+1 or -1 = Destiny Math: What Must YOU be? (#1)
The #1 Key to Happiness + Flourishing: Hint: Become BFFs with your Inner Soul (#2)
How to High Five Your Inner Daimon: My Philosophy in One Word (#3)
Your Infinite Potential: And Where to Find It (#4)
3:59.4 : How to Run a 4-Minute Mile and/or Do Other "Impossible" Stuff (#5)
WOOP! There It Is: The Science of Making Your Dreams a Reality (#6)
Handy Dandy Motivational Calculator: The Science of Solving the Procrastination Equation (#7)
Motivation = ENERGY x (Value x Expectancy / Impulsivity x Delay): A Modified Look at the Science of Motivation (#8)
Simmer vs. Boil: Let's Turn Up the Heat (#9)
Antifragile : vs. Resilient vs. Fragile (#10)
Psychological Flexibility: A Hallmark of Happy Humans (#11)
Keep Shooting: A True Story about Moving thru Some Serious Obstacles (#12)
Good Bad Days: A True Story about Moving thru Some Serious Obstacles (#13)
Really Hard vs. Impossible: Want to Go for a Bike Ride to Mt. Everest? (#14)
Did I Win?: How to Sink a $1m Putt and Do Other Great Things (#15)
Relentless Solution Focus: 60 Seconds of Whining and then You're On! (#16)
Bring Forth: How to Be a Wise Parent (for Yourself + Others) (#17)
Deo Volente + Thy Will Be Done: Wisdom from Apollo, the Patron God of Philosophy (#18)
How to Build Your Grit: How to Build Your Grit (#19)
How to Stop Thinking: The #1 Tip on How to Master this Important Lost Art (#20)
The Rise of Superyou: Introducing a New Mantra: “No Pressure, No Diamonds.” (#21)
Acres of Diamonds: Got Any Priceless Gems in Your Backyard? (#22)
Dominoes: Ready to Amplify Your Latent Potential by 2 Billion? (#23)
Gratitude: Science Says: It Works! (#24)
Grateful Flow: The Antidote to Ick Sauce (#25)
Celebratory Love: Gratitude’s Generous Cousin (#26)
"I'm Excited!": What to Say to Yourself When You’re Feeling Nerves (#27)
Emotional Stamina: What to Do When You’re Having a Rough Day (#28)
The Stockdale Paradox: I’m Confident It’ll Happen AND… I Know It Will be Challenging (#29)
Sharpening the Saw: /Building an Energetic Chainsaw (#30)
"Needs work!": What to Say to Yourself When Things Don’t Go as Planned (#31)
Active Love: How to Get Out of a Mental Maze When Someone’s Annoying You (#32)
The Science of Making Hope Happen: Three Keys: Goals + Agency + Pathways (#33)
The Science of Self-Compassion: Three Keys: Self-Kindness + Common Humanity + Mindfulness (#34)
Journal Lately?: Science Says: It’s one of THE Most Robust Ways to Boost Our Optimism (#35)
Deep Work: How to Escape Shallowville and Go Deep (#36)
Multitasking Is a Myth: What We Do Is Really Task Switching — And that Has a Big Cost (#37)
How to Schedule Your Best Work: Match Your Mental Energy to Your Task (#38)
Deep Work + Team Work + Monkey Work: What Goes When for You? (#39)
3 + 1 = Magic: How to Optimize Your Big 3: Energy + Family + Service (#40)
OMMS: The Hero’s Mantra (#41)
How to Stop Being a Hardaholic: The Magic Question: What If It Was Easy? (#42)
Compound Magic: The Power of Embracing the Mundane, Unsexy Pennies in Our Lives (#43)
Clock Time vs. Horticultural Time: How to Grow Yourself (#44)
Bright Lines: How to Make Good Contracts with Yourself (#45)
Commitments: 100% Is a Breeze: 99%? Not So Much. (#46)
Quick How to on Habits: 100% on ONE Keystone Daily Micro Habit (#47)
How to Avoid Habit Suicide: OK to Suck. Not OK to Skip. (#48)
Floors and Ceilings: How to Be an Imperfectionist (#49)
Perfectionist vs. Optimalist: Which Are You? (#50)
Two Easies: Easy to Do. Easy Not to Do. (#51)
The Most Dangerous Thing You Can Do While “Multitasking”: If So, Stop It! (#52)
Little by Little: The Buddha on How to Optimize (#53)
Speed Is a Force: The Force Is with You - Use It Wisely (#54)
The Law of Diminishing Intent: Goes Nicely with Massive Action (#55)
Greatness = Consistency on the Fundamentals: Universal + Specific (What Are Yours?) (#56)
How to Put on Your (Life-)Socks: Wisdom from the Greatest Coach Ever (#57)
Digging Foundations: Want to Build a Skyscraper? Dig Deep. (#58)
Mistakes? They’re Just Mis-takes: You As the Director of Your Life (#59)
Never Waste a Mis-take: It’s All Awesome Data! (#60)
The Obstacle Is the Way: Plus: The Paradox of Fire (#61)
"That's Like Me!": How to Optimize Your Self-Image (#62)
“That’s NOT Like Me!”: Part II on How to Optimize Your Self-Image (#63)
Smokeybot: The Little Guy Who Smokes the Tortoise and the Hare (#64)
Sacrifices vs. Decisions: There’s a Big Difference between the Two (#65)
Warriors vs. Librarians: Let’s Not Just Catalogue these +1s, Let’s LIVE Them (#66)
110-Year-Old You: Ready for Some Time Travel? (#67)
Law of Leadership: DWYSYWD: Do *You* Do What You Say You Will Do? (#68)
Making New Commitments: What to Do When You Need to Adjust Course (#69)
5-Minute Sweaty Conversations: How to Navigate those Challenging Chats (#70)
Wearing Scars As Medals: What a Hero Does with the Dragon Claw Marks (#71)
