What Is Essential and What Is Nonessential, and Who Shall Decide | Eastern NC Now

    If you read anything today, we urge you to take the time to read this entire article. We are confident you will find it worth your time. It provides excellent material for teaching your children or grandchildren. It will serve any young person well to learn to discern the essential from the trivial many.

• Nothing like a global pandemic to get you thinking about what matters most. The forced physical isolation and disruption from the "daily drill" have created solitary moments of introspection and the opportunity to define what is truly essential in our lives.
• I recently interviewed best-selling author Greg McKeown for my "Therefore, What?" podcast. His book "Essentialism" is a must-read for many reasons. When I asked him for some specific applications of the principles for living as an "essentialist," he quickly flipped it into an intervention and used me and my current schedule as clinical material to make the point.

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    Read the full article HERE on Western Journal.