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Good Money with Derrick Kinney

Michael Hyatt – How to get more done by doing less

Good Money with Derrick Kinney

Derrick Kinney

Business, Investing, Entrepreneurship

5.0 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, Derrick Kinney interviews best-selling author and CEO, Michael Hyatt, on how you can accomplish more in your business, your finances and your personal life by doing less. If you’re struggling to manage your workload, Michael shares the three commitments he made that changed everything so he could succeed at work and in life and how you can too.

Podcast Summary:

  • The importance of the Big Three
  • The power of entering into someone else’s world
  • Why vision is vital in leadership
  • How clarity of vision and alignment around that vision drives execution
  • Why you should forget confidence and focus on courage
  • How to work less and be more successful

Quotes:

  • “So the Big Three is to identify the three tasks that need to be done today, that if you get those done, you’re going to declare victory and count it as a win.” – Michael Hyatt
  • “…happiness is not a destination, but it’s making meaningful progress day after day on things that you believe are important.” – Michael Hyatt
  • “Leadership presupposes that you’re leading people somewhere, to a destination. If, as the leader, you’re not clear on the destination, then you’re just kind of wandering around squandering resources.” – Michael Hyatt
  • “If you’re not clear on where you’re going, you really don’t have the right to lead.” – Michael Hyatt
  • “Talking about clarity about the future drives progress toward that future.” – Michael Hyatt
  • “…when people sense that the leader believes in what they’re talking about, that transcends a lot of words.” – Derrick Kinney
  • “If you collect all the toys, if you run a big company, but if the people that you love the most aren’t there at the finish line, that’s not success.” – Michael Hyatt
  • “The symphony conductor, he doesn’t even have to play an instrument. He just has to lead and call up the right instruments at the right time.” – Michael Hyatt
  • “But courage happens when you choose to act despite your fear, confidence only comes after the fact.” – Michael Hyatt
  • “If I can lead a conversation with the incredibly talented people that I have on my team, it’s going to be so much better than what I could cook up myself.” – Michael Hyatt

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Good Money, Good Hands, Good Work, Podcast, where we believe money is not bad and good people should have more of it. Good money in the

0:14.8

hands of good people gets good work done. I'm your host Derek Kenny. Do you wake up

0:20.8

already overwhelmed by your to-do list?

0:23.4

What if you could accomplish more in your business,

0:25.9

your finances, in your personal life, by doing less?

0:29.7

Michael Hyatt is a best-selling author and CEO of Michael Hyatt and company.

0:35.1

He helps overwhelmed the leaders refocus and be more productive so they can succeed at work

0:40.6

and in life.

0:42.2

When Michael was the CEO of a 250 million dollar publishing

0:46.3

company, he worked non-stop. He felt like he couldn't keep up at work and be

0:51.8

present at home. In our conversation Michael shares the three commitments

0:56.8

he made that changed everything. If you are struggling to manage your workload, you won't want to miss Michael's advice for

1:04.4

focusing on the high leverage tasks so that you can do less and drive even better

1:09.5

results. I think you'll enjoy my conversation with Michael Hyatt.

1:14.0

Michael, welcome to the show.

1:16.0

Hey Derek, thanks for having me on.

1:18.0

I'm excited to have you with us today.

1:20.0

Michael, your work is not only thoughtful and relevant it is so practical.

1:25.0

Let's dive right in. First talk about the importance of what you call the

1:29.8

Daily Big Three.

1:31.6

Well this is, this came out of desperation of somebody who's easily distracted and who seemed to be, you know, there was a time of my life when I was so overwhelmed with the size of my task list. You know, I kind of bought into the idea that technology was going to make everything easier, allow us to have more free time,

1:58.0

and what I discovered was that my to-do list just kept growing until it was just out of control.

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