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Your Best Year Ever: A 5-Step Plan for Achieving Your Most Important Goals
Michael Hyatt
3.69 AVERAGE
116 reviews for:
Your Best Year Ever: A 5-Step Plan for Achieving Your Most Important Goals
Michael Hyatt
3.69 AVERAGE
Great explanation of the goal setting process plus additional help with follow thru. There assessment and action steps are GREAT tools to help put the books concepts into immediate action.
Better to read "Atomic Habits" and something from Daniel Kahneman.
This book doesn't say much
This book doesn't say much
Practical straight forward good setting advise. There are some new nuggets to take away. The Kindle version made done of the diagrams and templates hard to read.
A decent reminder of some principles when it comes to goal setting and habit forming. Nothing I haven't read elsewhere before, but still good to evaluate my current practices.
The one thing that struck a chord was the emphasis on going back to your original intent or desire that made you want to set certain goals in the first place. This can bring back the energy in case you've lost focus and motivation.
Another tip is to start with easy, attainable goals to gather steam for the more challenging aspects of your projects. This goes against the often repeated advice to 'eat the frog' (i.e. the hardest task) first, but can help if you get stuck because you are overwhelmed.
The one thing that struck a chord was the emphasis on going back to your original intent or desire that made you want to set certain goals in the first place. This can bring back the energy in case you've lost focus and motivation.
Another tip is to start with easy, attainable goals to gather steam for the more challenging aspects of your projects. This goes against the often repeated advice to 'eat the frog' (i.e. the hardest task) first, but can help if you get stuck because you are overwhelmed.
hopeful
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
I love this book. It’s full of really good information, but also it has a ton of practical steps for putting together goals that work. I highly recommend this one or the new addition.
challenging
informative
inspiring
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I read this after reading BJ Fogg’s Tiny Habits and the content was very similar. I preferred the approach of Tiny Habits a little better. While I’m obviously reviewing this book and shouldn’t compare, it was tough not to. However, what I do appreciate about Hyatt’s approach is that he talked a little more about goals and how to create ones in the discomfort zone rather than just easy goals but when taking first steps toward that big goal, we should make them in the comfort zone so we feel successful, which aligns with Fogg’s approach too. So if you’re looking at how to create some bigger goals, maybe this would be a good fit. If you know your goals and want to focus more on the small steps to get there, I think Tiny Habits does a little better of a job guiding the reader through that.
informative
medium-paced
I have read many, many books on setting and achieving goals. What sets Your Best Year Ever spare from all the others? Honestly, not much. The material covered is pretty well known: SMART goals (Hyatt adds ER to make them SMARTER), understanding the “why” behind a goal, making a plan, getting help, employing an accountability buddy, etc. Goal setting has been covered so well over the decades, we should all be experts at accomplishing our dreams by now. So why did Michael Hyatt feel the importance of writing another book on goals?
Because, frankly, we DON’T accomplish our goals. We set them with great anticipation and then get discouraged when we don’t achieve our wildest dreams. Yes, some do, but many of us don’t. And that is what Hyatt digs into.
Michael Hyatt has, for several years now, run a special class each your to help participants set and achieve goals to their Best Year Ever. He has some experience in pulling off the feat of helping people do the difficult (I won’t say impossible - that would be too pessimistic, even for me). Yes, paying several hundred dollars to get some help in achieving one’s goals is certainly a way of getting motivated. And it is possible to achieve wild success without paying the money. So what makes Your Best Year Ever different?
Stories (there are a lot of them) definitely help explain his points and help build the “I can do it too” feeling. Process and forms keep things lined up and in proper order to maximize potential. I believe the difference is Resonance.
Let’s face it. Michael Hyatt has a very large audience who follow him via his blog, podcast, books, videos and speaking. He has done an excellent job of being everywhere and helping people get excited about improving themselves. So it follows that when the student is ready, the teacher will appear. Michael has spent the last ten+ years getting people ready. And when the time is right for that person, the book is just one more way to help people execute.
I almost signed up for Hyatt’s very first Best Year Ever online course several years ago, but for various reasons, I wasn’t ready to commit to it. Several years have gone by and every year I have wondered about it. Last year, I bought his book Living Forward and read it. This year I am implementing it. So it follows that I want to make some movement toward achieving my Life Plan and achieve the goals that inherently go along with it. This year, Best Year Ever is resonating with me. The student is finally ready. Lead on, master.
Because, frankly, we DON’T accomplish our goals. We set them with great anticipation and then get discouraged when we don’t achieve our wildest dreams. Yes, some do, but many of us don’t. And that is what Hyatt digs into.
Michael Hyatt has, for several years now, run a special class each your to help participants set and achieve goals to their Best Year Ever. He has some experience in pulling off the feat of helping people do the difficult (I won’t say impossible - that would be too pessimistic, even for me). Yes, paying several hundred dollars to get some help in achieving one’s goals is certainly a way of getting motivated. And it is possible to achieve wild success without paying the money. So what makes Your Best Year Ever different?
Stories (there are a lot of them) definitely help explain his points and help build the “I can do it too” feeling. Process and forms keep things lined up and in proper order to maximize potential. I believe the difference is Resonance.
Let’s face it. Michael Hyatt has a very large audience who follow him via his blog, podcast, books, videos and speaking. He has done an excellent job of being everywhere and helping people get excited about improving themselves. So it follows that when the student is ready, the teacher will appear. Michael has spent the last ten+ years getting people ready. And when the time is right for that person, the book is just one more way to help people execute.
I almost signed up for Hyatt’s very first Best Year Ever online course several years ago, but for various reasons, I wasn’t ready to commit to it. Several years have gone by and every year I have wondered about it. Last year, I bought his book Living Forward and read it. This year I am implementing it. So it follows that I want to make some movement toward achieving my Life Plan and achieve the goals that inherently go along with it. This year, Best Year Ever is resonating with me. The student is finally ready. Lead on, master.