Prepare Now to Have Your Best Year Ever
The Art of Manliness
The Art of Manliness
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🗓️ 8 December 2021
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
How did your 2021 go? Did you accomplish less than you wanted to? Are you hoping to have a more successful run at your goals in 2022?
Well my guest today has got your plan for making the coming twelve months your best year ever. His name is Michael Hyatt, and he's the CEO of the leadership consulting firm Michael Hyatt and Company and the author/creator of the Your Best Year Ever book and course. Today on the show, Michael takes us through the five-part process he believes is key for successfully making and keeping goals, starting with the importance of adopting the right mindset and doing an after-action review of how the previous year went. We then discuss how Michael has modified the standard SMART goal model to make it smarter, why your goals should feel risky, and the number of goals you should set per year. We then discuss how to stay motivated in working on your goals, whether or not you should share your goals with others, and why you should tackle your goals by doing the easy stuff first. We end our conversation with the importance of reviewing your goals on the regular.
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| 0:00.0 | We're at McKay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness Podcast. |
| 0:10.6 | Now how did your 2021 go? |
| 0:12.0 | Do you accomplish less than you wanted to? |
| 0:13.8 | Are you hoping to have a more successful run at your goals in 2022? |
| 0:16.8 | My guest today has got your plan for making the coming 12 months your best year ever. |
| 0:21.2 | Stay with Michael Hyatt and he's the CEO of the Leadership Consulting for Michael Hyatt |
| 0:24.8 | and Company and the author and creator of your best year ever book and course. |
| 0:28.2 | Today on the show Michael takes us through the five part process he believes is key for successfully |
| 0:32.2 | making and keeping goals starting with the importance of adopting the right mindset |
| 0:35.6 | and doing an after action review of how the previous year went. |
| 0:38.5 | We then discuss how Michael has modified the standard smart goal model to make them smarter |
| 0:42.4 | while your goal should feel risky and the number of goals you should set per year. |
| 0:45.8 | We then discuss how to stay motivated and working on your goals throughout the year, |
| 0:48.8 | whether or not you should share your goals with others and why you should tackle your goals |
| 0:51.6 | by doing the easy stuff first. |
| 0:53.2 | We enter conversation with the importance of reviewing your goals on the regular. |
| 0:56.5 | After shows over check out our show notes at aam.is slash best year ever. |
| 1:14.3 | Michael Hyatt, welcome to the show. |
| 1:16.3 | Thanks Brett, good to be with you. |
| 1:18.0 | So you've had an interesting career. The first half of your career, you were a CEO of a multi-million dollar |
| 1:23.0 | publishing company and in your second act of your career, you've turned into a teacher. |
| 1:28.6 | You are teaching individuals, organizations, how to be better leaders, how to be more productive, |
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