The Double Win

In this chapter, Michael talks about the importance of embracing risk and stepping outside your comfort zone to achieve extraordinary results. He debunks the myth that setting ambitious goals is always risky and highlights the positive impact of goal setting on performance. This is just one chapter from Michael's newly-revised, best-selling book. Over the next month, we'll be releasing a few chapt...

This is the seventh chapter from Michael's revised and updated best-selling book,  Your Best Year Ever . Over the next few weeks, we'll be releasing a few chapters a week so that you can be prepared for 2024 to be  your  Best Year Ever. If you want to read or listen to the entire book today, then visit  www.yourbestyeareverbook.com  and pick up a copy. After buying the book, make sure to sign up f...

This is the first episode with Michael and Megan of a five-part series that is designed to close out 2023 and prepare for 2024. Come back every Tuesday to get the new year started on the right foot. In this episode, Michael and Megan dive deep into the power of gratitude as a catalyst for achieving both personal and professional goals. They'll show you how gratitude can transform your perspective,...

This is the fourth chapter from Michael's revised and updated best-selling book,  Your Best Year Ever . Over the next month, we'll be releasing a few chapters a week so that you can be prepared for 2024 to be  your  Best Year Ever. If you want to read or listen to the entire book today, then visit  www.yourbestyeareverbook.com  and pick up a copy. After buying the book, make sure to sign up for yo...

The fifth chapter of Your Best Year Ever focuses on the transformative power of gratitude and how it can positively impact goal achievement and personal growth. Reminder that this is the fifth chapter in Michael Hyatt's revised and updated best-selling book,  Your Best Year Ever . Over the next month, we'll be releasing a few chapters a week so that you can be prepared for 2024 to be  your  Best Y...

Michael talks about the very real impact of gratitude on goal achievement from the sixth chapter in his newly-revised best-selling book, Your Best Year Ever . Over the next month, we'll be releasing a few chapters a week so that you can be prepared for 2024 to be  your  Best Year Ever. If you want to read or listen to the entire book today, then visit  www.yourbestyeareverbook.com  and pick up a c...

This episode is the first chapter from Michael's revised and updated best-selling book, Your Best Year Ever . Over the next month, we'll be releasing a few chapters a week so that you can be prepared for 2024 to be your Best Year Ever. If you want to read or listen to the entire book today, then visit www.yourbestyeareverbook.com and pick up a copy. After buying the book, make sure to sign up for...

In this chapter of Your Best Year Ever , Michael talks about your ability to change your limiting beliefs into powerful liberating truths which can lead you to incredible personal growth. Reminder that this is the third chapter in Michael Hyatt's revised and updated best-selling book,  Your Best Year Ever . Over the next month, we'll be releasing a few chapters a week so that you can be prepared f...

The second chapter of Your Best Year Ever explores the contrast between scarcity and abundance mindsets and illustrates how our beliefs can either limit or empower us. Reminder that this is the second chapter in Michael Hyatt's revised and updated best-selling book, Your Best Year Ever . Over the next month, we'll be releasing a few chapters a week so that you can be prepared for 2024 to be  your...

Are you ready to lead your company into the future with confidence and foresight? Today, we're bringing you an episode of Knownwell's new podcast, AI Knowhow , to help you unravel all of the potential mysteries of adapting to our new AI era.  First, Host Courtney Baker is joined by Knownwell executives David DeWolf and Mohan Rao to talk about how to assess your organization's readiness for AI tran...

High achievers have a bad habit of working too much and all of that extra time comes with a very real cost and, unfortunately, sometimes we don't notice that cost until it's too late. In this episode, Michael has a very honest conversation with Gail, his wife of (almost) 44 years. They discuss the very real cost that the first half of Michael's professional life had on his physical health, his chi...

There is no position that is more important for a successful business owner than finding a world-class Executive Assistant. But, despite this simple fact, many leaders and business owners either don't have an EA or they don't use their EA effectively. Today, Megan and Michael discuss three essential tasks that an Executive Assistant can do for you. These tasks might seem small, but they create cri...

