Read [PDF] Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit

Have you ever found yourself stretched too thin?<br />Do you simultaneously feel overworked and underutilized?<br />Are you often busy but not productive?<br /> Do you feel like your time is constantly being hijacked by other people’s agendas?<br /><br />If you answered yes to any of these, the way out is the <i>Way of the Essentialist</i>The Way of the Essentialist isn’t about getting more done in less time. It’s about getting <i>only the right things</i> done.  It is not  a time management strategy, or a productivity technique. It is a <i>systematic discipline</i> for discerning what is absolutely essential, then eliminating everything that is not, so we can make the highest possible contribution towards the things that really matter.  <br /><br />By forcing us to apply a more selective criteria for what is Essential, the disciplined pursuit of less empowers us to reclaim control of our own choices about where to spend our precious time and energy – instead of giving others the impli