Now What Needs to Be Done?: Remember: Feelings Follow Behavior (#72)
Identity → Behaviors → Feelings: Not the Other Way Around (#73)
Spinny Fingers: How to Quickly Regain Your Balance When Life Spins You Around (#74)
Simplify the Battlefield: Wisdom from a SEAL Commander on What to Do in the Chaos of Life and War (#75)
Victim vs. Creator: Two Questions: "Why Me?" vs. "What Do I Want?" (#76)
Dust: A Secret Tool to Master Non-Attachment (#77)
AM + PM Bookends: How to Create Masterpiece Days: Start Here! (#78)
Today's the Day: What to Do When a (Daimon) Reporter Follows You Around All Day (#79)
Time Blocks: The #1 Power Tool for Great Days and a Great Life (You Using Them?) (#80)
Getting Started vs. Getting Finished: A Good Idea on How to Deal with Procrastination (#81)
Suffering = Pain x Resistance: An Important Lesson on How to Reduce Suffering (#82)
Name It to Tame It: How to Tame the Gremlins (#83)
Rumination: It's Time to Quit Chewing on Your Mental Cud (#84)
50 Pounds = A: How to Master the Fear of Art (#85)
What Shakespeare, Beethoven & Picasso Have in Common: Want to Create Something Great? Create a Ton. (#86)
Swimming Rats: How to Increase Your Endurance by 240x (!!!) (#87)
Hope: Leadership’s Secret Sauce: How to Increase Engagement from 1% to 69% (#88)
Ikigai: What's Your Reason for Getting Up in the Morning (#89)
Your Declaration of Independence: From Which Tyrannous Habits Will You Declare Your Independence? (#90)
The Pursuit of Happiness: Don’t Chase Happiness—Practice It (#91)
The Gift of Greatness: We’ve All Been Given It — Here It Is (#92)
The Science of Being Awesome: A Quick Look at Purposeful + Deliberate Practice (#93)
Adaptability + Homeostasis: Why Getting Out of Your Comfort Zone Is So Important (#94)
Mediocrity vs. Excellence: How to Avoid Getting Stuck in the Middle of a Rugged Mountain (#95)
Win or Learn: Three Questions to Ask after a Disappointing Performance (#96)
Turning Around Glitches: What True Confidence Looks Like and How to Build It (#97)
The Equanimity Game: How to Play It Like an Emperor (#98)
Time Affluence: It’s a Better Predictor of Your Well-Being than Financial Affluence (#99)
Euthymia: How to Live with Energized Tranquility (#100)
Deciding vs. Wishing: 3 Steps on How to Get What You Want (#101)
Systems vs. Goals: Why Goals Are for Losers and How to Become a Winner (#102)
Moist Robots: How to Program Yourself for Awesome (#103)
The iPhone Effect: How to Immediately (+ Easily) Boost the Quality of Your Interactions Today (#104)
Resistance Breathing: How to Work Out the Most Underappreciated Muscle in Your Body (#105)
Reverse Indicators: How to Interpret Your Encounters with Dragons (#106)
Hērōs: Building Strength for 2 (#107)
Hērōic Reframing: How to Build Antifragile, Heroic Confidence (#108)
Being Exonerated: Is NEVER Going to Happen (Sorry to Break the News!) (#109)
Desirable Difficulties: How to Turn Weakness into Strength (#110)
Self-Efficacy: The Science of Confidence (#111)
Your Best Possible Self: Science Says: This Is a Powerful Way to Boost Your Optimism (#112)
Making Yourself Proud: How Can You Make Yourself Proud Today? (#113)
Mental Contrasting: The Science of Turning Dreams into Action (#114)
Smile!: A Surprisingly Powerful Way to Boost Your Mood (#115)
The Right Why: vs. The Wrong Why (Yours?) (#116)
Chore vs. Gift: Choosing the Right Why Turns Your Behaviors from One to the Other (#117)
Heroes Have Quests: What's Yours? (#118)
Pull Power: Is Your Future Pulling at You? (#119)
Pulling Power: It Goes Nicely with Pull Power (#120)
Dynamic Tension: Your Hoped-for Future and Your Current Reality (#121)
Dynamic Equilibrium: You As a Tightrope Walker (#122)
Arambhashura: Let's Be Heroes All the Way to the Summit (#123)
Follow Your Bliss: Jump into Enlightenment (#124)
Follow Your Grunt: Bliss + Grunt + Grunt = Magic (#125)
How to Be Cool: Hint: Be Kind (#126)
Lion vs. Jungle: Be Nice to Your Limbic System, Please (#127)
How to Discover Your Deep Work Style: Hermit. Bimodal. Rhythmic. Journalistic. (Yours?) (#128)
What's Your #1 Self-Care Habit?: Perhaps the Most Important Questions We Can Ask Ourselves (#129)
What's Your Partner’s #1 Self-Care Habit?: Another VERY Important Question (#130)
How's Your Hedgehog?: 3 Circles on What You’re Here to Do (#131)
Whose Business Are You In?: Three Options: Yours + Someone Else’s + God’s (#132)
The Serenity Prayer: Serenity + Courage + Wisdom = A Winning Combo (#133)
Falling in Love vs. STANDING in Love: One’s a Lot Easier than the Other (#134)
Repairing Relationships: A Key Practice for Optimizing the Love in Our Lives (#135)
Your Genius Zone: Making the Big Leap (#136)
How to Turn Life-Lemons into Optimizade: Instant Recipe with One Ingredient-Question (#137)
Want Willpower: Play Offense not Defense: How to Win the Willpower World Series (#138)
Feelings Fade: But Only If You Let Them (#139)
