You Are Heroic with Brian Johnson

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Today we spend some time with Abraham Maslow and his wisdom on embracing "misery privileges" in our life as we also connect some ideas from Ray Dalio and his mistake-learner's high with the inevitable imperfections of life that give us an opportunity to get a little Wiser! Hope you enjoy and let's do this! -bri

Today we spend some time with Abraham Maslow and his wisdom on embracing "misery privileges" in our life as we also connect some ideas from Ray Dalio and his mistake-learner's high with the inevitable imperfections of life that give us an opportunity to get a little Wiser!

In Today's #1, we go for a little walk on the Trail around our property. lol. Emerson makes a surprise cameo as we give you a little tour of our Trail and pond-turned-puddle along with an invitation to join us for Optimize Coach - Class III—which launches in less than one week!!! Learn more, sign up, etc: https://www.optimize.me/coach Love and let's do this! -bri

This morning we take the quick look at the ol' Oura score and briefly reflect on the imperfect nature of sleep (especially when your wife stops breastfeeding and you sleep in a family bed! lol) then hit a ton of little things I thought might be interesting—ranging from thoughts on my pre-inputs creative process and systems and wrapping up with Being So Good and Energized and Awesome That They Can't Ignore Us but they can Feel Us and Adore Us! Hope you enjoy and Happy Monday. Let's do this!!! -bri

In our last +1, we Optimized our oral posture. Bet you didn't think we'd be talking about that when you signed up for Optimize! (Hah.) I know I didn't but here we are! Recall: We want to turn our S-shaped bodies into a J-shape and then close our lips and gently place our tongues up toward the front of the roof of our mouths. As it turns out, my favorite breathing expert, Patrick McKeown, wrote an awesome kid's book in which he gives us a name for that spot. He calls it "The Magic Spot." So… Teaching ourselves AND our kids how to breathe properly is SUPER important. (As in: WAY more important than we may realize.) Patrick's book is called Always Breathe Correctly. I highly recommend it. The book features a wizard who teaches kids how to breathe. Of course, he teaches us that the nose is for breathing and the mouth is for eating while teaching us to breathe gently into our bellies, etc. And… He teaches us how to find that "Magic Spot"— with our tongues gently touching the area on the roof of our mouth right before our front teeth. When we hit that spot, we automagically close our lips and breathe through our nose. Which is why if I ever see Emerson with a gaping mouth, I'll say, "Magic spot, buddy!" He'll immediately smile, close his lips, and proudly breathe through his nose as I give him a thumbs up and a quick sign-language "Love you, buddy!" So… As you go through the day Today, if you ever happen to find yourself with a mouth gaping open and air going in through the wrong hole, perhaps you can playfully hear me say to you: "Magic spot, buddy!" Then we'll smile together and celebrate our little win as we get our shine on. Together. One breath at a time. TODAY.

This morning (after the 1-2-3!) I spent a few minutes going through the 100+ PhilosophersNotes on which I'll be doing PNTVs soon (YEEHAH!) and then got to work on my PN on Driven by Doug Brackmann. Here are some thoughts on Optimizing in general (Measure! Consistency!) and also on how to harness our drives in particular. Hope you enjoy. Let's do this. TODAY! -bri

Quick one this morning. 1-2-3, PNTVs are coming back—in black and white! lol—and this gem: "A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play, his labour and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To himself he always seems to be doing both. Enough for him that he does it well." ~ Lawrence Pearsall Jacks Hope you enjoy and here's to dissolving the apparent dichotomies between our work and our play! TODAY! -bri

This morning I did the normal 1-2-3 (x2) and celebrated completing the Mastery Series. Then I got to work on reading a book called "Together." It's by Vivek Murthy, who was the 19th Surgeon General of the United States. It's AMAZING. I share a few of my favorite ideas from chapter #1 and also give a little behind-the-scenes look at how I read a book, mark it all up and get ready for a PhilosophersNote. Hope you enjoy and let's make sure we write that social prescription TODAY! Love and high fives, -bri