Feb 8, 2023
My guest this week is Michael Hyatt, the founder and
chairman of Full Focus and the author of several bestselling books,
including Platform, Living Forward, Your Best Year Ever, Free
to Focus, The Vision Driven Leader, and his newest book (with
daughter Megan Hyatt Miller) Win at Work & Succeed at
Life. (Listen to my interview with Megan on last week’s
show!)
Michael has scaled multiple companies over the years,
including a $250M publishing company with 700+ employees and his
own goal-achievement company that has grown over 60% year over year
for the past 4 years.
Under his leadership, Full Focus has been featured in
the Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing companies in America for
three years in a row and in 2020 the company was named to Inc.’s
Best Work Places list.
4:27 – Michael 101
- He spent most of his career in book publishing and
has written about 20 books
- Michael has five daughters and 10 grandkids and
they all live within 20 minutes of each other.
- His granddaughter calls him “Gandhi.”
8:18 – Goal setting
- The role of imagination is so crucial in problem
solving and goal setting.
- People who are successful aren’t smarter than most
of us. They just tell themselves different stories about who they
are.
- They preserve the ability to imagine a bigger,
better future.
21:10 – Finding your imagination
- You need to identify your story, interrogate your
story and then tell a better story.
- You have to be conscious of your story. Because the
story that you’re telling yourself in your head becomes a
controlling narrative that limits the scope of what you think is
possible.
34:34 – Michael’s heart attack
- Michael considers himself a very healthy person,
but he had a heart attack while walking. He had to get quadruple
bypass heart surgery.
- Some people have heart attacks and think their life
is over, but others think their life has just begun.
- There are facts, and there is the meaning we assign
to the experience.
41:12 – More brains are better than one
- God created us to live in communities. We’re not
meant to be lone rangers.
- Left alone with our own thoughts can spiral
downward.
- One of the things that I think is so detrimental to
our creativity right now in our society is that social media is
facilitating more silos.
- Find people who think differently than you do. That
enriches our world.
50:20 – Get to know you
- Last thing that made him laugh? Something a nurse
said at his cardiac rehab session.
- Last time he cried? He can’t recall, but the older
he gets the more he cries.
FEATURED
QUOTES
People that have accomplished more than us, a lot of
times the only difference is they’re just telling themselves a
different story. They preserve the ability to imagine a bigger,
better future.
You have to be conscious of your story. Because the
story that you’re telling yourself in your head becomes a
controlling narrative that limits the scope of what you think is
possible.
There are facts, and there is the meaning we assign
to the experience.
God created us to live in communities. We’re not
meant to be lone rangers.
One of the things that I think is so detrimental to
our creativity right now in our society is that social media is
facilitating more silos.
https://fullfocus.co/rebrand/
http://mindyourmindsetbook.com/purpose