Fall Reset: How to Recalibrate for Q4
Focus on This
Michael Hyatt
4.5 • 657 Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Q4 can feel like calendar compression—year-end deadlines, next-year planning, and nonstop personal commitments. In this episode, Marissa Hyatt and Joel Miller share a clear, compassionate plan to reset for fall. You’ll explore six Practices of Flourishing, simple ways to reclaim presence, and concrete tactics to renegotiate commitments, right-size goals, and build momentum without burning out.
Key Takeaways
- Name the squeeze. You know what’s coming: Q4 piles up at work and in extra pressures in life. Awareness is the first step to choosing differently.
- Use the six practices of flourishing. Restoring and protecting your well-being starts with six simple practices that move you toward flourishing. What are they? You’ll have to listen to find out.
- Good beats perfect. Swap all-or-nothing for small, consistent actions. Remember: the task is only as big as you decide it is. Scale back intentionally.
- Decompress your calendar. Reassess goals and events. Create a Not-This-Year list (or move part of a goal) to protect what matters most now.
- Renegotiate with grace. Honesty + alternatives = powerful. It’s okay to change your mind. Model clarity and kindness when backing out.
- Use your filters. Let your Quarterly Big 3 and Weekly Big 3 guide your yes/no decisions—especially when FOMO kicks in.
- Build margin for presence. Schedule restorative windows (walks, baking, simple rituals) to counter the frantic pace and restore focus.
Watch on YouTube at:Â https://youtu.be/-OW2_UJ6zp8
This episode was produced by Sarah Vorhees Wendel of VW Sound
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| 0:00.0 | I don't know about you guys, but I have been seeing more pumpkin spice everything. I literally |
| 0:04.9 | saw pumpkin spice cottage cheese. Not a good idea. At Whole Foods the other day. And I wanted to gag. |
| 0:13.2 | I am not a big pumpkin spice fan, but it's everywhere. It's that time of year. You're probably |
| 0:17.9 | feeling like your calendars are bursting at the seams. That is true for me. And the |
| 0:24.7 | holiday season is looming. And I think they're literally putting out Christmas decorations at this |
| 0:31.3 | point, which it's like, can we just make it to the next one before we jump into Christmas? But alas, here we are. So most people either push |
| 0:41.9 | harder at this time of year or they give up entirely. What if you could treat this time of year |
| 0:49.6 | as a reset and actually finish this year strong and same. |
| 1:00.0 | Welcome to focus on this, the most productive podcast on the internet. |
| 1:05.2 | I'm Marissa Hyatt. |
| 1:06.4 | And I'm Joel Miller. |
| 1:07.5 | This is where we remind you of something you already know. |
| 1:10.6 | It's not about getting more things done. It's about getting the right things done. Both. I'm Joel Miller. This is where we remind you of something you already know. |
| 1:10.8 | It's not about getting more things done. |
| 1:12.8 | It's about getting the right things done. |
| 1:15.1 | Both at work and in life. |
| 1:17.0 | And today we're talking about how to recalibrate for Q4. |
| 1:21.6 | This is what we're thinking of as a reset for fall. |
| 1:24.9 | Hallelujah. |
| 1:26.1 | I know, right. |
| 1:27.1 | I mean, we haven't even gotten there yet, and it's |
| 1:28.8 | already, hallelujah, because we know what's coming. What's coming is insanity. Winter. Exactly. |
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