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Was talking with BD and the GBM this weekend over nachos about minimalism. Three nice reads I've gone through on that subject recently, and I'm glad I read them in the order I did.

1) Essentialism, by Greg McKeown. Got hipped to this from Joe DeFranco's instagram of all places. This is great and kind of a macro overview of the subject as it applies to life and business. Do less and you will do less better.

2) The Slight Edge, by Jeff Olson. This is the closest to a conventional self-help book of the three, probably the most business-oriented (and he talks a bunch about folks like Napoleon Hill), and certainly the most actionable--he's got a worksheet at the end of the book. The slight edge=doing the little stuff correctly day in and day out.

3) The Power of Less, by Leo Barbuta. Slimmest of the three volumes and takes a chapter by chapter approach to treat smaller subjects like decluttering your email, your time, your desk as well as larger subjects like habit creation.

Basically #1 was a great intro, #2 was the book that got me the most fired up to get it going, and #3 helped me pare back the approach and really think about things one thing at a time. (This is a concept I am familiar with, as they say.)

Recommend all 3, in that order.

Would love to hear other recs on this subject.