Stop Stopping: Be Not Afraid of Going Slowly. Be Afraid Only of Stopping. (#140)
Put Your Virtues in Action: How to Flex Your Flourishing Muscles (#141)
How to Eat Stress Like an Energy Bar: Reappraisal + Paradoxical Stress Swap (#142)
Why Exercise Is So Good for You: The Easiest, Most Powerful Way to Balance Your Brain (#143)
Movement > Exercise: Let’s Not Be Active AND Sedentary (#144)
Opportunities to Move: Look for OTMs and Their Super-fit Cousin OTWs (#145)
There Are No Perfect People: And… Newsflash: You Will Not Be the First (#146)
How to Become an Iconoclast: The Science of Breaking Icons (#147)
Metaphysical Gluttony: How to Stop OptiBinging and Have More Fun Optimizing (#148)
Treadmills: You, Will Smith and Smokeybot (#149)
Hedonic Adaptation: Stepping Off the Treadmill to Count Our Blessings (#150)
Digital Sabbaticals: Taking Breaks from Focus NOT from Distraction (#151)
Digital Sunset: Bedtime for Your Electronics (#152)
Now, What Doesn’t Need to Get Done?: Tip: Don’t Do Useless Stuff (#153)
Recommitment: Commitment Is Easy - It's ALL about Recommitting (#154)
Precommitment: Making Contracts with Odysseus + Ourselves (#155)
Sirens: What Song Do They Sing to YOU? (#156)
Implementation Intentions: The Power of “If… Then…” (#157)
Deep Love Time Blocks: When’s Your Next Time Block? (#158)
Courage: How to Pump Energy to Your Virtues (#159)
Presence: Expanding into Your Best Self (#160)
Self-Affirmation Theory: The Science of Affirmations that Actually Work (#161)
The 80/20 Principle: What Works? Do More of That (#162)
80/20 Kryptonite: What Needs to Go? Do Less of That (#163)
Parkinson's Law: Reduce Time to Increase Output (#164)
Flow: What It Is & How to Get in It (#165)
iHunch: What Not to Do If You Want to Be Powerful (#166)
Epigenetics: Stand Above Your Genes & Make Them Dance (#167)
Procrastipain: The Pain Is in the Anticipation—NOT in the Doing! (#168)
You + Your Future Self in an fMRI: Does Your Future Self Look More Like a Stranger or You? (#169)
Eating Sugar in an fMRI Machine: How to Turn Off Your Addiction Center (#170)
The Marshmallow Test: Can You Wait for Two? (#171)
Rebound Days: How to Approach the Day AFTER a Sub-Optimal Day (#172)
Higher Highs and Higher Lows: Embracing the Tides of Our Lives (#173)
Scaffolding: Constructing Your Destiny (#174)
How Caffeine Really Works: And When (Not) to Have It (#175)
Want to Improve? Measure: The Power of a Pedometer and Other Measuring Devices (#176)
How to Add a Month to Your Year: In One Simple Step (#177)
Eliminate Delay: To Increase Motivation and Jumbo Crushing (#178)
Chunk It!: Break Your Epic Goals into Bite-Size Chunks (#179)
Thinking vs. Doing: Lessons from a Beach Ball (#180)
Energizers vs. Enervators: The Art & Science of How to Take a Good Break (#181)
Wings and Lottery Balls: How to Bounce Your Way to Winning the Game of Life (#182)
How to Get Super Shiny: Hint: Don’t Get Irritated by Every Rub (#183)
The Ultimate Jihad: Winning the Battle with Ourselves (#184)
The Angel's Advocate: How to Wave the Wand of Awesome (#185)
100 Questions: An Exercise to Create a Meaningful Life (#186)
The Zeigarnik Effect: How to Use It to Your Optimizing Advantage (#187)
Reduce the Variability of Your Behavior: To Increase the Likelihood of Rocking It (#188)
States vs. Traits: How to Quit Being a Cannonball (#189)
Approach vs. Avoidance: What Do You Do When You Feel Challenged? (#190)
Infinite Optionality: The Ticket to Antifragility (#191)
Death Cookies: Fuel for the Journey to Your Infinite Potential (#192)
Antifragile Barbells: How to Craft an Optimal Strategy for Life and Other Important Things (#193)
The Big Picture: Zoom In + Zoom Out (#194)
Microscopes + Telescopes: Another Way to Zoom In + Zoom Out (#195)
Adding Triggers: Finding Ways to Make the Good Things Super Easy (#196)
Removing Triggers: Making it Really Hard to Do the Not-So-Good Things (#197)
Visions of a Lifetime: Marcus Aurelius on the Present Moment (#198)
#Arrows and Our Friend Apollo: A Handy Tool for Rocking It (#199)
The 5 (Greek) Keys to Optimizing: Areté + Eudaimonia + en*theos + Hērōs + Euthymia (#200)
Creative vs. Reactive: Choose One Before the Other (If You Want to Actualize Your Potential) (#201)
Death at the Crossroads: How to Create a Calm, Confident, Purpose-Driven, Enthusiastic Life (#202)
You As Your Three Heroes: Who Are Yours? (Here Are Mine) (#203)
I Care So Much: That I Just Don’t Care (#204)
To Thine Own Self Be True: The Very First Quote I Ever Memorized (#205)
Robot, Do This!: How to Put Your Awesome Ideas to Work (#206)
Idiosyncratic Optimizing: Creating Your Own Unique Mixture of Awesome (#207)
The 10,008 Hour + 36 Min Rule: The #2 Factor on What Makes Great Performers Great (#208)
Memento Mori: Want to Live? Remember Death (#209)
You + Michelangelo + Your Potential: What’s in the Way of You Being Your Best? (#210)
Chiseling Character: Another Greek Etymology Lesson (#211)
