318: Michael Hyatt - Achieve More By Doing Less, Work Productivity Hacks, The Power Of Constraints
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2019
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Michael Hyatt (IG: @michaelhyatt) is the CEO and founder of Michael Hyatt & Company. He’s scaled multiple companies over the years, including a $250M publishing company and his own leadership development company that has grown over 60% year over year for the past 4 years.
Michael is a New York Times bestselling author whose latest book is titled, Free to Focus, which focuses in on productivity and how to achieve more by doing less.
He’s been married for over 40 years, has five daughters, and nine grandchildren.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Michael’s health scare, 20 years ago
- Achieve more by doing less
- Establish a hard boundary
- Make the commitment
- The 4 types of freedom
- Be intentional about rejuvenation
- Optimize your sleep routine
- What are your three big wins today?
- 4 daily rituals
- Start your day by journaling
- What is the double win?
- The power of constraints
- The Freedom Compass
- The development zone
- Setting up your workday routine
- Don’t respond to messages instantly
- Work productivity hacks
- Setting up email signatures & autoresponders
- Hiring an assistant
- What is the best use of your time?
- Strategies for saying no
- The Yes-No-Yes Formula
- Unyielding integrity
- The 3x3 Strategy
- Paper planners help you stay focused
- Realize your full potential
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Related links:
Michael Hyatt - Free To Focus (book)
Follow Michael Hyatt on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter
Michael Hyatt's Lead to Win Podcast
William Ury - The Power of a Positive No (book)
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| 0:00.0 | Our family life, our personal lives, our work lives are inseparable. |
| 0:04.4 | You know, we're one person and it's one seamless whole. |
| 0:07.4 | And when we start experiencing health problems, for example, |
| 0:10.5 | that has an impact on our work. |
| 0:12.4 | And if our work is stressful, that's going to have an impact on our family. |
| 0:16.0 | And so there's this symbiotic relationship between all of this, which is why I said at the beginning, |
| 0:20.0 | it's important that we come up with a strategy and a plan and a way for us to win at work and succeed at life. The double win. Hello and welcome to the Ultimate Health Podcast episode 318 |
| 0:36.8 | Jesse Chapp is here with Marnie Wasserman and we are here to take your health |
| 0:41.0 | to the next level. |
| 0:42.0 | Each week we will bring you inspiring and informative conversations about health and wellness, |
| 0:47.0 | covering topics of nutrition, lifestyle, fitness, mindset, and so much more. |
| 0:51.0 | And this week our featured guest is Michael Hyatt. He's the CEO and |
| 0:54.8 | founder of Michael Hyatt and company. He's scaled multiple companies over the |
| 0:58.9 | years including a 250 million dollar publishing company and his own leadership development company that has grown |
| 1:05.3 | over 60% year over year for the past four years. |
| 1:09.7 | Michael is a New York Times best-selling author whose books include platform living |
| 1:14.4 | forward your best year ever and free to focus the latter being the focus of today's |
| 1:19.3 | chat he's been married for over 40 years, has five daughters, and nine grandchildren. |
| 1:25.0 | Michael Hyatt's podcast was actually one of the first podcasts that Jesse introduced me to, |
| 1:30.0 | way back in the day when we first started dating, and this is when Jesse was so gung-ho on |
| 1:34.1 | us starting a podcast and Jesse's been a fan of his work ever since and we're so |
| 1:39.7 | excited to have him on the show because his message about productivity and focus is something we really |
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