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Resistance Breathing

How to Work Out the Most Underappreciated Muscle in Your Body

What do you think is the most important, underappreciated muscle in your body? Think about that for a moment. What’s your guess? I think this is the most underappreciated muscle in my body: ___________________________. Well, get this: Breathing experts tell us th...

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+1 inspired by Note: Breathe

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Moist Robots

How to Program Yourself for Awesome

While we’re on a roll with some Scott Adams wisdom, how about one more? Scott tells us that we’re kinda like moist Robots. We’re programmable. We just need to learn how to program our Robot-selves for optimal performance. The first few buttons he tells us to push?...

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+1 inspired by Note: How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big

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Your Declaration of Independence

From Which Tyrannous Habits Will You Declare Your Independence?

For those of you in the States celebrating today, Happy Independence Day. For everyone else around the world, Happy 4th of July! 😃 The 4th of July. Of course, today we’re celebrating Independence Day. But it’s important to note that we’re not celebrating the day we *won* ...

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+1 inspired by Note: The Power of Intention

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AM + PM Bookends

How to Create Masterpiece Days: Start Here!

In The Compound Effect, Darren Hardy makes the important point that we have more control over the very beginnings of our day and the very ends of our days than we do over the middle of the days. He calls those “Bookends.” If we want to create a template for a Masterpiece Day...

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+1 inspired by Note: The Compound Effect

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Spinny Fingers

How to Quickly Regain Your Balance When Life Spins You Around

Try this little experiment. Step 1. Find a safe spot to spin around and get yourself dizzy. Step 2. Spin around and get yourself a little dizzy. (Seriously. Try it!) Now, once you’ve gotten yourself nice and dizzy, I’d like you to try two different things. First...

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+1 inspired by Note: Unbeatable Mind

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Digging Foundations

What the World’s Tallest Building Can Teach Us about Building the World’s Tallest You

One more +1 on the fundamentals theme to finish our trifecta following Greatness = Consistency on the Fundamentals and Coach Wooden teaching us How to Put on Our Life-Socks. Question: If you wanted to see how tall a building is going to be and you couldn’t look at the architect’s plans or a...

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+1 inspired by Note: The Leader Who Had No Title

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How to Put on Your (Life-)Socks

Wisdom from the Greatest Coach Ever

John Wooden’s UCLA basketball teams won 10 NCAA championships in 12 years, including an 88-game winning streak. (Go Bruins!) ESPN says that Wooden was the greatest coach of the 20th century. That makes him, arguably, the greatest coach ever. Couple things to note here: First, qu...

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+1 inspired by Note: Wooden

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Greatness = Consistency on the Fundamentals

Universal + Specific (What Are Yours?)

Robin Sharma tells us that greatness is all about consistency on the fundamentals. Look at any great performer and that’s what you’ll see. Of course, a world-class artist will have different fundamentals than an athlete who will have different fundamentals than an entrepreneur who wi...

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+1 inspired by Note: The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

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Quick How to on Habits

100% on ONE Keystone Daily Micro Habit

So, we’re ready to go ALL IN and make that 100% commitment with super bright lines. Fantastic. But here’s the deal. First: We need to make sure we make that jumbo-ALL-IN commitment on ONE thing. Not one HUNDRED things. ONE thing. You can pick whatever you want. Research...

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+1 inspired by Note: Mini Habits

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Deep Work + Team Work + Monkey Work

What Goes When for You?

In our last +1, we talked about matching your mental energy to the right task. The essence of that? You don’t want to try to do your most important work when your brain is fried. I like to think of this whole process of matching our task to our energy as Deep Work + Team Work + Monkey ...

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+1 inspired by Note: How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big

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How to Schedule Your Best Work

Match Your Mental Energy to Your Task

Scott Adams created Dilbert. (Over 10,000 of them by now, actually.) He also wrote a great book called How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big. In it, he tells us how he makes sure he gets his Deep Work done every day. Scott is ALL about systems. Part of his ...

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+1 inspired by Note: How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big

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Sharpening the Saw

/Building a Chainsaw

Stephen Covey’s seventh habit of Highly Effective People is “Sharpen the Saw.” He tells us about the importance of renewal if we want to stay at our best and shares this parable to bring the point home: Imagine walking into a forest. You see a guy sawing a tree. He̵...

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Emotional Stamina

What to Do When You’re Having a Rough Day

What do you do when you’re having a rough day? Maybe it starts the moment you wake up and you just don’t feel like doing your normal things? Or maybe it kicks in a little later in the day after a disappointment. Things aren’t going your way. What do you do? Well, here’s ...

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How to Stop Thinking

The #1 Tip on How to Master this Important Lost Art

Patrick McKeown is one of the world’s leading experts on optimal breathing. When I interviewed him recently, he made a very interesting point. He said that we spend all our lives in school learning how to think but that we’re never taught how to STOP thinking. Fact is, most ...

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Motivation = ENERGY x (Value x Expectancy / Impulsivity x Delay)

A Modified Look at the Science of Motivation

Yesterday we talked about our motivation equation. You know: Motivation = Value x Expectancy / Impulsivity x Delay Quick re-cap: Our motivation will always be driven by how fired up we are about getting something (Value) and how confident we are that we can have it (Expectancy). To the extent w...

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