Eulogy Virtues: How to Chisel on Your Road to Character (#212)
Today's To-Be List: Goes Nicely with Your To-Do List (#213)
Success List: Throw Away Your To-Do List & Focus Here (#214)
Proving Yourself Right: vs. “I Hope This Works Out Alright” (#215)
Take a Nap!: And Change Your Life (#216)
Sleep: Before + After Edison: Know How Much Your Great Grandparents Slept? (#217)
Be Proactive (aka Response-Ability) : Habit #1 of Highly Effective People (#218)
Begin with the End in Mind: Habit #2 of Highly Effective People (#219)
Put First Things First: Habit #3 of Highly Effective People (#220)
Think Win/Win + : Habits #4 + #5 of Highly Effective People (#221)
Synergy: When 1 + 1 = 3 (or Even 4): Habit #6 of Highly Effective People (#222)
Sharpen Your Saw Again (Please): Habit #7 of Highly Effective People (#223)
Rest Before You’re Tired: Remember Your Heart and Its Billions of Beats (#224)
How to Avoid Burnout: Micro + Mid + Macro Recovery (#225)
Carpe Diem: Seize the Day! (Or Is It “Pluck the Day”?!) (#226)
Carpe Punctum: You Can’t Seize Days—Only Moments (#227)
There Are No Enlightened Beings: Only More or Less Enlightened Moments (#228)
Virtuous vs. Vicious: Which Are You? (#229)
Marginal Gains: Here’s How to Win (#230)
Simplex vs. Complex: How to Make Our Lives an Elegantly Simple Masterpiece (#231)
Thanks! Thanks! And Thanks!: Three Ways to Give Thanks Today (#232)
Gandhi Binge Watching TV Shows: It’s Not Going to Happen (How About You?) (#233)
If We Worked Together 1-on-1: I’d Ask You This Question (#234)
Regret, Science Of: And the Wisdom of Mark Twain’s Trade Winds (#235)
Circadians + Ultradians: The Rhythms of Life (#236)
Making Waves: And Riding them to Your Highest Potential (#237)
The 4.5-Hour Workday: Science Says: It's the Magic Number for Greatness (#238)
"Shut-Down Complete!": Your New End-of-the-Day Ritual (#239)
Our Minds Must Relax: Seneca on How to Avoid Mental Dullness and Lethargy (#240)
Utter Commitment, Psychology Of: The Power of Focusing Your Life Force (#241)
Elon Musk + The Sun’s Power + You: A Gigacrazy Amount of Energy Waiting to Be Utilized (#242)
Excusitis: Warning: Fatal to Success (#243)
Extreme Ownership: Navy SEAL Wisdom on Leadership (#244)
On a Bad Team?: SEALs Say: No Bad Team, Just Bad Leaders (#245)
Seneca on Flexibility: Versus Fickleness + Obstinacy (#246)
Aristotle’s Virtuous Mean: Versus the Vices of Excess + Deficiency (#247)
Limitless Qualities: And Their Enemies: Near and Far (#248)
Celebrate Confusion: Tony Robbins Says It’s Your Gateway to Clarity (#249)
Incremental to Bam!: Notes on a Baby Learning to Crawl (#250)
Combination Locks: Ideas that Open the Doors to Your Infinite Potential (#251)
Consistency over Intensity: The Secret Sauce to Awesome Sauce (#252)
Your Dreamer + Your Doer: How to Build Your Confidence: Have Both in Mind Today (#253)
Act As If: What Quality Do You Want? (#254)
Time Traveling: How to Make Yourself Younger (#255)
Practice What You Preach: A Sermon on the Good Samaritan (#256)
De Minimis Non Curat Optimizers: Let’s Not Concern Ourselves with Trifles (#257)
You vs. Your Problems: Size Yourself Up then Step Up! (#258)
Remember Who Dug the Wells: And Give Back in Equal Measure (#259)
Strengths + Weaknesses: Lincoln, Grant, Iovine & Dr. Dre (#260)
Success Math: How to Calculate the Odds of Your Success (#261)
Cucumbers & Pickles: Your Brain on Addiction (#262)
World Champion You Training Camp: What Would Your Life Look Like If THAT Was the Standard? (#263)
Prior Best = New Baseline: Your Best Days? That’s Your New Normal (#264)
Swords vs. Sporks: Which Are You Forging? (#265)
Champions Do More: Got 10 Reps? Give Me 11! (#266)
Ready Fire Aim: How to Start a Donut Shop (#267)
The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Here They Are: 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 (#268)
Keep Score: And Watch Your Performance Soar (#269)
2 Scorecards: One for the Lead + Another for the Lag (#270)
WIG vs. Whirlwind: Which One Wins? (#271)
Kryptonite Dust: Time for the SuperOptimizer’s Vacuum (#272)
Time Management Drucker Style: The 1 + 2 + 3 for Effectiveness (#273)
The Power of Micro Wins: Wisdom from the Head of Research at Harvard Biz School (#274)
First Things First: Second Things? Not at All (#275)
What’s Important Now? (Part 2): How to Win 28 Olympic Medals (#276)
Chasms vs. Sidewalk Cracks: Jump! It’s Not As Wide As You Think (#277)
Get to the Starting Line: The Most Challenging Part of a Race (#278)
Teflon vs. Velcro: We’re Wired to Hold On to Negative Stuff (#279)
How to Flourish: Science Says: PERMA (#280)
How to Learn Optimism: Enter: The 3 P’s: Permanence + Pervasiveness + Personalization (#281)
How to Be Charismatic: Science Says: Presence + Power + Warmth (#282)
Micradian Rhythms: The Rhythms of Life: Circadian + Ultradian + Micradian (#283)
How’s Your Genius?: High Fives From Me to You Guys (#284)
