Effortless Quotes

“Follow the Three I’s Rule: hire people with integrity, intelligence, and initiative.”
― Greg McKeown, Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most

“Set an effortless pace: slow is smooth, smooth is fast. Reject the false economy of “powering through.” Create the right range: I will never do less than X, never more than Y.”
― Greg McKeown, Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most

“Each time I complain I will say something I am thankful for.”
― Greg McKeown, Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most

“Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast”—”
― Greg McKeown, Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most

“Protect Your Rubbish from the Harsh Critic in Your Head”
― Greg McKeown, Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most

“Make Failure as Cheap as Possible”
― Greg McKeown, Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most

“Free of the assumptions that make your problem look hard, you would be surprised how often an easier solution appears.”
― Greg McKeown, Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most

“Effortless Inversion means looking at problems from the opposite perspective. It means asking, “What if this could be easy?” It means learning to solve problems from a state of focus, clarity, and calm. It means getting good at getting things done by putting in less effort.”
― Greg McKeown, Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most

“What if, instead, we considered the possibility that the reason something feels hard is that we haven’t yet found the easier way to do it?”
― Greg McKeown, Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most

“It’s curious to me how we default to sayings like “It won’t be easy, but it’s worth it” or “It’s going to be really hard to make that happen, but we should try.” It’s like we all automatically accept that the “right” way is, inevitably, the harder one.”
― Greg McKeown, Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most

“When you have trust in your relationships, they take less effort to maintain and manage.”
― Greg McKeown, Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most

“A motivação não basta, porque é um recurso limitado. Para avançar verdadeiramente nas coisas que importam, precisamos de um jeito novo de trabalhar e viver. Em vez de tentar obter resultados melhores nos esforçando ainda mais, podemos transformar as atividades mais essenciais nas mais fáceis de serem executadas.”
― Greg McKeown, Sem Esforço: Torne Mais Fácil O Que É Mais Importante

“Do not do more today than you can completely recover from today. Do not do more this week than you can completely recover from this week.”
― Greg McKeown, Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most

“Who we hire is a disproportionately important decision that makes a thousand other decisions. Each new hire may well influence future hires, gradually shifting the norms and the culture over time.”
― Greg McKeown, Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most

“Put simply, a system is self-sustaining if it requires less and less investment of energy over time. Once it’s set in motion, maintaining it becomes easier, then easy, then eventually effortless.”
― Greg McKeown, Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most

“The Effortless State is one in which you are physically rested, emotionally unburdened, and mentally energized. You are completely present, attentive, and focused on what’s important in that moment. You are able to do what matters most with ease.”
― Greg McKeown, Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most

“esforçar-se além da conta torna mais difícil obter o resultado que se quer.”
― Greg McKeown, Sem Esforço: Torne Mais Fácil O Que É Mais Importante

“Essential Project: Complete the first draft of a book Lower Bound: Never less than five hundred words a day Upper Bound: Never more than one thousand words a day”
― Greg McKeown, Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most

“What are the minimum steps required for completion?”
― Greg McKeown, Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most

“get an important project done it’s absolutely necessary to define what “done” looks like.”
― Greg McKeown, Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most

“An Effortless Summary”
― Greg McKeown, Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most

“Arianna Huffington used to buy into the notion that anything worth doing required superhuman effort. But she has since said that she didn’t become truly successful until she stopped overworking herself. “It’s also our collective delusion that overwork and burnout are the price we must pay in order to succeed,” she says.”
― Greg McKeown, Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most