Some great concepts, but I was getting distracted with the many examples and personal anecdotes. These may be helpful to some and maybe it was more my frame of mind ... but I found it distracting.

Still, great concepts and I'm going to look further into the LifeScore and some of the other resources available by Michael Hyatt. ( )

Another goal-setting book... another rehash of all the goal-setting tactics that get splattered all over social media in the days leading up to January 1st. Hyatt insists his approach is different, but the book is just a thinly-veiled sales pitch for his online programs and extravagantly priced planners.

I was hoping for more. Different. Better. Instead, I got a series of common-sense suggestions sprinkled liberally with quotes from other writers and their books. A couple of ideas seemed original (like doing the easiest thing first rather than "eating the frog"), and I made a note of those. Otherwise, the book felt like a cheap marketing tactic with a whole lot of filler content. ( )

I have a consistent mental pattern with self-help books: I start off super engaged for the first 2, maybe 3 chapters, and then my enthusiasm falls off a cliff. There's always something nagging me at the back of my head that the writers of these books are laughing all the way to the bank on the back of peddling some mysterious black art that's actually stuff we generally know already but which feeds our common weaknesses. A few choice lines in this book certainly didn't challenge that train of thought for me (Hyatt taking all his staff and partners on a Caribbean cruise in celebration of goals achieved, and his personal assistant doing things that he's clearly too important and busy to have the time to do, like phone up and make a restaurant reservation for date night with his wife).

In a nutshell, this book is about identifying your habit and achievement goals, zoning in on your motivations to keep them, identifying actions on how you're going to meet your goals, regularly reviewing progress and celebrating achievements. Anything mind blowing for anyone there? No, me neither. It is useful to a degree if you need a kick up the backside to do some of this stuff. Perhaps my biggest realisation on the back of reading this is that I've not really had any personal goals for a long while as I've been focused for too long on the goals of my company and my family, so if nothing else it was worth reading to get a prod on that.

For sure there are some useful techniques and takeaways from this book, but I'm not entirely sure I want to be one of those laser-focused Alphas who runs their life like a military operation. I can see why guys like Hyatt and CEOs of multi-million pound businesses love all this stuff, but I'm mostly OK with where I am right now.

3.5 stars - an interesting enough read and a good prompter if you're into this sort of book, but nothing earth shattering in terms of methodologies. ( )

Comprehensive. I could do without all the sports and war metaphors.

I skimmed it because all I wanted was the process. If this were the first time reading anything on goals setting, I would have read it more closely.

I liked how he laid out how he does hos goal setting and achievements. It seems similar to gtd, but leaner and easier to commit to. There were some newish ideas in here, old ideas with a small twist, that made it a bit more interesting, but really, nothin too earth-shattering. Basically, creat goals and work on them. Duh. ( )