How Are You Intelligent?: The 2 Steps to Getting in Your Element (#285)
Genius Dress Code: Save Your Brain Cells for Stuff That Matters (#286)
Decision Fatigue: Put Your Basal Ganglia to Work (#287)
Just Get Started!: vs. Just Do It (#288)
“It’ll Only Take a Minute”: Yah, Right. (#289)
Self-Determination Theory: The Science of Intrinsic Motivation (#290)
How to Add 11 Years to Your Life: Count How Many Times You Check Your Phone Today (#291)
The Happiness Archetype: vs. Rat Racer + Hedonist + Nihilist (#292)
The Fun Meter: Your Ticket to a Fortune of Joy (#293)
Newton's First Law: As Applied to Your Life (#294)
Newton's First Law: Fine Print: Eliminate Distractions to Stay in Motion (#295)
Carpe Momentum: Execute the Task at Hand & High Five Mr. Mo (#296)
Percussus Resurgo: “Struck Down, I Rise Again!” (And Again.) (#297)
How to Make Good Decisions: Think: Boundary Conditions (Thanks, Drucker!) (#298)
The Inner-net vs. The Internet: One Has All the Real Answers (#299)
Play Well the Given Part: Be an Artist of Your Life (#300)
Just a Drop: Little by Little We Fill Our OptiPot (#301)
A Drop of WD-40 for Your Mind: Sanskrit Says: Dukkha vs. Sukha (#302)
Starve Fear: Of Its Favorite Food (#303)
Farts and Facebook Likes: How’s Your Ratio? (#304)
Spiritual Farts: Let’s Move from Theory to Practice (#305)
You and Your Donkey: A Parable on Trusting Yourself (#306)
You and an Elephant: A Parable About Blind Guys and Perspective (#307)
Flea Baths: Need to Give Yourself One? (#308)
The Definition of Hell: Meeting the Person You Could Have Become (#309)
The 2nd Arrow: Quit Shooting Yourself with It (#310)
Ideal Performance State: Emotional Consistency and Peak Performance (#311)
5 Steps to Success: Ray Dalio’s Model for Supercrushing (#312)
Riddikulus!: Harry Potter on How to Deal with Fear (#313)
Got a Fear?: Name It to Tame It Harry Potter Style (#314)
Expecto Patronum!: How to Deal with the Dementors in Your Life (#315)
Phoenix Rising: How’s Your Burning Day Going? (#316)
Quantum Optimizing: Big Things Come Through the Little Things (#317)
The Voice of Consistency: vs. The Angel vs. The Devil (#318)
You Think You’re at an 8: But You’re Really at a 2 (#319)
You, Buddha and Your Fundies: Why Buddha Kept Meditating Post-Enlightenment (#320)
How to Center Yourself: Make It a Game - Here’s How to Play (#321)
A Wealth of Information: Creates a Poverty of Attention (#322)
Why We Err: Necessary Fallibility + Ignorance + Ineptitude (#323)
Masterpiece Day Checklist: How to Reduce Masterpiece Day Mortality Rates by 47% (#324)
The Psychology of Hope: Goals + Willpower + Waypower (#325)
Napitations: Nap + Meditation = Magic (#326)
1-Minute WOOP: Inhale. Exhale. W O O P! (#327)
Mental Toughness Training: Here’s a 100-Second Workout for Your Mind (#328)
Warren Buffett on Goal Setting: Three Steps to Clarity (#329)
Hit the Rock: A Parable on How to Get Clarity (#330)
How to 100,000x Your Performance: 2 AI’s + 100 Algorithms (#331)
Meet Mr. Royal H. Burpee: Your BFF for Energy (#332)
The Empowerment Dynamic: vs. The Dreaded Drama Triangle (#333)
Victim vs. Creator: The Question that Separates the Two (#334)
Meet Your Telomeres: Your New BFFs - Think: Aglets + Offensive Linemen (#335)
Threat vs. Challenge: How to You Respond to Life’s Stressors? (It Matters!) (#336)
Cancer-Fighting Mindset: Pulling Levers in Our Lives (#337)
Anticancer Levers: Pull These Four (#338)
Genes vs. Habits: Which Matters More for Cancer? (#339)
How to Win the Cancer War: Cut Off Cancer’s Supply Lines (#340)
Anticancer Nutrition: Our 80/20 Strategy = Do These Three Things (#341)
Cancer Statistics & You: Information vs. Condemnation + Target: Long tail (#342)
Cancer’s Roots & Leaves: Modern Medicine: Strengths + Weaknesses (#343)
Crisis: = Danger + Opportunity (#344)
No More Ice Cubes, Please: More on Root Causes vs. Symptoms (#345)
The SCIENCE of Behavioral Change: Optimize These 7 Psychological Forces (#346)
Neurohacks: How to Program Your New Identity (#347)
The Four Agreements: In Less Than Four Minutes (#348)
Spiritual Economics: Your New Wealth Vocabulary (#349)
Wealth thru Profound Service: Three Mindsets: Passion + Craftsman + Servant (#350)
Psychological Billionaires: The Science of How to Become One (#351)
The Affluenza Virus: Four Ways to Inoculate Yourself (#352)
Entelechy: Aristotle Says: It’s the Life Force Pushing You to Actualize (#353)
Musterbation: + Shoulding on Yourself (#354)
The Decade View: What’s YOURS look like? (#355)
5 Core Habits: How to Consistently Create GREAT Days (#356)
Big 3: Decade View + Core Habits: Energy + Love + Work ← Yours? (#357)
Psycho-Cybernetics: How to Guide Your Life Like a Missile (#358)
Self-Image 101: How to Create the New You (#359)
Isn’t That Extreme?: No, It’s Not — This Is (#360)
Resurrections and Crucifixions: Can’t Have One without the Other (#361)
How to Deal with Either/Or Situations: Step Back. Think. Get As Much of BOTH As Possible (#362)
