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Brian Johnson
You Are Heroic with Brian Johnson features the best big ideas from life-changing books and practical tools to help you move from Theory to Practice to Mastery and flourish in Energy, Work, and Love. Get more wisdom in less time so you can activate your best, every day—so that we can change the world, one person at a time, together, starting with you and me and us, today! (Learn more about Heroic Public Benefit Corporation at https://heroic.us)
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Dec 30, 2020 • 13min
Mastery Series Module IV: Carpe Diem - Part 7: Carpe Weekem (Preview)
Optimize: https://optimize.me/ (← Get Free Stuff + Free 2-Week Trial!) Optimize Coach: https://optimize.me/coach (← Join 2,000+ Optimizers from 70+ Countries!) Check out the module preview and download the free worksheets at: Extending the Rhythms of Our Days To Our Weeks and Turning Pro. In Module IV.7, we apply what we've learned about creating Masterpiece Days to create Masterpiece Weeks, becoming Professional Optimizers as we focus on the process, make progress, cultivate confidence, demonstrate consistency, and commit to spiraling up by keeping score on the things that matter most.

Dec 29, 2020 • 11min
Mastery Series Module IV: Carpe Diem - Part 6: Love (Preview)
Optimize: https://optimize.me/ (← Get Free Stuff + Free 2-Week Trial!) Optimize Coach: https://optimize.me/coach (← Join 2,000+ Optimizers from 70+ Countries!) Check out the module preview and download the free worksheets at: Love 0.0 + Love 1.0 + Love 2.0 + Love 3.0 + Love ∞.0. Now that we know that Today's the Day and have our AM and PM Bookends rocking along with superhero levels of Energy and Work, we're ready for the most important thing: LOVE. In this session we'll redefine Love and set some fun daily targets as we master Love 0.0, Love 1.0, Love 2.0, Love 3.0 and Love ∞.0. When? TODAY!!! And tomorrow and…

Dec 29, 2020 • 14min
My Top 3 PROSPERITY Books of All Time (+ a Life-Changing Idea From Each!) (#12)
Optimize: https://optimize.me/ (← Get Free Stuff + Free 2-Week Trial!) Optimize Coach: https://optimize.me/coach (← Join 2,000+ Optimizers from 70+ Countries!) Here are my Top 3 PROSPERITY Books of All Time: https://www.optimize.me/top3/prosperity #1: Spiritual Economics by Eric Butterworth → https://www.optimize.me/philosophers-notes/spiritual-economics-eric-butterworth/ #2: The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles → https://www.optimize.me/philosophers-notes/the-science-of-getting-rich-wallace-wattles/ #3: Wealth Warrior by Steve Chandler → https://www.optimize.me/philosophers-notes/wealth-warrior-steve-chandler/ Get Spiritual Economics by Eric Butterworth on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Economics-Principles-Process-Prosperity/dp/087159269X?tag=entheos06-20 Get The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Science-Getting-Rich-Thrifty-Book/dp/1604598875?tag=entheos06-20 Get Wealth Warrior by Steve Chandler on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Wealth-Warrior-Personal-Prosperity-Revolution-ebook/dp/B008ZLO6XS?tag=entheos06-20 ► RELATED RESOURCES: #1: SPIRITUAL ECONOMICS by Eric Butterworth - +1: Spiritual Economics | Your New Wealth Vocabulary (#349) → https://www.optimize.me/plus-one/spiritual-economics/ - +1: Prosper = "to Go Forward Hopefully" | Not so Much a CONDITION OF Life as It Is an ATTITUDE TOWARD Life (#923) → https://www.optimize.me/plus-one/prosper-to-go-forward-hopefully/ - +1: How to Prosper | Some "Pro" Tips (Via a Visit with my Dictionary) (#958) → https://www.optimize.me/plus-one/how-to-prosper/ #2: THE SCIENCE OF GETTING RICH by Wallace D. Wattles - +1: Compete? Nah. Create! | A Key to the Science of Getting Rich (#432) → https://www.optimize.me/plus-one/compete-nah-create/ - +1: Euthymia | How to Live with Energized Tranquility (#100) → https://www.optimize.me/plus-one/euthymia/ #3: WEALTH WARRIOR by Steve Chandler - +1: Wealth thru Profound Service | Three Mindsets: Passion + Craftsman + Servant (#350) → https://www.optimize.me/plus-one/wealth-thru-profound-service/ - Masterpiece Days 101 → https://www.optimize.me/masterpiece-days/ ► FREE 14-DAY OPTIMIZE TRIAL: Get the PhilosophersNotes on these great books and over 600 others by starting a Free 14-Day Optimize trial membership: https://www.optimize.me/trial/ ► MORE GOODNESS: - Get the Optimize App for iPhone & iPad: https://www.optimize.me/apps/ - Get the Optimize App for Android: https://www.optimize.me/apps/ - Subscribe to the Optimize Podcast: https://optimize.me/podcast/ - Follow Optimize on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BriantheOptimizer/ - Follow Optimize on Instagram: https://instagram.com/optimize.me/ - Learn More about Optimize Coach: https://optimize.me/coach/

