Your Best Year Ever: A 5-Step Plan for Achieving Your Most Important Goals

Goal achievement is pretty important to keep me energized. I read this when it first came out and every year I come back to it as I have found this is a great reference guide.In addition to the great ideas here, Michael Hyatt is very accessible through his weekly podcast. In addition, he offers the Full Focus Planner which is truly where I manage my gameplan to win the best I can each year.I highly recommend this to anyone who wants to win big - or at least start out small.

This is my second time reading this book, and I seldom repeat a read. This time I had more opportunity to digest the contents at the same time that I was doing a strategic review of last year and planning for this year. It proved valuable as I was able to directly apply the 5 steps while progressing through my planning. It just might be my Best Year Ever. That’s certainly my intent.

I read this book back to back while on holiday. My list of goals started to take shape, and I needed to be able to write them down and begin to make them a reality. I jotted out a list of 12 in a small notebook. When I returned home, I sat down and designed my BIG goals and everything around them into a Notion template. I showed it to my family and friends. They wanted to do the same so I shared the template with them. If you'd like to create your S.M.A.R.T.E.R goals and have Your Best Year Ever, then this is for you ❤️https://bit.ly/3kab9AV

For those who want to recalibrate their own sets of standards, believes and strategies to most accurate and absolute standards set by highly regarded professionals.

Very short read with lots of filler and worksheets at the end but it did offer some new ideas about goal setting and was only $2.

This book offers tons of great information an interesting ideas of how to better position yourself for success. Definitely worth reading.“Committing your goals to writing is not the end game. But it is foundational for success for at least five reasons. First, it forces you to clarify what you want. Imagine setting out on a trip with no particular destination in mind. How do you pack? What roads do you take? How do you know when you have arrived? Instead, you start by picking a destination. Clarity is a precondition for writing. (Ask any author suffering writer’s block; they can’t write because they’re unsure what they’re trying to say.) Second, writing down goals helps you overcome resistance. When we go to the trouble of formulating and recording our goals, we’re doing more than dreaming. We’re also engaging our intellect. We’re processing, self-checking, and analyzing. Every meaningful intention, dream, or goal encounters resistance. From the moment you set a goal, you will begin to feel it. But this emotional and intellectual engagement helps us identify deeply with our goals and forge resolve around our desires. I’ll focus on this later in Step 4. Third, it motivates you to take action. Writing your goals down is only the beginning. Articulating your intention is important, but it is not enough. You must execute your goals. You have to take action. I have found that writing down my goals and reviewing them regularly provokes me to take the next most important action. Fourth, it filters other opportunities. The more successful you become, the more you will be deluged with opportunities.”Will definitely read again

I am thrilled for Michael’s new book. I have read both Platform and Living Forward and was thrilled when he announced he would be sharing his Best Year Ever content in book format. What I love about this book is the simple, actionable step by step process Michael walks you through to accomplish your goals. I highly recommend this book because I believe it will help you identify, define and achieve the goals you have set for the next year.If that isn’t enough of a recommendation for you to order this book right now here are a few of the benefits I have gotten from this book already.1. Michael is clear with his approach. He does a great job of making clear what and how you can take action on the step by step process he lays out.2. He uses practical and current examples. I love that this book comes after tens of thousands of people have gone through his online course enabling him to use examples from alumni that apply practically to real world situations.3. Nothing is oversimplified or sugar-coated. For me acknowledging struggles will happen along the way is key to having the persistence to continue. Then connecting that to the fact that failing doesn’t mean I can never do it, it is simply an opportunity to learn what I need to change to succeed.4. Helping you find your motivation. Michael helps define how to find your motivation and how to tap into applying it to your situation to maximize your success. This is vital in moving from simply writing down goals to taking action on the goals you hold most valuable for the upcoming year!If you have been looking for a book to help you move the mark and succeed at what is most important to you in work, family and life this is it. Applying the process and using the templates in this book will help you move from thinking about what you want to do to getting it done. I hope you will enjoy it as much as I am.

You can never go wrong with this book. Very practical and filled with tools to help you experience your best year ever if you are disciplined to apply all the lessons.

I loved this vook on becoming a better version of ourselves and the coaching mentoring guidance tips in this book is enriched with lots of information going about how to be a new self.I will definitely recommended this book and definitely I will be rereading it again very soon. Best wishes Sean

I enjoyed reading this well thought out approach for goal setting for the year ahead. The book is not only about setting the goals themselves but also about the thought process for defining the desired outcome and then setting what he calls a “SMARTER” goal. I really liked the fact that Michael Hyatt emphasises the importance of a holistic approach and goal setting across all facets of life and also provides a multitude of tangible examples of how to do it and tonnes of research to back up his methodology. Brilliant resource!

Michael Hyatt makes a good job of explaining why goal setting is important for personal development. He then sets out strategies of daily weekly and quarterly reviews to ensure the positive intentions have the best chance of success.

Somewhat motivating, well structured, useful summaries at the end of chapters. Doesn’t put rocket fuel up me but is definitely food for thought.

If you cut all the anecdotes out of this book you'd be left with a wee booklet of rehashed content. Not impressed at all.