Michael Hyatt is the author of Living Forward: A Proven Plan to Stop Drifting and Get the Life You Want (Baker, 2016), which he wrote with Daniel Harkavy. It is Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestseller.

He is also the author of Platform: Get Noticed in a Noisy World (Thomas Nelson, 2012). It is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestseller.

Michael is the former Chairman & CEO of Thomas Nelson Publishers, now part of HarperCollins. He began his career at Word Publishing while a senior at Baylor University. In the 30 years since then, he has worked in nearly every facet of book publishing.

He is also an expert in the field of social media. His blog, MichaelHyatt.com, is ranked by Google in the top one-half percent of all blogs with more than one million page views a month. He has readers in more than two hundred countries. Recently, Forbes magazine named him one of "Top 10 Online Marketing Experts to Follow" and one of the "Top 50 Social Media Influencers."

His podcast, This Is Your Life, is consistently in the top ten in the Business category on iTunes and downloaded by more than 300,000 people a month. He has more than 285,000 followers on Twitter and more than 175,000 fans in his Facebook community.

He is also the President and Founder of Platform University, an online membership community designed to give people the inspiration, coaching, and resources they need to get noticed in a noisy world. He is the creator of three elite courses.

"5 Days to Your Best Year Ever" is a goal-setting course with more than 15,000 graduates.

"Get Published" is a 21-session audio course where I provide everything I have learned as a 30-year publishing industry veteran with two New York Times bestselling books to my credit. I discuss how to write a book proposal, how to find an agent, how to write your book, how to market it--and more!

And "Free to Focus" is a total productivity system based off my decades of research and experience as a CEO and entrepreneur. It's designed to help you drive results and free up your schedule for the people and projects that matter most. By teaching you to spend 80% of your time on what's most important (instead of the mere 20% most leaders are able to devote to their priorities), this course provides gains at work and restores balance to your personal life. Free to Focus teaches you elite strategies for accomplishing more by doing LESS.

While Michael loves his work, it is not the most important thing in his life. That position belongs to his family. He has been married to his wife, Gail, for thirty-seven years. They have five daughters, four sons-in-law, and eight grandchildren. They live just outside of Nashville, Tennessee.

Blog: MichaelHyatt.com

Twitter: @MichaelHyatt

Facebook: facebook.com/MichaelHyatt

About the book

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.

Year over year passes by, and we still haven’t accomplished what we know we’re capable of.

Until Now…

In Your Best Year Ever, New York Times bestselling author, two-time CEO, entrepreneur, and family man Michael Hyatt shares a powerful, proven, research-driven system for setting and achieving your goals.