Are you coaching what’s essential?
You may or may not have heard of the term ‘Essentialism,’ a term popularised by Greg McKeown in his excellent book ‘Essentialism – The Disciplined Pursuit of Less.’ The idea behind the book is to focus on only the essential aspects of your life and being more selective with our time.
You may think that now may not be the best time to think of this as some of us are just off from a busy season, but it may well be the best time before preseason kicks back in!Greg explains in his fantastic book that the current world “we live in where almost everything is worthless and a very few things are exceptionally valuable.” (Click to Tweet)
People struggle with implementing essentialism way of life as they keep holding on to the belief that everything is important. Which makes your wonder, do you hold everything in your coaching life at equal importance? Maybe worth thinking about when you are stuck in the office at 10 pm doing ‘important work’ with your family at home waiting for you.
The point Greg is making is that you cannot have it all, you can’t be the ‘yes person’ to everything, even if you really wanted to. He leaves the readers with one final point.
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