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The School of Greatness

669 Respect Your Priorities with Michael Hyatt

The School of Greatness

Lewis Howes

Mindset, Relationships, Entrepreneurship, Mental Health, Education, Greatness, Fitness, Celebrity, Health, Inspiration, Success, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Business, Money, Self Care, Celebrity Interview

4.822K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2018

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

“WHEN WE HAVE PRIORITIES WE CAN DISTINGUISH BETWEEN THE URGENT AND THE IMPORTANT.” A lot of times in life we do what we feel is urgent. We will go so far as to put off what we really need to do in order to take care of urgent things. Often we even put it ahead of taking care of ourselves. It’s really unfortunate because if you don’t take care of yourself you can’t take care of the urgent. You can’t work from a hospital bed. That’s why you need to have priorities. Priorities will guide you in life’s decisions and keep you on track. Most importantly, priorities will give you the confidence to say no. They help you identify what’s truly needed in your life, versus what someone else feels is important. On this episode of 5 Minute Friday, I wanted to dive into the importance of setting priorities and sticking to them. There’s no one I know who practices this better than Michael Hyatt. Michael is a social media marketing wizard and has worked for one of the biggest publishing companies. Learn his insights on staying true to what’s necessary, on Episode 669. In This Episode You Will Learn: The essence of leadership (00:55) How Michael discovered his priorities (1:38) What gave Michael clarity (3:20) The difference between urgent and important (4:11)

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is 5 Minute Friday!

0:05.6

Welcome everyone to this special episode with my dear friend Michael Hyatt.

0:15.8

He's a New York Times bestselling author.

0:17.6

He's the former chairman and CEO of Thomas Nelson Publishers and he has a blog that gets

0:24.7

over a million unique visitors a month.

0:28.0

And he's also an expert in the field of social media.

0:30.9

His blog is ranked by Google in the top 1.5% of all blogs with more than 1 million page

0:37.6

views a month.

0:38.8

And Forbes Magazine named him one of the top 10 online marketing experts to follow and

0:44.1

one of the top 50 social media influencers.

0:46.9

And Michael is one of those guys that just spews integrity and everything he create is

0:51.5

of the highest value.

0:56.0

I always tell people you know the most important person in the world is yourself.

0:59.3

Yeah.

1:00.3

And if you're neglecting all of your needs first and giving to everyone else but not to

1:03.9

you then you're not going to serve more people.

1:06.2

That's the key what you just said, Liz.

1:07.8

Because to me the essence of leadership is service.

1:10.4

I want to serve my wife.

1:12.0

I want to serve my kids and my sons-in-law and my grandkids.

1:15.4

I want to serve the people that work for me.

1:17.7

But if I'm sick, I can't do anything.

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