Dec 27, 2020 • 11min
Mastery Series Module IV: Carpe Diem - Part 5: Work (Preview)
Optimize: https://optimize.me/ (← Get Free Stuff + Free 2-Week Trial!) Optimize Coach: https://optimize.me/coach (← Join 2,000+ Optimizers from 70+ Countries!) Check out the module preview and download the free worksheets at: Going Deep Pre-Inputs With 100% Presence. With our Energy Optimized, we're ready to go Deep and give ourselves most fully to the world via deep, meaningful work. We'll talk about how to go Deep, discover our idiosyncratic rhythms and track our awesome via our Carpe Diem journal. Whether you're a startup CEO or a stay-at-home supermom, we'll be creating a ton of flow via deliberate, intentional, deep and meaningful work.

Dec 26, 2020 • 12min
10 Big Ideas to Optimize Your Energy (Create Rhythms. Train Your Recovery. Flip the Switch.)
Optimize: https://optimize.me/ (← Get Free Stuff + Free 2-Week Trial!) Optimize Coach: https://optimize.me/coach (← Join 2,000+ Optimizers from 70+ Countries!) Check out the module preview and download the free worksheets at: https://www.optimize.me/coach-module-iv-4/ Create Rhythms. Train Your Recovery. Flip the Switch.. With our AM and PM Bookends coming together, we're ready to Optimize our Energy throughout the day. Too many of us go through our days constantly "on" and, as a result, feeling a sense of what we call "enervated anxiety" (a close relative of burnout and bleh). To help the cause, we'll teach you how to create a deep sense of "Energized Tranquility" by systematically creating rhythms to our days that enable us to show up as our best selves more and more consistently throughout the day and over the years and decades ahead. (Boom!)

Dec 25, 2020 • 6min
Install Your AM Protocol to Win the Day Early (10 Big Ideas from The Optimize Mastery Series Module IV: Carpe Diem - Part 3: The AM Bookend)
Optimize: https://optimize.me/ (← Get Free Stuff + Free 2-Week Trial!) Optimize Coach: https://optimize.me/coach (← Join 2,000+ Optimizers from 70+ Countries!) Check out the module preview and download the free worksheets at: https://www.optimize.me/coach-module-iv-3/ Install AM Protocol & Win the Day Early. With a solid PM Bookend installed, we're ready to show up like a Boss in the morning—waking up feeling energized and ready to do some of our most important Big 3 goodness BEFORE we enter the world of inputs. We'll begin installing a solid AM protocol, including a meditation and Carpe Diem telos practice and, if you can swing it with your idiosyncratic constraints, some Deep Work, Deep Energy, and Deep Love time blocks.

Dec 24, 2020 • 6min
Masterpiece Days Begin the Night Before (10 Big Ideas from Module IV: Carpe Diem - Part 2: The PM Bookend)
Optimize: https://optimize.me/ (← Get Free Stuff + Free 2-Week Trial!) Optimize Coach: https://optimize.me/coach (← Join 2,000+ Optimizers from 70+ Countries!) Check out the module preview and download the free worksheets at: https://www.optimize.me/coach-module-iv-2/ Masterpiece Days Begin the Night Before. Now that we know TODAY'S the Day (!!!), it's time to start at the beginning of our Optimal day—which just so happens to be the END of the prior day. As such, we're going to start architecting our Masterpiece Day with a solid Shutdown Complete and Digital Sunset protocol. We'll get better at turning our brains off so we can get to bed earlier and wake up (without an alarm?) nice and early feeling all bright and shiny. (Note: Optimizers consistently tell us THIS session changes lives.)

