Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most Hardcover – April 27, 2021

Wow great and such a motivating book. I really enjoyed the wisdom of doing less but better. I love this and essentialism because it’s simply but also hard to implement especially for as me as “hard work” ethic kind of Person. I am definitely changing mindset even more now to working smart! I will use this knowledge right now by making flash cards and applying it daily. Now I will apply it to make Spanish learning easier and more enjoyable!

Absolutely love this book. The entire book is filled with great suggestions and ideas that will challenge you to think in new ways. The stories shared throughout the book help support the key concepts. The final chapter is vulnerable and heartbreaking while also challenging and encouraging.One of my favorite quotes from the book... "Perfectionism makes essential projects hard to start, self-doubt makes them hard to finish, and trying to do too much, too fast, makes it hard to sustain momentum."If you are feeling stuck, run-down, discouraged, and/or frustrated among other things then perhaps it's time to consider an alternative path...Perhaps it time to choose "Effortless"...

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book.The lessons are applicable to all of us and can be easily applied to life's journey

Strongly recommend to those looking for straightforward ideas on building systems to simplify in order thrive in life and business. Greg McKeown is a tremendous teacher… enjoy!

Very good will buy again

I am not trying to bash this book. I think there are good ideas to chew on, it is enjoyable and easy to read, and there are people who likely could find a lot useful from it. I was personally disappointed by this book though. Essentialism was a helpful book to me, but when I read it years ago I also had not read a lot of self-help/productivity books yet. Now I have "been around the block" and so I found this book to be a hodge-podge of good ideas (I'm not saying that the ideas contained are not good) that I have heard iterations of before. The stories and references were very familiar (Jim Collins, How Will You Measure Your Life, Elon Musk, the list goes on.). I wish this book had felt more like a clear path or system. A curation of the top highest leverage ideas to "achieve effortlessness" - instead of MANY good ideas. I left it feeling like - where would I begin? I wish this book had references that I hadn't already heard (take Malcom Gladwell's books for example. He uses stories you've NEVER heard of before). OR that the author had somehow proven that these systems are working with in his life, or the lives of others. Take people like Dave Ramsey or Marie Kondo (whether you like them or not). They created systems and a path that people can easily follow and see certain results. That is not what this book is. This is like a compilation of a bunch of podcasts. A hodge podge of suggestions that may leave you feeling more down and confused than before you picked it up. I felt this book was a bit ironic in nature.

Really puts life in perspective. Why work so hard when you can be effortless

I didn’t realize how big a problem my perfectionism was till I read this book and how deeply everything resonated with me. A lot in this books appears common sense backed by anecdotes but depending upon where you are in life, these ideas might be novel: the idea of compounding work, high leverage tasks, not over exerting and being consistent instead, being comfortable with ‘rubbish’ and so on. I don’t agree with the author on not working hard but he comes from the right place of explaining how being consistent everyday is more important than being exceptional once or twice a month (hare vs tortoise).