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Find out more at lead to dot win slash quick win. 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'll 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 going to be back soon. But today we're going to solve a

problem that most high achievers face, and that is having your

weak 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, boy that really did describe me in a lot of weeks,

really before I came to Michael Heighing 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 going to hold up for five days.

It's really true.

And I can 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 on my week.

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