Dec 22, 2020 • 10min
Today's the Day To Create Emotional Stamina via Masterpiece Days (10 Big Ideas from Mastery Series Module IV: Carpe Diem - Part 1: The Big Picture) (Preview)
Optimize: https://optimize.me/ (← Get Free Stuff + Free 2-Week Trial!) Optimize Coach: https://optimize.me/coach (← Join 2,000+ Optimizers from 70+ Countries!) Check out the module preview and download the free worksheets at: https://www.optimize.me/coach-module-iv-1/ Today's the Day To Create Emotional Stamina via Masterpiece Days. If we're serious about moving from Theory to Practice to Mastery then we need to know one very (!) important fact: TODAY'S the Day!! In this session, we'll look at the big picture, meet the reporter who's always following you around, learn about the importance of knowing and EXECUTING our protocol. (Know this: the worse we feel, the MORE committed we need to be to executing our protocol!) We'll also take a v1 pass at our Masterpiece Day template.

Dec 21, 2020 • 11min
My Top 3 CELEBRATING Books of All Time (+ a Life-Changing Idea From Each!) (#11)
Here are my Top 3 CELEBRATING Books of All Time: https://www.optimize.me/top3/celebrating Optimize: https://optimize.me/ (← Get Free Stuff + Free 2-Week Trial!) Optimize Coach: https://optimize.me/coach (← Join 2,000+ Optimizers from 70+ Countries!) #1: Self-Compassion by Kristen Neff, Ph.D. → https://www.optimize.me/philosophers-notes/gratitude-works-robert-emmons/ #2: Gratitude Works! by Robert A. Emmons → https://www.optimize.me/philosophers-notes/gratitude-works-robert-emmons/ #3: Pathways to Bliss by Joseph Campbell → https://www.optimize.me/philosophers-notes/pathways-to-bliss-joseph-campbell/ Get Self-Compassion by Kristen Neff, Ph.D. on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Gratitude-Works-Creating-Emotional-Prosperity/dp/1118131290/ Get Gratitude Works! by Robert A. Emmons on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Gratitude-Works-Creating-Emotional-Prosperity/dp/1118131290/ Get Pathways to Bliss by Joseph Campbell on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Pathways-Bliss-Mythology-Personal-Transformation/dp/1458749118?tag=entheos06-20 ► RELATED RESOURCES: #1: SELF-COMPASSION by Kristin Neff, Ph.D. - +1: The Science of Self-Compassion | Three Keys: Self-Kindness + Common Humanity + Mindfulness (#34) → https://www.optimize.me/plus-one/the-science-of-self-compassion/ #2: GRATITUDE WORKS! by Robert A. Emmons - PN: Thanks! by Robert A. Emmons → https://www.optimize.me/philosophers-notes/thanks-robert-emmons/ - +1: How to Cultivate Gratitude | Science Says: #1 Practice = … (#1069) → https://www.optimize.me/plus-one/how-to-cultivate-gratitude/ - +1: Science Says: Gratitude Works | Some EYE-POPPING Stats (#1068) → https://www.optimize.me/plus-one/science-says-gratitude-works/ - +1: Taking Things FOR GRANTED vs. AS GRANTED | Let's Choose Wisely (#1070) → https://www.optimize.me/plus-one/taking-things-for-granted-vs-as-granted/ - +1: The #1 Obstacle to Gratitude | And Its Remedy (#1071) → https://www.optimize.me/plus-one/the-1-obstacle-to-gratitude/ - #1: How do you start your day? Here's how I start mine. (Breakfast of Champions + Oura 1-2-3+!) (#5) → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLO3HrC6-hU #3: PATHWAYS TO BLISS by Joseph Campbell - Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth with Bill Moyers → https://billmoyers.com/series/joseph-campbell-and-the-power-of-myth-1988/ - Finding Joe → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8nFACrLxr0 - +1: Follow Your Bliss | Jump into Enlightenment (#124) → https://www.optimize.me/plus-one/follow-your-bliss/

Dec 20, 2020 • 11min
Mastery Series Module II: Hero-ology - Part 3: Scientific Target Practice (Preview)
Optimize: https://optimize.me/ (← Get Free Stuff + Free 2-Week Trial!) Optimize Coach: https://optimize.me/coach (← Join 2,000+ Optimizers from 70+ Countries!) Check out the module preview and download the free worksheets at: https://www.optimize.me/coach-module-ii-3/ Applying the Best of Modern Science To the Study of a Good Hero. In Module II.3 we learn the science of how to make our goals reality via WOOP, increase our motivation, cultivate grit, and Optimize our courage en route to maintaining dynamic tension and dynamic equilibrium while aiming ourselves towards our Universal, Unique, and Ultimate quests.


