
Your Best Year Ever: A 5-Step Plan for Achieving Your Most Important Goals

Gratitude also improves our patience.
Michael Hyatt • Your Best Year Ever: A 5-Step Plan for Achieving Your Most Important Goals
Black-and-white thinking. That’s when we assume we’ve failed if we don’t achieve perfection. Reality is usually a sliding scale, not a toggle switch.
Michael Hyatt • Your Best Year Ever: A 5-Step Plan for Achieving Your Most Important Goals
limit my tasks to what I call my Daily Big 3.
Michael Hyatt • Your Best Year Ever: A 5-Step Plan for Achieving Your Most Important Goals
“Letter from a Birmingham Jail.”
Michael Hyatt • Your Best Year Ever: A 5-Step Plan for Achieving Your Most Important Goals
Personalizing. That’s when we blame ourselves for random negative occurrences.
Michael Hyatt • Your Best Year Ever: A 5-Step Plan for Achieving Your Most Important Goals
The daily review is designed to make that connection between goals and tasks. As I scan the list, I look for relevant next actions. I ask myself the question: What is it that I could do today that would move me down the field toward the goal? I’m connecting my goal list to my task list.
Michael Hyatt • Your Best Year Ever: A 5-Step Plan for Achieving Your Most Important Goals
To shield ourselves from future disappointment, we develop a cynical, self-protective attitude toward life.
Michael Hyatt • Your Best Year Ever: A 5-Step Plan for Achieving Your Most Important Goals
we need to recognize that most of the barriers we face are imaginary.