title: Your Best Year Ever: A 5-Step Plan for Achieving Your Most Important Goals
author:  Michael Hyatt 
description: <b>This is the year you finally close the gap between reality and your dreams.<br /></b><br />We all want to live a life that matters. We all want to reach our full potential. But too often we find ourselves overwhelmed by the day-to-day. Our big goals get pushed to the back burner--and then, more often than not, they get forgotten. <br /><br />It doesn't have to be that way! <br /><br />In <i>Your Best Year Ever</i>, Michael Hyatt shares a powerful, proven, research-driven system for setting and achieving your goals. You'll learn how to design your best year ever by discovering<br /><br /> what's holding you back right now<br /> how to overcome your past setbacks<br /> the seven attributes of effective goals<br /> how to quit-proof your goals<br /> the role of habits in personal achievement<br /> what to do when you feel stuck<br /> and much more<br /><br />If you're tired of not seeing progress in your personal, intellectual, business, relational, or financial goals, it's time for you to have your best year ever!|<b>Michael Hyatt</b> is the founder and CEO of Michael Hyatt &amp; Company, a leadership development firm specializing in transformative live events, workshops, and digital and physical planning tools. Formerly chairman and CEO of Thomas Nelson Publishers, Michael is also a <i>New York Times</i>, <i>Wall Street Journal</i>, and <i>USA Today</i> bestselling author of several books, including <i>Living Forward</i> and <i>Platform</i>. His work has been featured by the <i>Wall Street Journal</i>, <i>Forbes</i>, <i>Inc.</i>, <i>Fast Company</i>, <i>Businessweek</i>, <i>Entrepreneur</i>, and other publications. Michael has been married to his wife, Gail, for thirty-nine years. They have five daughters, three sons-in-law, and eight grandchildren. They live just outside Nashville, Tennessee. Learn more at MichaelHyatt.com.
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  “When it comes to achieving big goals, a lot of the conventional wisdom is
  flat wrong. In _Your Best Year Ever_ , Michael Hyatt lays out a simple
  program, backed by the best modern research, to reach your dreams!”
  
  > > > — **TONY ROBBINS** #1 _New York Times_ bestselling author, _Unshakeable_
  
  “Generous goals work (if you write them down) and powerful books work (if you
  read them). Michael Hyatt has created a fun, fast way to find your dreams and
  then turn them into reality.”
  
  > > > — **SETH GODIN** author, _Linchpin_
  
   _“Your Best Year Ever_ is full of compelling, real-life stories of average
  people who have achieved extraordinary results. Please take my advice and buy
  this book only if you want to be able to look back in twelve months and say,
  ‘Now that was _my_ best year ever!’”
  
  > > > — **JOHN C. MAXWELL** author, speaker, and leadership expert
  
  “Let’s be honest . . . resolutions just don’t work. That’s why a lot of gyms
  are empty and even more budgets 