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Please join so that I can help you to be able to implement the ideas on this podcast and from Effortless and Essentialism, the books. It’s one of the fastest-growing newsletters on the web. Let’s beginĪ reminder that if you haven’t yet signed up for the One Minute Wednesday newsletter, you’re missing out on an opportunity. In this episode, the first of a series of four episodes about how to apply effortless thinking to our work lives, I’ll begin by something that is anything but effortless, which is meetings. Meetings can be a drain on our time and energy, but they don’t have to be. I’m your host, Greg McKeown, and I am here with you on this journey to learn to understand so that we can be utilized at our highest point of contribution.ĭo you dread attending meetings because they seem like a waste of time and energy? Are you tired of spending your days in back-to-back meetings with little time left to focus on your actual work? If so, this episode is for you.

Research Proves Your Brain Needs Breaks Microsoft Work Labs.

Sample Meeting Agenda from Roger Schwarz.

How to Design an Agenda for an Effective Meeting by Roger Schwarz.

Perlow, Constance Noonan Hadley, and Eunice Eun

Estimate the Cost of a Meeting with This Calculator.

Links and Resources You’ll Love from the Episode

The case for effortless meetings (17:01).

Why your brain needs a break between meetings (14:30).The secret to creating an effective meeting agenda (12:05).

5 steps for improving your meetings (7:09).

How to estimate the cost of a meeting (5:57).

Why you should make it harder to have meetings(4:18).

Do I have a clear understanding of what the purpose of this meeting is and how it will help me achieve my essential goals?.

To make meetings more effortless, make it harder to have meetings: Before you say yes to a meeting, pause to review your calendar and ask if it helps you achieve what is really important this week and ask yourself what trade-offs are involved.

In order for a meeting to be essential and effortless, we need to ensure we have a really clear purpose for the meeting.

We are suffering from an inflation of nonessential meetings.