Top 4 Insights on Personal Growth
What do you want to do in your life? How do you plan to achieve your most important goals right now? These are the questions that drive Michael Hyatt’s latest book. Your Best Year Ever offers a life assessment to review areas of priority for your personal growth. Self-awareness is vital to the journey toward getting better. Also, Hyatt offers a five step process to enable you to achieve your goals with greater success than before:
- Believe the Possibility
- Complete the Past
- Design your Future
- Find your Why
- Make It Happen
“One intentional choice at a time, you make the world around you better.” – Michael Hyatt
Like many of the books Michael Hyatt has written, he prescribes practical advice and clear actions that stack the content of this book. Throughout the book, he also encourages you to move at the pace you need in the direction toward success. Here are my top four insights:
#1 – Opportunity – Possibility is grounded in belief and mindset.
- Your attitude, thoughts, beliefs, expectations, and mindset greatly impact how you approach life and your actions toward living
- Are your thoughts limiting you or liberating you?
- Take time for self-reflection to identify your limiting beliefs and replace them with liberating truths
- Is your mindset a:
- Growth mindset? (from a thinking of abundance)
- Fixed mindset? (from a thinking of scarcity)
- Changing your mindset helps you change your life
“You already have what it takes to move the needle in your life.” – Michael Hyatt
#2 Connection – Both your past and your future inter-connect by your understanding and self-acceptance.
- Your past experience can provide valuable lessons to carry you forward
- Be mindful of regrets that need healing before moving ahead
- Reflect on changes you need to make in your life
- Allow gratitude to wash over you for where you have been in life, where you are right now, and where you want to go
- Gratitude is the fuel for your soul and inner drive
- Gratitude broadens your growth mindset
- Opportunities for the future are discovered in this overall personal reflection and commitment to change
“Gratitude has the potential to amplify everything good in our lives.” – Michael Hyatt
#3 The Value of Why – Why is one of the most important questions you can answer.
- What is your reason for doing what you want? Why?
- Answering why:
- Is your motivation
- Connects you to your purpose
- Helps you prioritize what is important in your life
- Keeps you focused on your goals
“People lose their way when they lose their why.” – Michael Hyatt
#4 Alacrity – Actions are the stamp of credibility on your goals.
- Doing is more important than talking about your goals
- Actions connect your walk with your talk
- Actions are the concrete expression of your commitment to your goals
- Think of actions as your intentions with sneakers on them
“Never leave the scene of clarity without taking decisive action.” – Michael Hyatt
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