Not every hard thing in life can be made easy. Make relationships easier to maintain and manage.Simplify your processes by removing unnecessary steps.Make one-time choices that eliminate many future decisions.Set a sustainable pace instead of powering through.Prevent frustration by solving problems before they arise.Turn tedious tasks into enjoyable rituals. ![]() No matter what challenges or obstacles we face, there is a better way: instead of pushing ourselves harder, we can find an easier path.Įffortless offers actionable advice for making the most essential activities the easiest ones, so you can achieve the results you want, without burning out. Getting ahead doesn’t have to be as hard as we make it. And the more depleted we get, the more effort it takes to make progress. Stuck in an endless loop of “Zoom, eat, sleep, repeat,” we’re often working twice as hard to achieve half as much. That if we aren’t perpetually exhausted, we’re not doing enough.īut lately, working hard is more exhausting than ever. That if we want to overachieve, we have to overexert, overthink, and overdo.
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