Spring Clean Your Life

Focus on This

Michael Hyatt

Timemanagement, Productivity, Organization, Planning, Achievement, Education, Worklifebalance, Business, Michaelhyatt, Focus, Goals

4.6 • 627 Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

We all know how to declutter a closet—but what about decluttering our to-do lists, calendars, opportunities, and even relationships? In this episode, Marissa Hyatt and Ken Freire share the power of the Not-To-Do List and how subtracting things from your life can make space for what truly matters.

Key Takeaways

Some Tasks Should Have Been Retired Years Ago. Are you still doing things out of habit that no longer serve a purpose? It’s time for a reality check.
Meetings Are the Biggest Time Thieves. Most recurring meetings don’t need to exist—or at the very least, they need a serious time limit.
Who’s in Your Inner Circle? You’re the average of the five people you spend the most time with—so choose wisely.
Not Every Opportunity is Meant for You. Just because you can say yes doesn’t mean you should. (Marissa shares why she had to say no to a dream trip.)
Decluttering Creates Space for What Matters. This isn’t about doing less—it’s about making room for the things that actually move the needle.

Resources

Watch on YouTube at: https://youtu.be/VeP-bC3H4Bs

This episode was produced by Sarah Vorhees Wendel of VW Sound

Transcript

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0:00.0	Marissa, it's finally March.
0:03.3	I know. How much it March?
0:05.9	You know what that means?
0:06.8	No. What does it mean?
0:07.9	It means it's spring.
0:09.7	Yes.
0:10.9	All the rain here in Nashville and Minnesota, that means more snow.
0:17.4	But what it does mean for a lot of people is spring cleaning.
0:21.0	Yes.
0:21.9	So I got to ask you, Marissa, what is the most unexpected thing you have ever rediscovered while spring cleaning?
0:28.4	Oh, my gosh.
0:29.8	I don't know about unexpected, but I have found in years past where I had these boxes that I used to keep my notes in from like middle
0:41.9	and high school. It is so fun to read through those and that's kind of a fun little unexpected
0:50.4	treat. Yeah, that's great. You're so sentimental to find those things. For me, one time,
0:57.7	we were going to buy my wife a road bike or like a triathlon bike. She used to do triathlons.
1:03.7	And we were going to buy it used. We ended up getting ready to buy it and the person gave it to us
1:07.9	for free. They were just like, they love my wife's store and they just hooked us up with it.
1:12.1	I'm like, oh, that's awesome.
1:13.2	So I saved like 300 bucks, right?
1:15.8	We were going to go somewhere with a friend at same time when we picked it up.
1:19.0	So I took the $300 and I couldn't quite remember where I put it.
1:23.1	So then the next day, my wife's like, hey, where's the $300? And I'm like, I think they're in my pant pocket.
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