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  Bliss, Pain & Unicorns on Everest

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  Pearl Bites Part II

  In our last +1, we talked about my chigger-triggers (hah and yeehah! 🤠) and how to alchemize life’s inevitable “inconveniences” into Pearl Bites. Right after finishing that one I thought about Kelly McGonigal’s wisdom on climbing Everest and the inevitable cold, crazy nights an explore...

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  Pearl Habits

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  How to Create Something Valuable from an Irritant

  Wrapping up our tour through BJ Fogg’s brilliant mind and equally brilliant book Tiny Habits, Today we’re going to talk about something he calls “Pearl Habits.” I love this idea. In fact, it’s basically his take on a recent +1 of ours called: The S → R Game in which we had some fun cr...

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  Rise to the Occasion

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  Be Your Very Best in the Darkest Moments

  In our last +1, we spent some more time with Admiral McRaven and invited Rocky to the party (via Desmond Clark) to share his wisdom on the fact that life will (inevitably!) knock us down and that it’s all about having the courage to GET BACK UP. Again. And again. And again. As I typed that out, I thoug...

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  Rocky on How Winning Is Done

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  Wisdom on Eating Sugar Cookies

  In our last +1, we spent some time with 4-Star Admiral William H. McRaven. We made some sugar cookies from the challenges life inevitably (!) serves up as we reminded ourselves that life’s not fair and that our job, when we’re inevitably (!) knocked down, is to drive on. We’ll come back to more wis...

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  You = Sugar Cookie

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  Life's Not Fair--Drive On!

  Admiral William H. McRaven is a Retired U.S. Navy SEAL who served for thirty-seven years and commanded at every level. As a Four-Star Admiral, his final assignment was as Commander of all U.S. Special Operations Forces. (During this time, he oversaw the covert mission that killed Osama bin Laden.) In 201...

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  What Doesn’t Kill Us

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  The New Psychology of Posttraumatic Growth

  In our last couple +1s, we talked about the fact that there are no eudaimonic treadmills and that a eudaimonic orientation is correlated with lower levels of depression. Eudaimonism for the win! We pulled that wisdom out of Stephen Joseph’s great book What Doesn’t Kill Us. I got that book aft...

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  Disaster =

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  Virtue’s Opportunity

  If you haven’t noticed, I can’t quite get enough of Stoic wisdom. In fact, I can’t quite get enough of ancient (Stoic) wisdom AND modern science—which is why I’ve been on a little streak of reading one positive psychology book then a Stoic book then another science of flourishin...

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  Your Secret Weapon

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  Thank You, Epictetus and Hermes

  In our last +1, we had some fun making our Optimize virtue compass. Recall the four cardinal points correspond with our four cardinal virtues. At the top, pointing North, we have Wisdom. At the bottom, pointing South, we have Self-Mastery. At the left, pointing West, we have Courage. At the right, pointi...

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  Fall Down Seven Times

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  Get Up Eight (OMMS!)

  In our last few +1s, we’ve been spending some time with world-class fear wolf-tamer, Mark Divine as we explore wisdom from his new book Staring Down the Wolf. Commander Divine tells us that there are seven commitments we need to make to forge elite teams: Courage + Trust + Respect + Growth + Excell...

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  The Two Wolves

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  Let’s Name Them (To Tame Them)

  In our last +1, we spent some time with Mark Divine and the two wolves within each of us. As I read that story, I made a note to include it as part of our Mastery Series. In Module II: Hero-ology, we have wisdom on How to Create Antifragile Confidence, Heroic Courage, and Response-Ability. It’s basical...

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  Staring Down the Wolf

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  Which One Are YOU Feeding?

  As we’ve discussed, I’m a big fan of Mark Divine. I can still remember reading Unbeatable Mind years ago shortly after blowing up the prior version of our business (hah and d’oh!). It provided a much-needed dose of mental toughness wisdom. Since reading that book and The Way of the SEAL...

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  Legitimate Suffering

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  Let’s Allow It and Stop Multiplying It

  In our last +1, we talked about falling UPWARD and the fact that life will (hate to continue to break the news to you) involve suffering. I mentioned the phrase Richard Rohr uses to capture the power of this. He calls it “necessary suffering.” That’s actually a play on some Carl Jung wi...

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  How to Fall Upward

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  Embrace “Necessary Suffering”

  Let’s go back to Richard Rohr and his wisdom from Falling Upward. We haven’t talked about the title of the book yet. “Falling UPWARD.” Isn’t that odd? Don’t we usually fall DOWN? Yes. Except when we fall UP. 🤓 The primary thesis of the book is that life involves FAL...

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  How We Endure

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  Olympic Moments: When Last Place = Historic Place

  Let’s go back to Kelly McGonigal’s The Joy of Movement. In addition to deepening my understanding of the science of WHY exercise/movement is SO ESSENTIAL and BENEFICIAL, I can’t remember reading a book that brought me to tears so many times. Kelly is both a brilliant scientist and a brillia...

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  OMMS Journaling

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  Science of: Gratitude, Suffering, and Redemption

  In our last couple +1s, we reflected on the fact that we’d be wise to remember that time flies and the fact that (newsflash!) we’re not going to live forever. That “contrasting” as the scientists call it, provides a healthy perspective shift that tends to force us into a more grat...

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