"Being busy can make you feel important, but is what you are busy about important? This is the sort of “Intelligent Question” a good coach asks. In my experience, permanently busy people tend to confuse busyness and success, adrenaline and purpose, and effort and effectiveness."
-- Robert Holden
"When we forget our ability to choose, we learn to be helpless. Drip by drip we allow our power to be taken away until we end up becoming a function of other people’s choices—or even a function of our own past choices. In turn, we surrender our power to choose. That is the path of the Nonessentialist. The Essentialist doesn’t just recognize the power of choice, he celebrates it. The Essentialist knows that when we surrender our right to choose, we give others not just the power but also the explicit permission to choose for us."
-- Greg McKeown