Fear & Expectations: How to Move from Fear to Excitement (#363)
Ink Blobs & Emptiness: What Do You See When You Look at That Blob of Ink that Is Life? (#364)
Fingers and Lectures: Remember: Attend Your Own Lectures (#365)
How to Child-Proof Cover Your Trigger Buttons: Annoyed? Ask: How Am I That? (#366)
Optimize = Optimus: = The Best Version of You (#367)
Zero-Based Thinking: What Goes if You Started at Zero? (#368)
Endlessly Evolving Process: The Essence of a Good Life (#369)
Mistake-Learner’s High: Enjoy It as You Pursue Audacious Goals and Endlessly Evolve (#370)
Eat that Frog: The Secret Ingredient for a Great Day (#371)
Single-Mindedly One Touching: What’s Important? Start. Finish. (Repeat.) (#372)
How to Get Rid of Your ADD: Hint: Get Rid of Your Other ADD (Addiction to Digital Devices) (#373)
Make the Connection: What’s Working? What Needs Work? (#374)
You, a Farmer and His Horse: A Zen Fable on Good and Bad Luck (#375)
What to Do When You’re Flowing: Stay in the Zone - Keep Hammering (#376)
Parkinson’s Law + 80/20 Principle: = Productivity Magic (#377)
Seneca on How to Give Advice: Like One Patient to Another (#378)
Stoic Spas: Are More Like Hospitals (Check Yourself In Yet?) (#379)
Seneca Says: Be Harsh with Yourself at Times: (With Self-Compassion, of Course) (#380)
Seneca: The Worse a Person Is the Less He Feels It: Aurelius: Don’t Like Yourself? Why Would I Care Whether or Not You Like Me? (#381)
Conquering Cancer: Part II: Shocking Stats + Rethinking Cancer: Theory + Therapy (#382)
Bad (Cancer) Math: $100 Billion + $100 Billion = 0 (#383)
Genes vs. Habits: Part II: Pop Quiz: What % of Cancer is Genetic? (#384)
Two Theories on the Origins of Cancer: Genes vs. Metabolism <-- What’s the REAL Cause? (#385)
Otto Warburg and PET Scans: And Hot Spots of Glucose Metabolism (#386)
Genes vs. Habits Part III: Making the Connection Between Habits and Metabolism (#387)
Recon Cells + Cybrids: Cytoplasm vs. Nucleus: Which Drives the Cancer Show? (#388)
The 80/20 180°: First Steps in Moving from Theory to Therapy (#389)
Cancer’s Achilles: How to Exploit: Metabolic Inflexibility: Ketones + Glucose (#390)
Radical Remission: Exemplars, Long Tails and The Science of Self-Efficacy (#391)
Blissipline: Bliss + Discipline = Secret Sauce (#392)
Work Diligently, Patiently and Persistently: And You’re Bound to Be Successful (#393)
Start Again: And Again and Again and Again… (#394)
Strong Determination: How’s Yours? (#395)
Impermanence: “Anicca, Anicca, Anicca” (#396)
Seeds of (Metaphorical) Corn: You Planting Yours? (#397)
The Parable of the Talents: Using Yours? (#398)
Bonzai Trees, Goldfish, and You: How to 100x Your Awesome (#399)
How to DDR Like a Ninja: Here’s What 11 Looks Like (#400)
Love 2.0 (vs. Love 1.0): Ready to Upgrade Today? (#401)
Oops to Optimizing: Squeezing a Little Lemon on Your Life Salad (#402)
Capacities Clamoring to Be Used: Answering Your Soul’s Cries (#403)
Caterpillars, Butterflies and You: (And Maslow, Aristotle, Stoics and Others) (#404)
The Dreaded “U-Lag" on Your Heroic Quest: And How to Conquer It (#405)
The Inverted U: And You, Rats, Caffeine, Etc. (#406)
Styrofoam Weights: And Your Optimize Gym™ Membership (#407)
Gandhi and Sugar: And You and… _______________ (#408)
It Is What It Is: The Power of Loving What Is (#409)
Command & (/or) Obey: It’s Always Your Call, Boss (#410)
Livestreaming Your Life: Smile. You’re on Candid Optimizing Camera! (#411)
“This is my way; where is yours?”: “… For the way — that does not exist.” - Nietzsche (#412)
Are You a Should-Head?: Yoda, You and the Extra Degree that Burns thru Ambivalence (#413)
Inspiration Clock: What Time Does It Strike for You? (#414)
Your Grand Purpose: How to Turn Apparent Misfortune into Great Fortune (#415)
The Paradox of Choice: Maximizer vs. Satisficer <- Which Are You? (#416)
Patient vs. Conqueror (+ Doctor): Submit vs. Conquer (+ Teach) (#417)
Vulnerability Hangovers: Ever Had One? (#418)
Motivation Equation (Yet Again!): It’s Hammer Time (#419)
WOOPy WOOP!: WOOP! There It Is … Again! (#420)
WIN! WIN! WIN!: What’s Your Next Most Important Thing? (<- Crush That. Repeat.) (#421)
Levity + Gravity = Buoyancy: To Sell Is Human — The New ABCs (#422)
Self-Talk: Interrogative Style: Ask Yourself Questions Lately? (#423)
Antifragile Buoyancy: How’s Your Barbell? (#424)
It’s Always Hard: Before It’s Easy (#425)
Bouncers and Lawyers in Your Head: Pay Them Well to Keep the Optimizing Party Going (#426)
Tibetan Word for “Guilty”: <- Doesn’t Exist — Here’s the Closest Thing (#427)
Antifragile Affirmactions: How to Use Micro-Moments of Frustration to Grow (#428)
Are You an Ambivert?: Extroverts, Introverts, and Ambiverts (#429)
Chewing on 100k Words Per Day: Lions, Kings, Monks and Original Thoughts (#430)
Going the Second Mile: Jesus Says: It’s the Way to Roll (#431)
Compete? Nah. Create!: A Key to the Science of Getting Rich (#432)