You know you need to make a plan for the company’s next year, but you feel a familiar sense of dread. Every year, it results in a giant, convoluted binder that is inevitably pushed to the back of the shelf three months in. How do you plan more strategically, so you end up with something that actually works? Is there a better way to set the company up for the future you want?  In this episode, Mega...

Everybody likes to win. As a business leader, winning probably includes successfully guiding your team into a profitable quarter. Here at Full Focus, we believe in the Double Win where you win at work  and  succeed at life. But, it's important to know that one of the best ways for a business owner to win is for their employees to win. If all of your employees are winning in their jobs, then the co...

As a business owner, you likely want to grow your business. But where do you start? In this episode, Michael Hyatt and Megan Hyatt Miller walk you through their take on the Ansoff Matrix - a strategic planning tool that was specifically designed to help business owners and executive teams make informed decisions about how they want to achieve growth. The tool is powerful because it clarifies a wor...

As a business owner, before you can take your business from where it is to where you want to go, you first have to understand what that next step actually looks like. While we can talk endlessly about some of the external features of a business that is scaling up, we believe that the best way to understand the size of a business is through the type of leadership that each stage requires. In today'...

One habit can push away almost every business opportunity, professional connection, and potential ally. It's negativity. So many people have made a habit out of being negative that it often gets overlooked as an area for personal growth and professional improvement. But, the truth is that the people around you notice it and, almost without fail, it is hurting the relationships that you need the mo...

It can be easier and more comfortable to spot the entitlement we see in others, but much more difficult to name it in ourselves. And often, when there’s an entitlement issue within our organization, it’s a top-down problem that needs to be addressed.  In this episode, Megan and Michael walk through five areas of entitlement that can creep up in all of us, and how rooting them out helps create a cu...

"How can I scale my business without expanding my team?" That's a question that most business owners have undoubtedly asked themselves. We're told to believe that a bigger team means more possibilities, more profits, more potential, but what if that isn't true? In this episode, Michael and Megan discuss the value of having a smaller, more nimble team. They also shed light on a key secret that busi...

We live in a society of "more is better". The argument goes that a big business is obviously better than a small one. But, is that actually true? What if you could actually achieve more with less? On this episode, Joel Miller speaks with Leidy Klotz about his book, Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less. Leidy shares the subtle yet powerful biological and psychological reasons behind our 'addition...

The idea of "firing" a client can be very scary for a business owner. After all, the whole point of owning and running a business is to maximize the amount of money coming in the door! However, as you'll hear in today's episode, firing a client can be just the decision that allows your business to thrive. In this episode, Michael and Megan use their experiences running companies to reveal the four...

Summer is fast approaching and that means that it's time to start finalizing those vacation plans. Yes, you read that right: you need to take a vacation. Even though this may sound counterintuitive, your business needs you to take take off so that you can be rested, excited, and engaged while you're in the office. On top of that, those processes that you put in place so that you can actually take...

So many business owners get caught up in the day-to-day, putting out fires rather than doing the work they love. What if this turned around? What if you could do parts of your job that you love and leave the rest to others? And, what if after all of that, you could watch your business grow? What if the business could run without you showing up for work at all? These don't have to be hypothetical q...

“Meetings are the worst.” We've all said that at one point in time. Perhaps you even own the “I survived another meeting” coffee mug! People's complaints usually center on the idea that meetings are long, boring, and not even that useful for you or your organization. But what if meetings themselves are actually good? As a leader, how can you make sure that your meetings are productive and efficien...

Providing effective feedback is one of the most important skills that a leader needs to possess. Throughout your day, whether you realize it or not, many of your interactions are going to be about providing the actionable feedback that others need to help grow the business. In this episode, Joel Miller walks through two different forms of communication: feedback that you give to others and feedbac...