Michael Hyatt on the Importance of Morning Routines, Scheduling and Journaling
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
Erik Fisher
4.5 • 877 Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2012
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
This week I’m joined by Michael Hyatt, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author of Platform: Get Noticed in a Noisy World. He is also the former Chairman and CEO of Thomas Nelson Publishers, the seventh largest trade book publishing company in the U.S. He is also a very influential blogger at MichaelHyatt.com, and podcaster with his show This Is Your Life.
Covered in this episode:
- Start your day doing nothing?
- Benefits of Journaling
- Day One Journaling App – Mac
- Day One Journaling App – iOS
- Margin
- Designing your ‘Ideal Week’
- Scheduling time to build your Platform
- Having a ‘hard stop’ to the day
- Articulate your priorities
- Being stuck
- Getting distracted by gadgets
- Unplugging from Technology
- Digital Detox
- Startupizer
- Hootsuite
- Fluid App
- Evernote
- Evernote Training: Become An Evernote Master
- Workflowy
- Keynote
- Byword Mac
- Byword iOS
- Pathfinder
- Michael’s Annual Time Block Tool
- Bufferapp
- Downcast
- Martha Beck – The Joy Diet
- Smart Passive Income
- Your Move with Andy Stanley
- Dan Miller – 48 Days To The Work You Love
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| 0:00.0 | When you're hiring for your small business, you want to find quality professionals that are right for the role. |
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| 0:24.2 | LinkedIn helps you hire professionals you can't find anywhere else because even those who |
| 0:28.3 | aren't actively searching for a new job might be open to the perfect role that you have. |
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| 0:38.3 | So if you're not looking on LinkedIn, you're looking in the wrong place. |
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| 1:04.6 | Post your job for free at LinkedIn.com. |
| 1:06.6 | That's LinkedIn.com. |
| 1:09.6 | referral to post your job for free. Hello. Hello and welcome to Beyond the To Do List, the podcast where we talk about |
| 1:40.2 | personal productivity perspectives and boy do I have a great interview |
| 1:45.2 | for you today we've got some great personal productivity perspectives from |
| 1:49.4 | none other than Michael Hyatt yes that Michael Hyatt you don't know who he is? Well, check out Michael Hyatt |
| 1:55.9 | dot com, then come right back here and listen to the episode. I guarantee you will |
| 1:59.8 | subscribe to his podcast, This is Your your life as well as his blog now that said I've been |
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