Unilaterality: Think: Extreme Ownership Relationship Style (#433)
The Principle of Correction: Think: Needs Work for Mis-takes (#434)
Other Image 101: What Do You See in the Faces of Those You Meet? (#435)
Railroad Spikes: Are Good for Pounding (#436)
Stephen King’s Spikes: Hammering Rejection to the Wall (#437)
Jesus Said: Who Shall Inherit the Earth?: Was It the “Meek” or the “Disciplined”/”Tamed”? (#438)
Rat Poison: Eat Any Lately? (#439)
Exercise vs. Zoloft: Feeling Depressed? Pop Your Exercise Pill! (#440)
The Two Goddesses of Wealth: Which One Are You Pursuing? (#441)
WARNING: Noisy Environments: Can Diminish Your Performance (#442)
“The Good Life Is a Process: It Is a Direction, Not a Destination.” - Carl Rogers (#443)
Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Motivation: Want to be Psychologically Stable? Focus Here. (#444)
Sentence Completions: If I Brought 5% More Awareness to… (#445)
The Law of Psychological Reactance: The Importance of Reinforcing Autonomy (#446)
FEAR -> DARE: ACT on How to Make the Switch (#447)
Your New Taste Buds: Just Give ‘em 2 Weeks (#448)
Rule #1 of Nutrition: Fountain of Youth vs. Poisons (#449)
Food Poisons Part 2: What You Might Want to Consider Eliminating (#450)
451°: Here’s to Your Burning! (#451)
The Space: Between Stimulus and Response (#452)
Forest Bathing: Give Yourself a Nice Bath Lately? (#453)
90% Done?: Paulo Coelho Says: Consider Yourself Halfway There (#454)
The Master: vs. The Dabbler, the Obsessive and the Hacker (You?) (#455)
The (Lucky) Master’s Path: Walk 1 Mile and Destination Is 2 Miles Farther Away (#456)
The Master’s Plateau: Let’s Learn to Love It (#457)
The Master’s Steps: Two Forward, One Back (Sometimes Vice Versa) (#458)
25 Min = 2 YEARS: Your #1 Time Waster? Keep that Math in Mind (#459)
Delete THAT App: Yah. That One. (Remember: 25 Minutes = 2 YEARS) (#460)
How NOT to Show Up for a Meeting: Hint: Don’t Be Drunk (Lessons from a World Leader) (#461)
The Thread Thru Your Head: Pull It Up for Poise and Relaxed Power (#462)
Doing What You Love: How Can You Get Paid to Do It? (#463)
Aristotle’s “Happiness”: Isn’t Quite What You Think (#464)
Virtuous Activity of the Soul: Aristotle on How to Be Happy (#465)
Aristotle’s Doctrine of the (Virtuous) Mean: vs. The Vices of Excess and Deficiency (#466)
Buddha on: Making Arrows Straight: Carving Wood and Irrigating Water (#467)
Are You Pusillanimous?: Much Better to be Magnanimous (#468)
We Are What We Repeatedly Do: Excellence, then, Is Not an ACT but a Habit (#469)
How to Win the Olympic Games: Hint: Compete (#470)
When Things Go Wrong: Appreciate How Rarely They Do (Optimizade Style) (#471)
Confucius Says: The Original Optimizer on Intensity (#472)
Confucius on the Long Game: Play It with Intensity (#473)
Confucius's #1 Tip: The Way of the Master Consists of… (#474)
Want Recognition?: Focus on Being WORTHY of It (#475)
How to Make Progress: Confucius Says It’s Simple: Just Keep Going (#476)
Virtuous, Charismatic Power: via Effortless Effort (Wu-Wei + De) (#477)
Trying Not to Try: 4 Different Approaches to Wu-Wei + De (Yours?) (#478)
How to Bottle Up Your Worries: You, Fog and Some Elevation (#479)
Put Your Name on a Sheet: For an Immediate Surge in Clarity and Energy (#480)
Reclaiming Lost Hours: By Making Everything (!) Our Practice (#481)
Digital Sabbath: The Johnson House on Sundays (Yours?) (#482)
Vagal Tone: The New Sexy (Meet Your 10th Cranial Nerve) (#483)
Your Optimal Breathing Rate: You Know It? Science Says… (#484)
The Rules of Breathing: The Big 3: Nose + Belly + Exhale (#485)
Want SuperWillpower NOW?: Here’s the Fastest Way to Get It (#486)
Breath Control = Emotional Control: See: Navy SEALs, All Elite Performers, YOU! (#487)
The Golden (+ Platinum!) Rule: How’re You Treating Others? AND… Yourself? (#488)
Nappuccino, Anyone?: Zambonis for Your Brain (#489)
Begin Before You Begin: How to Transition to the New You (#490)
Jobs, Careers, Callings: Which Do You Have? (Here’s How to Make It All Three) (#491)
Sweeping Streets with Martin Luther King: Like Shakespeare, Beethoven and Michelangelo (#492)
The Supercomputer in Your Head: And How to Turn It On (#493)
Science of Daydreaming: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (#494)
Conquering Hero vs. Suffering Martyr: Which Are You When Your Mind Wanders? (#495)
An Indestructible Mind: The Creation Of (#496)
Poison into Medicine: The Ultimate Alchemy (#497)
How to Discover Your Mission: 3 Steps to Clarity on Your Life’s Work (#498)
Batting .300: Is Hall of Fame Material (in Life + Baseball) (#499)
Thrown a Perfect Game Lately?: 210,000 Games Over 140 Years = How Many Perfect Games? (#500)
Gravity, Dark Energy and YOU: Plus: Contraction, Expansion, Entropy and Syntropy (#501)
Collecting Turnarounds: At the Speed of the Universe (#502)
For Whom the Siren Wails: Don’t Ask … It’s for You (#503)
