The first type of non essential you are going to have to learn to eliminate is simply any activity that's misallianed with what you are intending to achieve. A people i work with often suggest that their team's purpose or strategy is pretty clear, but anyone who wears glasses knows there's a big difference between being pretty clear and really clear. The same ses true with individuals professional strategy. I'm still taken aback by how few people can really answer that questiondand that's because, literally almost nobody seems to be able to answer that question. So this would all matter less if it were not for the fact that the clarity of purpose so consistently predicts how people do in their jobs