🔥 Introduction to Your Best Year Ever

Author: Michael Hyatt
Subtitle: A Five-Step Plan for Achieving Your Most Important Goals
Published: 2018
Big Idea:
Most people fail to reach their goals not because they’re lazy — but because they’re stuck in limiting beliefs, vague ambitions, or systems that don’t support progress. This book gives you a repeatable, five-step method to break throughyour past and build a future that’s aligned, measurable, and truly inspiring.

"You can design a life you love — and it starts with the way you set your goals."

🧠 What You’ll Learn

Michael Hyatt combines neuroscience, positive psychology, and personal development into a simple five-step framework:

🔹 1. Believe the Possibility

Learn to overcome limiting beliefs that sabotage progress.
You’ll challenge your inner narrative and replace it with possibility thinking.

🔹 2. Complete the Past

You’ll reflect on the previous year with intention — celebrating wins, processing setbacks, and creating closure so you don’t carry emotional baggage into your next chapter.

🔹 3. Design Your Future

This is about intentionally choosing what matters. You’ll learn to set 7–10 powerful, well-rounded goals using the SMARTER framework (Specific, Measurable, Actionable, Risky, Time-keyed, Exciting, Relevant).

🔹 4. Find Your Why

Hyatt shows you how to tap into deep emotional drivers for each goal, so you stay inspired long after your motivation fades.

🔹 5. Make It Happen

Finally, you’ll put systems in place — like habit stacking, scheduling, and accountability — to make your best year ever not just a hope, but a result.

🎯 Who This Book Is For

• Professionals and creatives who feel stuck in autopilot

• Entrepreneurs and leaders looking to reset their direction

• Anyone tired of setting goals that fizzle out after January

• People who want both achievement and alignment — not hustle for hustle’s sake

💡 Favorite Quotes:

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
“We don’t drift to destinations we would have chosen.”
“A goal properly set is halfway reached.”

🛠 Tools + Extras:

• Worksheets and reflection prompts

• Access to Hyatt’s Goal-Setting Quickstart guide

• Goal templates using the SMARTER method

• Weekly review frameworks for tracking momentum