Effortless

by Greg McKeown

Effortless is the most pragmatic way I’ve found to live by presence. If The Power of Now opened my heart to the mystery of being, Effortless helped bring that presence into everyday action. Greg McKeown shows that ease isn't laziness—it’s alignment. He offers a grounded path for living with clarity, grace, and less internal resistance.

In PlayfulProcess terms, Effortless is about letting the light of Being shine through our everyday actions—without resistance. Imagine your actions as the base of this triangle: Thoughts, Feelings, and Behaviors. When these are in alignment with that quiet sun of presence above—Being—something clicks. You drop the unnecessary effort. You stop trying to "force" life. Instead, you act from what I call the Just-Right place.

Greg McKeown doesn’t use spiritual language, but his message is deeply aligned with it. He teaches how to design our lives so that presence isn’t something we fight for—it’s something we allow. His book helped me see that flow isn’t magic; it’s often a matter of removing friction between form and being.

When we let go of the internal noise—the mental clutter, the guilt-driven shoulds, the productivity-at-all-costs mindset—we make space. And in that space, the light of Being can move effortlessly through our Thoughts, Feelings, and Behaviors, guiding us back to what matters most.

This book is a gift for anyone who’s trying too hard. Especially for creators, parents, and sensitive souls—it offers a new kind of discipline: the discipline of allowing.

Just like I feel he translated spiritual truths to business, I intend to do the same with books for children.