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  Brushing Our Brains

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  Here’s Your Brainbrush

  In our last +1, we spent some time with Emily Fletcher and reflected on her meditation wisdom that thoughts are not our enemies. As she tells us: “The single most important piece of meditation advice you can hold with you as you dive in is this: Thoughts are not the enemy. Remember that t...

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  Thoughts + Heartbeats

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  Meditating? Thoughts Are NOT Your Enemy!

  Emily Fletcher was a Broadway performer living the dream. Only… Her hair was graying at 27, she was always stressed and had chronic insomnia. One of her fellow Broadway performers was always super calm and confident. Emily asked her how she did it. The woman told her that she me...

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  Love Power

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  The Heartbeat of All Power

  In our last +1, we took a moment to celebrate the power of friends as we had fun with our new favorite phrase: “Friend Power.” I’m in love with the idea. Especially since I officially torched my hermitage. (Who knew connecting with awesome people on a regular basis could be so much...

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  Love & Modern Hērō

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  Friend Power

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  Will Power? Soul Power? Awesome But…

  In our last +1, we made history with Eliud Kipchoge (and a BUNCH of his friends) as we broke through “the last barrier of modern athletics” by running a marathon in less than two hours. (Go us!) I mentioned the fact that remarkable individual human achievement takes a lot of will power. And...

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  Practice Balls

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  Make that: PRACTICE Balls

  The other day I was walking home from our studio. It’s only a few minutes from our house near downtown Ojai, California. (Fun fact for curious souls, our studio-office is the former headquarters for David Allen’s Getting Things Done organization.) I’d just filmed 36 +1s. My brain w...

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  Words Matter - Part II

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  With What Words Are YOU Priming Yourself?

  Continuing our brief exploration of the power of placebo-words (and expectations), I’d like to go back to Harvard and walk from Benson’s lab in the Medical School back to Langer’s Psychology of Possibility Lab for a couple more bits of wisdom. Knowing that we’re all busy and ready to go...

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  How to Fix Your Knees

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  Aka: An Astonishing Study on the Power of Placebos

  In our last +1 we talked about placebos (“I shall be pleasing”) and nocebos (“I shall cause harm”). I promised to talk about what I consider one of the all-time most crazy-awesome studies. (Hah.) (Seriously.) We’ll revisit another Harvard professor for this on...

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  Placebo vs. Nocebo

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  “I Shall Be Pleasing” vs. “I Shall Cause Harm”

  In our last couple +1s, we’ve been spending time with renowned psychologist Ellen Langer talking about the power of words and the power of placebos. At this stage, most of us know that “the placebo effect” is, basically, the positive effect of simply believing something will help...

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  Science Says: Words Matter

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  A Lot More Than You May Think

  In our last +1, we talked about a few of my favorite “Pro” tips to Prosper as we looked forward at our 5-Year view (Prospectus!), moved forward with hope (Prosper!) and made some progress (Profit!). Today we’re going to step back a moment and briefly chat about WHY all those words matter ...

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  How to Prosper

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  Some “Pro” Tips (Via a Visit with my Dictionary)

  The other day we wrapped up the Fundamentals module of the Mastery Series phase of our Optimize Coach program. (That was a mouthful, wasn’t it?) (Hah.) Our Mastery students and aspiring Coaches and I went from Eat to Move to Sleep to Breathe to Be Present to… Prosper.

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  When the Facts Change

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  What Do You Do?

  Saving the longer philosophical chat about economic theories, Today we’re going to chat about a brilliant line from one of history’s most influential economists, John Maynard Keynes. He once (brilliantly) said: “I change my mind when the facts change. What do you do?” Be...

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  Nietzsche on Shedding One’s Skin

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  Me, You and Mr. Little Lizard

  This morning I hit the Trail for a super easy recovery day walk-hike. As I was cruising along enjoying the astonishingly perfect blue skies set behind the equally perfect brown-green landscape, I saw a lizard. Now, this was a funny-looking lizard. At first glance as he scurried by...

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  Despair --> Hope

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  The Best Bridge?

  In our last +1, we put on our Optimizing nerd glasses ( 🤓 !!!) and explored the etymological (and psychological) opposites: prosper and despair. We reminded ourselves that prosper literally means “to go forward with hope” while despair literally means “withou...

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  Despair vs. Prosper

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  Etymological (and Psychological) Opposites

  Not too long ago, we talked about the etymology of the word prosper. As you may recall (and I hope you do!), prosper literally means “to go forward with hope.” As such, prosperit...

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  Thought Alchemy

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  How to Change One Thought for Another

  In our last +1, we talked about my new go-to mantra: “Thank you.” You try it out yet? Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

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