Instead, ask the more essential question that will inform every future decision you will ever make: “If we could be truly excellent at only one thing… - Greg McKeown

If we could be truly excellent at only one thing, what would it be?” ASK,

To eliminate non-essentials means saying no to someone. Often. It means pushing against social expectations. To do it well takes courage and compassion. So eliminating the non-essentials isn’t just about mental discipline. It’s about the emotional discipline necessary to say no to social pressure.

The tendency to continue doing something simply because we have always done it is sometimes called the “status quo bias.

while there are clearly people who can survive on fewer hours of sleep, I’ve found that most of them are just so used to being tired they have forgotten what it really feels like to be fully rested.