NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A Times (UK) Best Book of the Year • From the author of the
million-copy-selling Essentialism comes an empowering guide to achieving your goals. It all
starts with a simple principle: Not everything has to be so hard. "In a world beset by
burnout Greg McKeown's work is essential."-Daniel H. Pink author of When Drive and To Sell
Is Human "At a time when fear uncertainty and our ever-growing list of responsibilities
have come to feel like much too much to handle Effortless couldn't be timelier or more
necessary."-Eve Rodsky author of Fair Play Do you ever feel like: • You're teetering right
on the edge of burnout? • You want to make a higher contribution but lack the energy? •
You're running faster but not moving closer to your goals? • Everything is so much harder than
it used to be? As high achievers we've been conditioned to believe that the path to success
is paved with relentless work. That if we want to overachieve we have to overexert overthink
and overdo. That if we aren't perpetually exhausted we're not doing enough. But lately
working hard is more exhausting than ever. 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. Getting ahead doesn't have to be as hard as we
make it. No matter what challenges or obstacles we face there is a better way: instead of
pushing ourselves harder we can find an easier path. Effortless offers actionable advice for
making the most essential activities the easiest ones so you can achieve the results you want
without burning out. Effortless teaches you how to: • Turn tedious tasks into enjoyable
rituals • Prevent frustration by solving problems before they arise • Set a sustainable pace
instead of powering through • Make one-time choices that eliminate many future decisions •
Simplify your processes by removing unnecessary steps • Make relationships easier to maintain
and manage • And much more The effortless way isn't the lazy way. It's the smart way. It may
even be the only way. Not every hard thing in life can be made easy. But we can make it
easier to do more of what matters most.
