Greg McKeown on How to Make Life Easier

<p>Greg McKeown is an author, public speaker in leadership, and business strategist. Greg often speaks on how to live and lead as an essentialist.&nbsp;He&nbsp;has dedicated his career to discovering why some people and teams break through to the next level—and others don’t.&nbsp;His writing has appeared or been covered by&nbsp;<em>The New York Times</em>,&nbsp;<em>Fortune, HuffPost, Politico, and&nbsp;Harvard Business Review.</em>&nbsp;He is&nbsp;the CEO of McKeown Inc. whose clients include Adobe, Apple, Google, Facebook, Pixar, Twitter, and Yahoo!.</p><p>In this episode, Eric and Greg discuss his book,&nbsp;<a href="https://bookshop.org/a/16850/9780593135648" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Effortless: Make it Easier to Do What Matters Most</em>.</a>&nbsp;</p><p>But wait – there’s more! The episode is not quite over!! We continue the conversation and you can access this exclusive content right in your podcast player feed.&nbsp;<a href="https://oneyoufeed.net/support" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Head over to our Patreon page and pledge to donate just $10 a month.&nbsp;</a>It’s that simple and we’ll give you good stuff as a thank you!</p><p>In This Interview, Greg McKeown and I Discuss How to Make Life Easier and …</p><ul><li>His book,&nbsp;<a href="https://bookshop.org/a/16850/9780593135648" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Effortless: Make it Easier to Do What Matters Most</em></a></li><li>The power of gratitude – and how it literally cannot be overpracticed</li><li>The practice of saying something you’re grateful for after every time you complain</li><li>What it means to live in the gain vs. live in the gap</li><li>Asking yourself, “what if there’s no other way than this to grow in this life?”</li><li>The many ways we make life harder than it needs to be</li><li>That holding a grudge is a primary way of making life harder than it is</li><li>The power of asking the question: “What did I hire this grudge to do? Is it doing it?”</li><li>The way conditions on forgiveness s