Essentialism

The process of refocusing on the essential goals begins with exploring and evaluating whether the current tasks contribute to those goals.

Essentialism is an approach that emphasizes finding a true, limited set of goals, defining them clearly, setting everything else aside, and not taking on additional responsibilities

The book outlines a minimalist approach to tasks and obligations by focusing on truly important goals and learning to turn down opportunities that do not directly contribute to meeting those goals

Focusing on the important few priorities can require an individual or organization to abandon other goals that are not vital but would be nice to have, which preserves resources and energy for the essential tasks

Focusing on the important few priorities can require an individual or organization to abandon other goals that are not vital but would be nice to have, which preserves resources and energy for the essential tasks

An easy way to decide what is important enough is to immediately rule out anything that is not obviously vital to the primary goal

Discerning what is important requires understanding that less can be better

Implementing essentialism in everyday life requires that essentialism be at the center of every decision made, rather than being applied only to certain decisions.

When finding ways to eliminate the nonessential from a process, focus on creating buffers for time and resources to avoid a rush

An individual or organization should be able to define the key goal clearly enough to know when it has been accomplished and to know how much needs to be done to reach it.