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Hi, I'm Michael Hyatt, and this is Lead to Win, the weekly podcast to help you win at work and succeed at life.

And in this episode, we're talking about two hyper strategies that will take your weekly planning to the next level.

Megan Hyatt Miller is still on parental leave with her newly adopted daughter Naomi, but she's gonna be back soon.

But today, we're gonna solve a problem that most high achievers face, and that is having your week train wrecked by unforeseen problems, relentless interruptions, and the normal whirlwind of trying to run a business.

If that describes you, no worries. We've got a solution for you, and I'm joined as always by Larry Wilson. Hey, Larry.

Hey, Michael. How are you? I'm doing great. Thanks.

You know, that situation where that really did describe me in a lot of weeks, really before I came to a Michael Hyatt company, but man, your week is just blown right off the bat.

Things are flying at you as soon as you hit the door. Sometimes before you walk in the door, you're getting phone calls or you're getting pinged on email or text messaging. And wow, that can be a real problem.

It's really hard to enter the week with a plan that's gonna hold up for five days.

It's really true. And I could think back early in my career when I started getting some management responsibility as responsible for other people, and hitting the office on Monday morning, and kind of having a plan of what I knew I needed to accomplish that week.

And almost immediately being on my heels and just trying to fend off the deluge of interruptions and requests and feeling like I just kind of lost control of my week.

And then all of a sudden, you know, anything goes, I'm not sure where I'm gonna end up at the end of the week.

And that's so often why I would drag work into the weekend because I didn't get it done during the week.

You know, I didn't have a plan to get it done during the week. And when I got to the end of the week and didn't get it done and it had to be done, then that became my Saturdays or my Sunday evening. And it's not a great way to live.

But here's the reality or here's the key. You don't need another day in the week. You need a better strategy for keeping your focus.

So you got to be proactive, not reactive. You got to take control of your focus, your priorities and your energy. And that's exactly what we're gonna talk about.

We've got two strategies that will take your weekly planning to the next level. Now, just to let everybody know how this episode lays out.

The first strategy is gonna be something we talk about a lot. It's probably new to some people, but it's embedded in the full focus planner.

We're gonna go over that. And the second, these are our tweaks or hacks that will take that to a whole new level.

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