Living Forward
by Michael Hyatt and Daniel Harkavy
Living Forward asks you to write a life plan in one day: your legacy, your priorities, your action plans. The book is short and the exercise is long, and the authors are right that most people plan a vacation more carefully than a decade. The eulogy exercise at the start is uncomfortable and effective.
Read it if…
you feel like life is happening to you and want one deliberate day to change that.
Skip it if…
you want detail on execution; the book is about direction and leaves the daily system to other books.
Three things you will actually use
- Write how you want to be remembered, then work backward.
- Rank your life accounts and notice which are overdrawn.
- Review the plan weekly, revise quarterly.
Do this first
Block a full day in the next month, phone off, and write the plan the book describes.
Our verdict
A one-day retreat in paperback; brief, serious and worth doing once.
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