"What Would Your Portfolio Look Like If It Were Easy?" - Greg McKeown(Effortless) Made Me Ask This

John Meaney

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Most of us accept "hard" as the price of doing something important.

Greg McKeown author of Effortless disagrees. And after applying his question to my own investing, so do I.

The question: "What would this look like if it were easy?"

Here's what happens when I actually run it:

❌ Hard version: Research 20 stocks, monitor daily, react to every earnings call, try to time every entry.

✅ Easy version: Own 6–8 blue chip positions, add monthly, let compounding do the heavy lifting.

❌ Hard version: Agonize over covered call timing using 12 different indicators.

✅ Easy version: Follow

@Eric Seto

RSI framework. Wait for the signal. Execute. Repeat.

❌ Hard version: Predict macro events before they happen.

✅ Easy version: Own quality. Stay invested. Rebalance once a year.

McKeown's core insight: our instinct for the easier path isn't laziness, it's design. The real question is whether your system is simple enough to follow consistently, because a sophisticated strategy you abandon beats nothing. A simple strategy you execute every month builds wealth.

Which version are you running... the hard one or the easy one?

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