The Power of Doing Less

Overloaded? I’ll bet you are.

We all lead busy lives. You fall into bed exhausted at the end of the day, feeling that you’ve got a lot done. Perhaps you are getting lots done.

But is it stuff that really matters? Or is it just stuff?

It’s time to wise up. You will never clear that list.

Get used to the idea that some things will never get done. Not delayed. Not rescheduled. Not re-prioritized. But simply dropped.

And from now on, instead of trying to clear that endless to-do list, you’re going to do a much smarter thing. You’re going to just do the important stuff.

And the brilliant thing is, you already have the power to do this.

That power is to do less.

Soon enough, you’ll have the space to enjoy the moment, be creative, find new or better ways of doing things, get ideas, and spot opportunities you would have missed when you were running around.

In short – you’ll be happier. Much happier.

As soon as you stop doing, the power of doing less will begin to flow.

About the Author

The Sunday Business Post has described Fergus O'Connell as having 'more strings to his bow than a Stradivarius'.

His 2002 novel, Call The Swallow, was described by The Irish Times as 'better than Schindler's Ark' (itself a Booker Prize winner). Call The Swallow was short listed for the 2002 Kerry Ingredients Irish Fiction Prize and nominated for the Hughes & Hughes / Sunday Independent Novel of the Year. The first two novels in his The Four Lights quartet of love stories - Starlight and The Photographs of Gettysburg: Sunlight have already been published. The final two books in the sequence - Moonlight and Candlelight will be published in Autumn 2013 and Spring 2014.

Fergus is also the author of thirteen business books. The first of these, How to Run Successful Projects - the Silver Bullet, has become both a bestseller and a classic and has been constantly in print for over twenty years. His book on common sense entitled Simply Brilliant - also a bestseller and now in its fourth edition - was runner-up in the W H Smith Book Awards 2002. His books have been translated into twenty languages.

Fergus has also written a book on project management for children. Entitled, How To Put A Man On The Moon If You're A Kid, the book is one of a pair of books to teach the essential skills of project management and time management to schoolchildren. (The other - How To Build Rome In A Day If You're A Kid - will be published in 2014.)