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The 10/80/10 Principle: Grow Your Business with 20% of the Work

What if you could grow your business and only do about 20% of the work you’re currently doing? If that were true, you would do almost anything to find out how to do it, right?

One Simple Hack for Taking a Perfect Vacation

Vacations are essential for active rejuvenation. But for a lot of us, vacations aren’t all that restful—and coming back from vacation is a nightmare. We don’t start off with a great plan. And then, because we don’t tie up loose ends before we go, we end up working during our vacations. So we never clear our heads from work.

Your Midyear Goal Rescue Plan

It is July which means that 2022 is already halfway finished. While some people have made huge steps towards their goals, others have goals that they’re struggling to complete. Maybe that’s you. If it is, then there’s no judgement – life can demand your attention in ways we can’t anticipate. The good news is that it’s not too late to achieve your 2022 goals!

Walk Away and Watch it Grow: How to Step Away and Still Win

As business leaders, we’ve been programmed to think that we have to be chained to our desks and phones, always in meetings, and always ready to drop everything to fix a problem at work. And, of course, we’ve also been conditioned that there is simply no time for a vacation.

Using the Planner as a Business Tool

The Full Focus Planner has sold more than a million copies to all sorts of people: teachers, designers, accountants, executives, sales professionals… the list goes on and on. We love that so many people are finding the planner so useful in their lives!

One Framework to Diagnose Any Problem at Work

As a business leader, there’s really only one thing that is certain: you will face problems. What isn’t certain is how well you do at identifying the problems and then correcting them.

The Intentional Path to Work-Life Balance

High achievers have a bad habit of working too much and all of that extra time comes with a very real cost and, unfortunately, sometimes we don’t notice that cost until it’s too late.

Get the Feedback You Need to Grow

As a business owner, you are always the ceiling on how successful your business can be. The only way your business can grow is for you to grow. But, there’s a problem: As your company grows and becomes more successful, you’ll be more insulated from candid feedback.

The State of Productivity in 2022

Full Focus recently surveyed more than 200 high-achievers across 10 key productivity categories to find out how they’re getting things done. What we learned is that the pandemic accelerated a number of trends related to flexible work hours, remote work, and so much more.

3 Successful Innovation Insights Learned from the History of the Full Focus Planner

When the Full Focus Planner was developed, we had no idea that it would take off and become over half of our business. Five years and one million planners later, Michael Hyatt, Megan Hyatt Miller, and Chief Product Officer Joel Miller talk about the three valuable insights they learned that transformed their business.