Your heart is the most important leadership tool you have. It is not your experience, knowledge, or skills. It is your heart. Here are three reasons why.

It's easy to become discouraged when wins come slowly. Don't be a victim of the myth of fun, fast, and easy. Here are five key actions to take when you are tempted to believe the lie.

Email is suboptimal for team communication and workflow. Slack is a new app that easily and organically coordinates conversations, files, and more.

Success has many determining factors, including dumb luck. But I’ve been thinking of one lately that’s largely indispensable and totally learnable—persistence.

I’ve been a serious student of productivity for a couple decades now. As the primary income earner in a family of seven, I had to be. When I first started in business, I lived in a constant state of feeling overwhelmed. Work took my best, and I struggled to find time for my family and […]

Many people who want to build an online business are reluctant to sell. They think it's self-promotional. Wrong. Here three reasons to sell with confidence.

We can't succeed on our own, but it's easy to undermine the people trying to help us. Here are the top 10-mistakes leaders make with their executive assistants.

If you Jeff Walker's new book, Launch, from Amazon today and forward him your email receipt, he will immediately send you these FREE GIFTS.

Big change in business is unavoidable. But there's a bad way and a good way to do it. Here are five steps for getting it right.

Inspirational Quotes to Share with Your Friends

We are a performance coaching company. We help high-achieving leaders and their teams get the vision, alignment, and execution they need to drive extraordinary results without compromising their most important values.

The following advice is from Michael Hyatt's newest release, Platform: Get Noticed in a Noisy World. The book is one of the most comprehensive guides on

Many successful people were nappers. In this post I share five key benefits of napping, along with five tips for maximizing the experience.

What resources do professional bloggers use? Here are the fifteen I use on a daily basis.

If you are *also* a little bit nosy about how other people plan—I think you're going to like this one! ;) Back by popular request, I'm taking you behind the scenes and showing you exactly how I set up my 2022 planner,—crazyyy that we're already talking about that!! I started using the Full Focus Planner

One of the ways I have learned to take control of my time is by planning My Ideal Week. I then use this as a template for planning each week.

We are a performance coaching company. We help high-achieving leaders and their teams get the vision, alignment, and execution they need to drive extraordinary results without compromising their most important values.

In Living Forward: A Proven Plan to Stop Drifting and Get the Life You Want, Michael Hyatt & Daniel Harkavy suggest that we define a plan for our lives. They introduce us to the concept of Life Planning and show us how to implement the process. What is a Life Plan? According to Hyatt and Harkavy, “A Life […]

Our culture pushes us to perceive scarcity instead of appreciate abundance. Here are three disciplines to foster gratitude in the face of outrageous abundance.

We all know about the benefits of sleep but sometimes still have trouble getting the rest we need. Here are six strategies to maximize your sleep at night.

If you want to get the maximum benefit out of Evernote, you need to establish a solid structure using stacks, notebooks, and tags. Here is how I do it.

I decided to change my email newsletter strategy last month. For years, I sent the entire blog post in the body of the email. We used a custom template that included many of the design elements from my blog. For a long time, that served us well. But we are no longer doing that. Instead, […]

Social Media Marketing Podcast 17: In this episode Michael Hyatt shares how to create content that people will love.

Whether you use a paper journal or the latest high-tech app, task management pretty much boils down to mastering a set of five practices.

The Weekly Review is an opportunity to review what you accomplished last week and what needs to be done in the next week. Here’s how I do it.

The following is a guest post by Greg Hickman. Greg is a blogger and podcaster that teaches people how to build a plan to leave their corporate jobs and work on their own terms. He shares his journey by leveraging his mobile marketing experience through a successful blog and podcast in his area of expertise, […]

Wishing for the success that others experience can lead us to tactics of imitation. But being a standout involves authentic representation, not impersonation.

Are you looking for the top leadership experts to follow in 2015? Maybe you need a leadership development expert or public speaker. Whether for yourself or your team, you'll find them here! If you know someone who should be included, leave a comment.

Melissa Helene, scratchboard artist and artist business coach, discusses goal setting in your artistic or creative business. Using the SMARTER goal setting framework developed by Michael Hyatt, Melissa discusses how to set goals that you will achieve in your art business.

Bloggers often ask me what metrics they should be tracking. It’s easy to get overwhelmed. These are the three I measure and recommend that you monitor.

What if you could measure yourself in the areas that matter most—so that you can create the life you want? With the LifeScore™ Assessment, now you can.

Yesterday, someone asked me if I had a list of all my blog posts I’d written on this topic. So I decided to pull together this list of all my posts, to make it easier for those who want to get up-to-speed fast.

My team and I have been using Slack as our primary communication platform since June 2014. As we grew, email became unmanageable and other solutions like Basecamp weren’t a fit. After a full-immersion trial, we were sold! But then we unsold ourselves. It took three years. But, just as email didn’t scale with our growth, […]

As a leader, it is easy to get sucked into high maintenance relationships. When this happens, you and your organization suffer. Here’s how to avoid this common pitfall.

Michael Hyatt wrote the book on platform-building — literally. I've been following his blog for years, but his newest book, Platform, distills his most important thoughts on publishing, marketing, and how to build a powerful audience online. For the longest time, I just nodded along, thinking, Yeah

I thought it would be cool to create an infographic for my new book, Platform: Get Noticed in a Noisy World. Thanks to Dave Whitlock of Principle Design for creating this for me. http://principledesign.com

Improve your productivity with the Full Focus Planner! Learn about its features and benefits and see what the planner has to offer in this comprehensive Full Focus planner review.

You need to have great content development on a regular basis to reel in your prospects. If you struggle with this, we're here to help.

When you experience an involuntary emotional response, it’s often a clue. You have stumbled onto something that will lead you to your destiny. Pay attention.

Social Media Marketing Podcast 191. In this episode Michael Hyatt and Brian Clark will explore why they removed comments and why comments are back.

Register for the Platform Conference by the end of the day today and take $150 off the published price. This is the premier event for anyone serious about getting their message out in today's noisy world.

This past year I have noticed how my vocabulary impacts my attitude. Words have power. They impact others, of course, but they can also have an impact on us. Here’s how.

What if I told you there was a way to host powerful, engaging, and inclusive conversations that removed any stress about having to perform?

Think you’re not a leader? Think again. According to guest poster Tammy Helfrich, everyone is a leader, including you. Here are five ways to embrace it.

Melissa Helene, scratchboard artist and artist business coach, discusses goal setting in your artistic or creative business. Using the SMARTER goal setting framework developed by Michael Hyatt, Melissa discusses how to set goals that you will achieve in your art business.

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.