About Michael Hyatt

Your know that your emotions have a tangible impact on your results. But what can you do when you find yourself in a funk? Here are three suggestions.

I love reading books on leadership. But as helpful as these are, they are not the same as doing something together with a team. Here are seven lessons I learned about leadership from a low ropes course.

Are you feeling overwhelmed by the sheer volume of tasks and assignments you have? Here are six steps you can take now.

In this short video, a classical violist is interrupted by the ring of a cell phone in the audience. Notice how he turns an obstacle into an opportunity.

I have been using a virtual assistant now for nine months. It has been a great solution for me. Here’s how it has worked.

Sometimes, success is simply a matter of making a little extra effort. When you do, it becomes the difference between success and failure.

Questions are powerful tools. They can ignite hope and lead to new insights. They can also destroy hope and keep us struck in bad assumptions.

A clearly written goal is not enough. A carefully thought out action plan isn’t either. You need one additional ingredient.

Do you know what your top five strengths are? Here’s why it’s important and how you can be more productive and achieve greater happiness in your job.

Unity is an attribute of hIghly effective teams. Unfortunately, many leaders think they have it when they don’t. Here are 5 steps toward creating it.

You have have more power than you sometimes give yourself credit for. Here are five ways to express it and become an everyday hero.

I grew my email list from 2,771 subscribers to 30,855 subscribers in 9 months. In this post i share the 7 strategies I used.

As a writer, I spend a lot of hours in front of my computer. When I started to experience some back pain, I thought I needed a new chair. I discovered the problem was in the sitting itself.

Yesterday, I described the ideal employee candidate as humble, honest, hungry, and smart. Here are 25 questions to ask the candidate in the first interview to see if he or she has what it takes.

The key to delivering an effective presentation is in the preparation. However, this takes more than preparing the speech. There are at least seven levels of preparation.

Sure you enjoy blogging, but wouldn’t it be cool if you could make some money from all the effort. You can! Here are three methods.

If you are working hard to change your behavior and not seeing much progress, maybe it is because you are the victim of a bad story—one you can change. Here’s how.

Yesterday, I had my first root canal. I expected the worst. Thanks to the endodontist who performed the procedure, it was a non-event, In the process, he demonstrated six leadership skills that apply to all of us.

Most people won’t change course until something traumatic happens that gets their attention. It happened to me.

Some people drift through life without a plan. Others end up living someone else’s dream. You can avoid this unfortunate end by answering these three questions.

Many people wake up in their 40s, 50s, or 60s and wonder why they are so far from where they thought they would be. They are victims of the drift. Here’s how to get back on track.

I have always been fascinated by the power of incremental change over time. In this post, I provide a personal challenge and seven examples.

Feeling overwhelmed by administrative detail? No time left to give to your most important tasks? Maybe it’s time to consider a part-time, virtual assistant.

I created my first life plan more than ten years ago. Since that time I have gotten better at it. In this post, I share seven “best practices.” I shared these recently at the Building Champions Experience.