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  Be So Good They Can’t Ignore You

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  Origin Stories Featuring Cal Newport + Steve Martin

  In our last +1, we had fun extending Cal Newport’s Work wisdom to our Energy and Love. As you may recall, I suggested that we may want to consider… Being So Good They Can’t Ignore us Work wise. And… Being So ENERGIZED They Can FEEL Us Energy wise. And… That we want to be So AWESOME ...

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  How to High Five God

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  And Plug Into Divine Power Today

  For the first three years of working together, Phil Stutz and I met EVERY single week. I think we might have rescheduled a couple sessions and skipped maybe one week. My collection of notes from our (150+!) chats is one of my most prized possessions and one of the last things I most carefully packed befo...

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  Shall We Pray Together?

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  The Optimize Virtue Prayer

  In our last +1, we talked about the potential catalytic force multiplicative power of our Optimize Coach program. I invited you to join us for our next Optimize Coach Class (Class IV!!) that starts on January 1st, 2021 and shared some discounts the Team set up for early registration and joining with a fr...

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  The Catalytic Force Multiplier

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  To Changing the World

  On September 1st, 2020, we kicked off Optimize Coach – Class III. It’s impossible to capture just how inspired I am to now have 2,000+ Optimizers from 70+ Countries around the world in our Optimize Coach community. I believe that THIS is going to be the catalytic force multiplier that will drive ...

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  Meet My New Favorite Bird

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  Can You Guess What It Is?

  As we’ve discussed countless times, I start my days with at least a minute or three of journaling. These days it’s a super-quick sketch of our Optimize Virtue Compass then a quick trip through the Big 3 x 2 +1. So… The other day I sat down to begin my Deep Work session with the quick sketch of ...

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  The Upward Spiral

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  And How to Get on It

  The Upward Spiral by Alex Korb is a great book. As we briefly discussed when we chatted about some parallel wisdom between that book and Tiny Habits, it’s all about “Using Neuroscience to Reverse the Course of Depression, One Small Change at a Time.” Basically, the neuroscience of how to ge...

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  Shine

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  The Result of Skillfully Celebrating our Successes

  In our last few +1s, we talked about the fact that CELEBRATION might just be the next big thing. Mindfulness? Science says: It’s powerful. Gratitude? Science says: It’s powerful. Celebration? BJ Fogg tells us that soon science will appreciate JUST how powerful it is and that it’ll take its rightful...

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  The Neuroscience of Seneca

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  Pleasant + Honorable = The Same

  In our last couple +1s, we’ve been talking about the power of Celebration to help us hack our brains to accelerate the process of creating new habits. Today I want to spend a little more time in BJ Fogg’s Behavior Design Lab at Stanford. And, I’d like to invite our old friend Seneca to join us ther...

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  How to Celebrate

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  Hint: IMMEDIATELY + INTENSELY

  In our last +1, we talked about the power of Celebrating our tiny successes. Recall that BJ Fogg tells us: “If you learn just one thing from my entire book, I hope it’s this: Celebrate your tiny successes. This one small shift in your life can have a massive impact even when you feel there is no ...

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  Tree-Climbing Fish

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  Einstein Says: Everybody Is a Genius But…

  Today we’re going to go back to Jim Kwik and his great book Limitless one more time. One of the key themes of the book is that we all have a unique blend of background and passions and skills. He echoes the wisdom we talked about in a +1 back in the day featuring wisdom from Ken Robinson in which Ken t...

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  The Oak Sleeps in the Acorn

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  Sprouting Genius Work

  In our last +1, we talked about doing Genius Work (vs. Mediocre Work) as we reminded ourselves that both the Romans and the Greeks had a word for our inner guiding spirit—that Optimus best within each of us. The Greeks called it daimon. The Romans called it genius. As you may recall, back in the day we...

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  Cancer Candy (Aka Sugar)

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  And All It’s Secret Identities

  A couple +1s ago (right before taking out the carbage yesterday), we had a brief chat about the links between sugar consumption and depression, highlighting the fact that we went from consuming essentially NO sugar 500 years ago to consuming 150 POUNDS every year. That, my friends, is crazy. (Literally a...

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  Taking Out the Carbage

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  How to go from MAD to Flourishing

  In our last +1, we talked about the fact that 500 years ago we basically consumed NO sugar. Then we started nibbling on 5 lbs of sugar per year a few hundred years ago. Now we vacuum up 150 lbs of sugar on average per person every year. CRAZY. Yet another example of where being “average” isn&...

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  Eudaimonism vs. Hedonism

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  Don’t Want to Be Depressed? Science Says…

  In our last +1, we talked about the fact that when we go after accumulating more and more “stuff” (whether that’s the latest gadgets or Instagram likes), we often find ourselves working harder and harder but not getting any happier. We’re stuck on what scientists call a “hed...

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  Eudaimonic Treadmills

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  Note: There Aren’t Any

  Have you ever heard of “hedonic treadmills”? We talked about them briefly a few years ago in the context of this +1 on the science of hedonic adaptation. Basic idea: We adapt to all the “things” we get in our lives. That shiny new car isn’t so shiny a few months after we get...

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