Michael Hyatt on the Importance of Morning Routines, Scheduling and Journaling
Platform builder Michael Hyatt shares the importance of morning routines, journaling, and scheduling.
This week I’m joined by Michael Hyatt, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author of Platform: Get Noticed in a Noisy World. He is also the former Chairman and CEO of Thomas Nelson Publishers, the seventh largest trade book publishing company in the U.S. He is also a very influential blogger at MichaelHyatt.com, and podcaster with his show This Is Your Life.
Covered in this episode:
- Start your day doing nothing?
- Benefits of Journaling
- Day One Journaling App – Mac
- Day One Journaling App – iOS
- Margin
- Designing your ‘Ideal Week’
- Scheduling time to build your Platform
- Having a ‘hard stop’ to the day
- Articulate your priorities
- Being stuck
- Getting distracted by gadgets
- This Is Your Life – What The Internet Has Been Doing To Our Brains
- Unplugging from Technology
- Digital Detox
- Startupizer
- Hootsuite
- Fluid App
- Evernote
- Evernote Training: Become An Evernote Master
- Workflowy
- Keynote
- Byword Mac
- Byword iOS
- Pathfinder
- Michael’s Annual Time Block Tool
- Bufferapp
- Downcast
- Martha Beck – The Joy Diet
What gets scheduled is what gets done. - @MichaelHyattClick To Tweet
Michael’s Go To Podcasts
- Podcast Answer Man
- EntreLeadership
- Smart Passive Income
- Your Move with Andy Stanley
- Dan Miller – 48 Days To The Work You Love
- Make sure to grab Shortcasts from Beyond The To-Do List by Blinkist. A Shortcast is a 7-10 min version of a podcast where you get the core takeaways.
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