Your Best Year Ever: A 5-Step Plan for Achieving Your Most Important Goals

by Michael Hyatt

Your Best Year Ever is based on five key assumptions. First, real life is multifaceted. Our lives are more than our work. They are even more than our families. The way I see it, our lives consist of ten interrelated domains: Spiritual: Your connection to God Intellectual: Your engagement with significant ideas Emotional: Your psychological health Physical: Your bodily health Marital: Your spouse or significant other Parental: Your children if you have any Social: Your friends and associates Vocational: Your profession Avocational: Your hobbies and pastime Financial: Your personal or family finances

There’s an old saying: “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes.”

What happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves about what happens. RABIH ALAMEDDINE, The Hakawati

The first key difference between an unmet goal and personal success is the belief that it can be achieved.

Listen to what famed futurist, sci-fi author, and inventor Arthur C. Clarke said: “When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.” As Clarke said, it’s a “failure of imagination.”11

We can’t complete the past until we acknowledge what we’ve already experienced.