About Michael Hyatt

What resources do professional bloggers use? Here are the fifteen I use on a daily basis.

Earlier this month, my wife Gail and I took a two-week vacation. We unplugged from e-mail and social media. Here’s what we experienced.

I’ve had more than twenty bosses in my career. I worked well with nearly all of them. But surprisingly, I learned the most from the worst ones. Here are a few of the lessons.

I just started journaling a few weeks ago. So far, I have loved it. I have experienced seven benefits from the practice.

Adultery is not normal. It certainly isn’t inevitable. But in order to avoid falling, we must be intentional about protecting our marriages.

But it is really possible to get caught up on your email and stay caught up? Yes. I’ve done so for years, even as the demands of my job have increased. I’m not bragging; it’s just a fact. But I should warn you: there is no easy fix. Taking control of your inbox means changing your behavior. You must be willing to make the investment.

I face a dragon named Lethargy every morning. It has three heads: spiritual, physical, and intellectual. If I don’t slay this dragon before breakfast, he usually gets the best of me.

Not everyone thinks it is important to respond quickly to email. How do you get them to respond to you in a timely manner? Here are ten strategies.

The last five weeks have been incredibly busy for me. Honestly, it has been overwhelming. Here are the seven steps I am taking to regain some margin.

Bloggers often ask me what metrics they should be tracking. It’s easy to get overwhelmed. These are the three I measure and recommend that you monitor.

At some point, you have to stop procrastinating and launch. The easiest way to do so is to embrace the strategy of “permanent beta.” Here’s how.

I have fired off my share of angry letters and e-mail. Honestly, I cannot think of a single time when these communiques had a positive effect. Here are six steps you can take when you are tempted.

When I talk about building a home base for your platform, people naturally assume I’m referencing a blog. But this is only one possibility. Your home base could just as easily be a podcast or vlog (i.e., a video blog). As I explain in my book, Platform, the key attribute of a home base is […]

When times are tough, vision is the first casualty. Before conditions can improve, it is the first thing we must recover.

Most people’s frustration at work is inflicted by their supervisors. Here are four specific ways they do so. Are you guilty?

The new marketing is about building relationships. It includes authenticity, generosity, and story-telling.

I seem to be always living in the future. I’m either planning my next big project or worried about how it’s will turn out. But all I really have is now. This moment is a gift. Maybe that’s why it’s called “the present.”

Do you ever feel like you are running out of bandwidth? Maybe it’s time to take a hard look at your calendar and start cutting back on your commitments. Here’s how.

The secret to change is the willingness to accept responsibility for our choices. Once we do that, anything becomes possible.

What programs do you automatically run when you startup your computer? In this post, I share my favorites—eighteen in all.

A few years ago, I had breakfast with an old college roommate. We hadn’t seen each other in twenty-two years. To my surprise—and delight—he looked almost exactly as he did the last time I saw him. The only difference was that his blond hair was mostly gray. We spent an hour or so eating and […]

Everyone wants to be a leader. However, few are prepared to accept the accountability that goes with it. But you can’t have one without the other.

Complaining about others hurts you in more ways than you can imagine. Fortunately, you can change this and become a person others seek out and want to be around.

Launching anything new is tough. But the challenges are predictable. Here’s how to take them on one at a time and win.