Mengenal Essentialism dan Mengapa Kamu Perlu Mengetahuinya
- Selasa, Juni 13, 2017
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Habis dapat pencerahan dari Michael Hyatt, really inspiring, dan mungkin sebagian besar representatif dari kehidupanmu banget..
pernah nggak sih, kepikiran kalau kalian punya banyak hal yang harus dikerjakan dalam satu waktu, wah kayak gimana tuh?
simplenya gini deh,
ini kan lagi bulan puasa nih, nah katakanlah yg kita bicarain ini kehidupannya mahasiswa, mungkin kalian harus mengerjakan dan menyelesaikan hal-hal tertentu meskipun di bulan puasa dan hari libur kuliah..
nah pasti ada lah yg lagi sibuk siapin sidang skripsi, sibuk organisasi, siapin keberlanjutan pengurus organisasi, rapat koordinasi dan satu lagi yang ga ada di bulan lain, ajakan bukber temen-temen..😁
well, mungkin waktu kita masih sd bukber paling mentok di sekolah, atau sama gerombolan teman akrab, keluarga, atau saudara, nah tp semakin lo tumbuh dewasa (eaa😁) ajakan bukber pun bertambah.. 😁😁
dari yang mulai teman sd,smp kelas 7, 8 ,9 , sma kelas 10,11,12 , osis smp, osis sma, himpunan, panjang sampe posisi lo sekarang berada.. (kalo dipikir-pikir banyak jg 😰) tp itu baru aja ajakan bukber, belum yg lain, misal ada tugas, tanggungan organisasi, bantuin orang tua, rapat, dll.
nah , di suatu saat pasti antara satu sama yg lain pasti ad yg crash jadwalnya, dan disaat itu decision making skill lo bener2 dituntut keras 😀
Dan pada saat di posisi itu lo pasti harus mengorbankan sebahagian yang lain di atas sebahagian yang lainnya.
Nah, pasti banyak kan yang mengalami kasus kaya gitu, kebetulan aja ini aku baru aja dpt inspirasi dari blognya Michael Hyatt, sangat membantu banget kalo disimak, dan ini yg anak muda sebenernya butuhkan,
artikelnya sengaja aku buat tetep in english, biar tidak mengurangi arti dan esensi kalimat yg ad disini
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It’s easy to confuse abundance with blessing, especially in our work life. But sometimes abundance is just another word for burden. And it’s crucial for our success and satisfaction that we learn to spot the difference
More opportunities cross my desk every day than I can manage, and I bet it’s the same for you—even if you don’t always realize it.
We face a constant temptation in life to take on more than we can handle. We just don’t have the bandwidth. But it’s hard to let an opportunity go, isn’t it?
👉Dismantling the Yes Bomb
Each invitation, pitch, and request feels special, seems flattering, and promises more money, fun, or significance than we currently have. It’s just too good to pass up, we rationalize—forgetting that we’ve already excused several other yeses using the very same logic.
It’s even harder to reject demands from employers, clients, and others—even when we know we can’t manage them all.
We figure we’ll have to squeeze the new demand into the margin someplace, unaware that all our yeses are building a bomb that will eventually make casualties of our health, job performance, family life, and more.
The best guide I’ve discovered to dismantling these “yes bombs” is Greg McKeown’s new book, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less.
👉The Trivial Many and the Vital Few
“There are far more activities and opportunities in the world than we have time and resources to invest in,” McKeown says. “And although many of them may be good, or even very good, the fact is that most are trivial and few are vital.”
That’s the crucial difference between blessing and burden. We can fill our time with very good things and end up saddled, straddled, and stressed. That’s because good things might still be trivial.
As McKeown shows, Essentialism is a lifestyle focused on discerning the difference between the “many trivial” and the “vital few.” Essentialists are committed to the vital few in every circumstance they can manage.
The benefits include not only lower stress, but the satisfaction of developing real excellence and making a vital contribution through our callings.
👉7 Realities Every Essentialist Knows
Essentialism explains the ins and outs of the Essentialist lifestyle, but these are seven realities I found particularly meaningful as I look at my own day-to-day evaluation of opportunities.
1.The power of choice
When we forget we have the power of choice, we allow others to determine what fills our time instead of ourselves.
Essentialists remain empowered by choice to determine what they do and don’t do with their time.
2.The momentum of focus
For every ten things Nonessentialists do, Essentialists do one. Instead of diffusing their energy, they focus it and gain momentum to make more impact than they otherwise could. When we complain about being “spread too thin” at work, this is a sure sign we need to shed tasks and train our focus.
3. The importance of tradeoffs
To do one thing is to miss out on others—and maybe even essential things. The more we commit to doing, the more strained our schedules for the the things that are truly important, including family, rest, and play.
Essentialists weigh every opportunity against the potential tradeoffs.
4.The value of extreme criteria
Essentialists don’t consider the minimum requirements for a yes. They use extreme criteria: Is this exactly what I want? Am I ideal for this opportunity? As McKeown says, “If it isn’t a clear yes, then it’s a clear no.”
5.The role of the journalist
The role of a journalist is not to regurgitate facts, but to explain the meaning of those facts. Essentialists act as journalists of their own experience. Instead of allowing others to determine what matters and why, Essentialists make that determination for themselves.
6.The power of clarity
According to McKeown, Essentialists pass on about 90 percent of opportunities. If we are clear on what we do, we can filter out a thousand things we shouldn’t.
To gain this clarity requires asking hard questions, making difficult tradeoffs, and exercising self-discipline. And
Essentialists know it’s totally worth investing in the 10 percent of opportunities that make sense for them.
7. The liberating possibility of no
Saying no to the many trivial requests, Essentialists are really saying yes to what matters most in their lives: their faith, their family, their health, their calling.
To be successful, satisfied, fulfilled people, according to McKeown, we need to save our energy and creativity for just a few essential opportunities and pass on all the rest.
That will mean some hard choices, but we’re tricking ourselves to think burdening ourselves with superfluous yeses will make our life more comfortable. We’ll just shortchange the important activities and people in our lives.
Question: What’s truly essential in your life right now and what extraneous activities do you need to limit today? You can leave a comment
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Source : www.michaelhyatt.com
