To eliminate non-essentials means saying no to someone. Often. It means pushing against social expectations. To do it well takes courage and compassi… - Greg McKeown

eliminating the nonessentials isn’t just about mental discipline. It’s about the emotional discipline necessary to say no to social pressure.

Whether it’s “miles per day” or “words per day” or “hours per day,” there are few better ways to achieve effortless pace than to set an upper bound.

the “planning fallacy.”6 This term, coined by Daniel Kahneman in 1979, refers to people’s tendency to underestimate how long a task will take, even when they have actually done the task before

If you want to make something hard, indeed truly impossible, to complete, all you have to do is make the end goal as vague as possible.