You Are Heroic with Brian Johnson

Today I had fun hammering out the Introduction Module for the Mastery Series. Fired up. Done!! YES!! I also filmed this #1 on the fascinating Audience Effect and another test. 9 hours in bed for 8 hours of sleep for the win!! :)

This morning I ran a little experiment and got out of bed a little earlier than I normally do. It's always fascinating to see the data from experiments and use it to get a little better! In this case: I really like 8 hours of sleep so, note to self: Be in bed for 9 hours and get that little extra bonus kick of REM, yo! Hope you enjoy and here's to crushing the fundamentals and making Today and awesome day!

Today we're going to take a quick look at THE Ultimate Algorithm for Optimizing. But, first, we drool over Alexandra's RIDICULOUSLY awesome Oura #s. lol. Then we have fun with some wisdom from two Phils: My Coach, Phil Stutz, and NBA great, Phil Jackson. Guess what? They both say the EXACT same thing about how to win the game of life. As Phil Jackson puts it (in The Last Dance ← awesome): "You're only a success in the moment you perform a successful act. You have to do it again." ← And again. And again. btw: THAT is what our Optimize Mastery Series is all about. Join us for Optimize Coach - Class III? Kicks off in less than 2 weeks!!! https://www.optimize.me/coach/ That is all. That and LET'S DO THIS! Today.

This morning I worked on the "Prospering" session for our Mastery Series (which is the foundation of our Optimize Coach program). After a 1-2-3 / 1+2+3! Breakfast of Champions (including savoring some *more* SEAL mojo), we move on to a quick overview of how to get your Prospering on—starting with the etymology lesson on the fact that the word "prosper" LITERALLY means "to go forward with hope." The opposite isn't "to be be poor" per se—unless we're talking about "poor in spirit." The opposite of "prosper" is "despair"--to be WITHOUT hope. Then, of course, we talk about how to get our prospering on. Hope you enjoy and hope you have an awesome day! More on Sleep at: https://www.optimize.me/sleep/ More on Coach at: https://www.optimize.me/coach/

This morning I worked on the "Celebrating" session for our Mastery Series (which is the foundation of our Optimize Coach program). After a 1-2-3 / 1+2+3! Breakfast of Champions (including savoring some SEAL mojo), we move on to a quick overview of how to get your celebration on—starting with acceptance then moving on to gratitude and finishing with you winning (or learning!) all day every day as you step into the Optimizing arena and give us all you've got while celebrating the whole process with deep, eudaimonic joy. Hope you enjoy and hope you have an awesome day!

This morning I thought it would be fun to share how I start my day. Jocko Willink has his 4:00 AM Timex watch. Awesome. I'm thinking I'll share my Oura data every day and how I quickly use that data to get a little better via a three-step process we teach our Optimizers and Optimize Coaches: 1. What's working? 2. What needs work? 3. What will I do differently? BOOM! Repeat. Aggregate and compound and let's see what we're capable of as we show up day in and day out for an extended period of time. I also share my Breakfast of Champions and some more thoughts on the messy process of creativity! Now it's time to hit the Trail and then take my kids to the zoo. LET'S DO THIS. TODAY.

In our last +1, we got an inspiring (Hoosiers-inspired) pep talk from Admiral McRaven right before engaging in our next most important mission. I mentioned the fact that I had a chat with an Olympic swim coach shortly after reading that passage from McRaven. He and I chatted about that wisdom in the context of measuring the length of the pool, the number of inches the starting block is off the water. Etc. Etc. We also talked about flipping the switch and striking an Amy Cuddy-inspired power pose—which can literally change our underlying physiology by increasing our testosterone and decreasing our cortisol while priming us to give the world all we've got. Then I referenced a passage from Cuddy's great book Presence in which she actually talks about an Olympic swim coach who used that very technique. Here's the passage: "In the first month after my TED talk posted, I heard from an Olympic swimming coach who explained how he'd been using a power posing-type strategy—with great success—for years: encouraging some of his swimmers, beginning on the morning of the race, to physically behave as if they'd won their events. Swimmers, as he pointed out, are notorious for their use of dominant body language in the moments before races, not only to signal their power to their competitors but also to loosen their muscles and pump themselves up. Sometimes they will literally pound their chests, like gorillas. But the approach this coach used—encouraging swimmers to adopt 'alpha' nonverbal postures from the minute they wake up on race days—was most helpful to swimmers who'd been thrown off by a poor performance or who were feeling a wave of insecurity and self-doubt." I love that. Imagine a swimmer on the morning of her event acting as if she'd already won (and getting the benefit of all that extra power). As Cuddy tells us: We need to fake it until we become it. Not to manipulate others and gain power over them but to slightly trick ourselves for the moment so we can gain personal power to express the best, boldest, most authentic version of ourselves. Love it. Let's do it. Pom poms. Rah rah. Etc. And… I say: Why limit it to the day of a swimming event? How does the best, boldest, most authentic version of you think and breathe and walk and talk? Let's bring that wonderfully bold version of ourselves to our lives all day ever day. Especially: TODAY!

After filming Eating, Moving, Sleeping, Breathing, and Focusing over the last 5 days (YES!), I took a step back and did some messy creative work on Celebrating. Today I'm excited to share some thoughts on how I plan to approach that Mastery Series class along with some powerful wisdom from Abraham Maslow. Hope you enjoy and here's to Radical Acceptance, Profound Gratitude and Ceaseless Celebration!

This morning I prepared for my film session on Focusing for our Mastery Series that is the core part of our 300-day Optimize Coach program. Here's a super-quick look at some core ideas from that class. Hope you find it helpful!!! Here's to having an awesome day, one FOCUSED (!) moment at a time!! Remember: Soul Force = T x (E x F x W.I.N.)^C

This morning I prepared for my film session on Breathing for our Mastery Series that is the core part of our 300-day Optimize Coach program. Here's a super-quick look at some core ideas from that class. Hope you find it helpful!!! Here's to having an awesome day, one Optimized breath at a time!! Remember: 1. Nose. 2. Belly. 3. Exhale!!