Your Best Year Ever
by Michael Hyatt
This is a five-step goal system (believe, complete the past, design the future, find your why, make it happen) with an emphasis on reviewing last year before planning the next. The 'after-action review' and the sweet spot between comfort and delusion are the most useful parts. It is polished and slightly corporate.
Read it if…
you want an annual planning process you can repeat every December with a notebook.
Skip it if…
you prefer loose, organic goal-setting; this is structured almost to a fault.
Three things you will actually use
- Review the past year honestly before planning the next.
- Set seven to ten goals across life domains, not just work.
- Attach a 'why' strong enough to survive February.
Do this first
Write what went well, what did not and what you learned from the past twelve months before setting anything new.
Our verdict
A dependable yearly ritual in book form; best read in the last week of December.
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