Personal Development Blog For Living Your Full Potential

By Leo Babauta There’s a ton to be gained by getting good at Getting Stuff Done (GSD). While I don’t think that productivity and efficiency is the answer to life, nor should it be your only focus … there are still a ton of benefits from Getting Stuff Done. A ton. Some of the benefits: You start accomplishing more You begin to believe in yourself more You waste less time procrastinating and distracting yourself You become more trustable — when you tell people you’re going to get stuff done, they believe you You become more hirable, as people love to hire someone who gets stuff done You are less held back by this dimension of your life, which will allow you to go deeper in other areas — understanding what’s important, being curious, playing, learning, making deep connections with people, retraining old mental patterns that are getting in the way, and more You start earning more You might be able to found a successful startup or create a great organization You might be able t...

They got sick of having to watch TV news in public, so they created a special pair of sunglasses that block out the droning screens around them. Hear The Good News Guru talk about the innovation (from the October 12, 2018 Ellen K. Morning Show on KOST-103.5 radio in Los Angeles). WATCH the video at Good News Network… The post Hating the Sight of Bad News on Public TVs Everywhere, Designer Makes Glasses That Black Out Screens (Podcast) appeared first on Good News Network .

Collaborative workspaces are becoming more common, but productivity suffers when teams don’t have the environment they need to communicate and collaborate effectively. In this episode, we show you how to create the perfect hybrid workspace by incorporating four essential elements of team collaboration. We also take you behind the scenes for a guided tour of our coworking workspace at Michael Hyatt & Company.

Taking Offices to the Next Level “We really need an office space for our team.” It’s not something I ever expected to hear from our COO, Megan Hyatt Miller. After all, she loved working from home as much as any of us. I had recently stepped out of my role as Michael Hyatt’s Executive Assistant into the new role of Senior Director of Operations when she approached us with the idea. The team was growing rapidly. We were having to make big decisions daily about what kind of culture we wanted to create as we scaled up, from benefits to communications. My first response was not positive. Michael had originally envisioned an exclusively remote workforce for our team and that’s what I had signed on for. Like many who leave the corporate world, I’d had a grueling experience practically living in an office. I had also fallen in love with the freedom and margin that working from home produced. I just couldn’t imagine going back to a stuffy office lifestyle, so when Megan pushed for this, I p...

How We Use Asana for Agile Project Management Michael Hyatt & Co. recently landed on the Inc 5000 list of the fastest growing private companies in America for the second year in a row. That’s a huge honor, and it represents how fast our team of high-achievers moves from one project to the next. Managing a team of high-achievers in a high-growth company takes a balanced approach to leadership. You need high-level strategy, but you also need an effective system for keeping up with details while your team works “in the weeds.” As the company has grown, so has our team—we now have more than 30 full-time employees across a half-dozen departments. This year, we hit a breaking point where we realized that “What got us here won’t get us there” and we restructured our entire collaboration and project management approach, company-wide. Why we chose Asana Before making any radical changes, we formed a project management taskforce, including one or two members from each team, and mad...

Ask the Right Questions, Avoid the Wrong Pitfalls Having your files stored in the cloud is one of the most powerful tools in your business when it’s done right. If not, you’ll find yourself and your team spending unreasonable amounts of time tracking things down. As with most teams that I work with, Michael Hyatt & Co was growing fast when they reached out for help organizing their file system. It still is. The big question for them was, “Which platform do we use? We have files on Dropbox, Google Drive, Box.com, and should we use OneDrive?” Take a beat to ask better questions This is the question most people start out with. What platform should I use? What’s the best tool? This is a valid question, but it’s by no means the most important question. Each tool exists for a specific set of needs. If you’ve been following Michael for any length of time, you know specializing is your biggest strength even though some tools generalize to fit every possible need out there. For Michae...

By Leo Babauta Our lives are overfull. There’s not a single one of us who is free of that trap, in my experience. We say yes to invitations and commitments, we answer as many emails and messages as we can, we join courses and groups, buy books and take on new hobbies, get involved in new relationships and buy more stuff. The result of this tendency to overfill is predictable: We spend too much money and get into too much debt, and then have too much clutter. We are always busy and always feel like we’re behind on everything. We don’t have time for what’s really important — relationships, meaningful work, solitude and silence, taking care of ourselves. We can’t really fulfill all of our commitments because we have too much going on. We use full lives to distract ourselves from being fully present. It’s understandable that we overfill our lives — we are usually acting on desires, and not giving full contemplation to what we want in our lives and what we don’t want. ‘You can’...