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ESSENTIALISM 21-DAY CHALLENGE

01 THE ESSENTIALIST 02 CHOOSE 03 DISCERN 04 TRADE-OFF 05 ESCAPE 06 LOOK 07 PLAY

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Find an accountability Catch yourself one time Ask, “What’s the most When the thought crosses Create a room at home Start an essentialist Spend time playing a
partner and read Ch. 1 saying the words, “I have important thing I can do your mind, “I will do both” where there is no journal: write only one game with a child for ten
together. Invite them to to.” Replace them with, “I today?” stop, pause, and pick one technology. Put your phone sentence a day answering minutes. Lose yourself in
do the 21-Day Challenge choose to because if I don’t of the choices. to sleep at a set time in a the question, “What’s the the magical exploration
together with you. [fill in the blank].” different room to where you most important thing that that comes so easily to
sleep. happened today?” children.

08 SLEEP 09 SELECT 10 CLARIFY 11 DARE 12 UNCOMMIT 13 EDIT 14 LIMIT

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Take a twenty-minute nap. One time today, when Before going into your Write out how to say no Look at each commitment Use this rule for today: Next time anyone asks you
something isn’t a clear next meeting, pause and gracefully. Word it carefully on your calendar for this If you say yes to a new to do something, pause
yes, make it a clear no. ask yourself, “What is the and practice it. week. Ask, “If I wasn’t activity, then edit out an and say, “Let me check
one thing I really want to already involved, how existing activity to make my calendar and get
achieve coming out of this hard would I work to get space for it. back to you.” Buy yourself
meeting?” involved now?” some time to think about
it against your current
commitments.

15 BUFFER 16 SUBSTRACT 17 PROGRESS 18 FLOW 19 FOCUS 20 BE 21 SHARE

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Add four, thirty minute Design a morning routine Start a meeting today with Starting with a blank, one- Pause once today and Schedule a personal Invite your team to read
“appointments” on your that invigorates you. the question “What has week calendar, design your ask yourself, “What’s quarterly offsite to explore, Essentialism as a book
calendar every day for gone right since we last Dream Routine. This is how important now?” talk, reflect, dream and club. It will give you a
buffer. You don’t know met?” you want, ideally, to spend plan. The goal is to see the shared language to speak
ahead of time what you your time each week over big picture: to see what about the things that really
will do with that time. It the next quarter. will matter in the end, to matter.
exists to help you handle set long-term goals from
the unexpected problems that perspective and to
and opportunities that break that down into plans
come your way. for the next quarter.

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