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How Gratitude Makes Us Resilient

November 22, 2021 by Michael Hyatt

There’s a widely held assumption that gratitude leaves us feeling complacent. If we’re comfortable with life, we’ll feel no need to achieve more. And also have no need to set goals, right? But the opposite is true. Gratitude doesn’t make us complacent. Instead, it increases our efforts in the pursuit of goals. There are several […]

Filed Under: Personal Development Tagged With: agency, gratitude, hope, Personal Development, resilience

Why Hopeful Realism Beats Mandatory Optimism

The Downside of Positivity and What It Means for Your Business

October 31, 2017 by Megan Hyatt Miller

One unavoidable piece of advice today is be positive. We’re supposed to filter out supposed negativity in meetings, reports, and general conversation because we think positivity produces the results we want. Optimism is almost mandatory in some environments. As Dan Lovallo and Daniel Kahneman point out, critical feedback is discouraged and treated like disloyalty. “The […]

Filed Under: Leadership, Personal Development Tagged With: deferred gratification, hope, Leadership, negativity, optimism, Patience, Pessimism, realism, say no, self-discipline

3 Leadership Lessons from the Cubs’ Historic World Series Win

Because it Takes More than Skill to Beat the Odds

November 4, 2016 by Michael Hyatt

I’m not much of a baseball fan. I played in high school, but I lost interest after breaking my elbow. So while most of my friends were deep into game seven of the World Series, I went to bed. Then they woke me up. Several of us were staying in a vacation home for a […]

Filed Under: Leadership Tagged With: baseball, hope, Leadership, Potential

Why You Aren’t Dead Yet

Proof That Your Most Important Days Are Still Ahead

June 10, 2016 by Michael Hyatt

You may be old. You may be sick. You may be divorced. You may be out of work. You may be broke. You are still here for a reason.

Filed Under: Leadership Tagged With: andy andrews, contribution, Featured, hope, Leadership, Mission, purpose, the noticer