Rehearsing Your Death: As a Way to LIVE (Seneca Says…) (#504)
Solvitur Ambulando: Latin for: “It Is Solved by Walking” (#505)
Father, Bless Me: For I Have Been Awesome (#506)
Avocados and Abundance: And You Joining Life’s Hall of Fame (#507)
Task Switching Is Expensive: A Super-Quick Exercise to Calculate the Costs (#508)
Eckhart Tolle on Food Poisoning: And on Thought + Behavior Poisoning (#509)
Demonstration vs. Instruction: Which One Do YOU Think the World Needs More Of? (#510)
CANI! + Kaizen!: Constant and Never-Ending Improvement (#511)
A Brief History of Lawns: Iconoclastically Expanding our Horizon of Possibilities (#512)
How to Revolutionize Your Life: Hint: Become an Ignoramus (#513)
The Two Maps of Your Life: Which One Are You Using? (#514)
Running Experiments: Like Good Scientific Sapiens (#515)
How to Live Forever: The Quest for Immortality (#516)
“Algorithm”: <- It's “Arguably the Single Most Important Concept in Our World” (#517)
Getting to the Bottom of Things: Vis-a-Vis Staying on Top of Things (#518)
How to Create a World-Class Mind: Hint: Train It for 10,000+ Hours (#519)
The $7 Trillion Mind-Hacking Industry: Addicted Users vs. Smashing Luddites vs. Optimizites < How Are YOU Showing Up? (#520)
Your Digital Addiction: Ancient Rome Says: It’s a Form of Slavery (#521)
To Sculpt or To Be Hacked?: < THAT Is the Question (Two Lists for Your Digital Optimizing) (#522)
The Power of Solitude: Clarity + Creativity + Emotional Balance + Moral Courage (#523)
Ambition + Routine: “Routine, in an Intelligent Person, Is a Sign of Ambition.” (#524)
Work or Play?: Masters in the Art of Living Dissolve the (Apparent) Dichotomy (#525)
The Science of Play: What’s YOUR Play Personality? (#526)
Bliss + Pain: Campbell on How to Find the Right Path (Hint: YES to Both) (#527)
Unicorns and Where to Find Them: Hint: On Mt. Everest (+ How to Give Your Stress Meaning) (#528)
Merpeople and Where to Find Them: Hint: Next to the Corral Reefs that are Challenged and Tested Daily (#529)
Hagfish Are Pretty Freaky: Got Any in Your Life? (#530)
Wisdom from My Mom and Thomas Carlyle: God Gave You Gifts. Give Them to the World! (#531)
Making Yourself Proud: How Will You Do So Today? (#532)
Your New BFF: Mine’s Named “Optimus” — Yours? (#533)
Dominating Your Life: It’s What You Do If You’re Powerful (#534)
Dominate = To Rule: Who’s Ruling Your Life? (#535)
How Byron Katie Does Her Dishes: Hint: She Dominates Them (#536)
Squirrels, Einstein and You: Two Mindsets: Training vs. Trusting (#537)
Working: Hard and Smart: How to Win Life’s Tournament (#538)
Jack Nicklaus Never Missed a 3-Foot Putt: Nor Did He Ever Three Putt on the Final Hole (#539)
Meet the 250-Foot Tall You: How to Connect with Your Infinite Self (#540)
Making (Life) Music with Jerry Garcia: Key Lyrics: Be You (#541)
You and Houdini: Slipping Out of Psychological Knots (#542)
Meet My New Watch: Mr. Suunto: What Direction Are You Headed? (#543)
Becoming a Champion: What’s Your Best REALLY Look Like? (#544)
Being a Champion: Is Way More Important Than Becoming a Champion (#545)
Catching Excellence: As We Chase Perfection (#546)
“Meh, I’m Good Enough.": Enter: Vomit in Mouth (#547)
Just Execute Your Game Plan: Wooden and Lombardi and You (#548)
Social Comparison Is Toxic: <- Science Says (#549)
Envy Begone: Antidote? Bless That Which You Want (#550)
Maximizing Minutes: Ben Bergeron + Dan Millman on Mastery (#551)
Positivity, Science of: For Peak Performance in Sports and in Life (#552)
The Golden You: Just Chip Away at the (Not-so) Bonus Layer (#553)
The Fastest Way to Optimize: Think: -1 -1 -1 = Infinite You (#554)
Strong Ego = Ticket to Divine: An Optimized Approach Your Ego + Id + Superego (#555)
How to Live with Radiant Enthusiasm: Hint: Create a Nice Home for God (#556)
How to Reclaim Lost Time, Energy + Brainpower: Pro Tip: Practice Saying “I Don’t Know” + “I Don’t Care” (#557)
How to Get Over Your FOMO: Hint: Get Clear on What You’re REALLY Missing Out On (#558)
A Cognitive Athlete Who Smokes: Let’s Not Be One (#559)
Full Effort = Full Victory: Gandhi, Matt Damon and Will Smith on Winning (#560)
We’re All Athlētēs: What Contest Are YOU In? (#561)
The Sound of Joy: You: The Wise Optimizing Mechanic (#562)
Artifice + Bliss: Remove One to Get the Other (#563)
Kamiwaza: Or, How to Be Godlike (#564)
The Icarus Deception: The Missing Part of the Myth (#565)
Memento Minima (+ Infinitus): Remember: We’re Tiny (+ Infinite!) (#566)
Dare to Be Healthy at 100: Party Planning + Birthday Invitations (#567)
How Old Would You Be: … If You Didn’t Know How Old You Were? (#568)
Goals Are for WINers: Except When They’re for Losers (#569)
Champ Champ Champ: Conor McGregor and the Big 3 (#570)
Pankration = "All Strength": Q: What Kind of Boxer Are You? (#571)
The Optimizer in the Arena: Daring Greatly Daily (#572)
Love 0.0 + 1.0 + 2.0 + 3.0: Optimizing our Love Operating Systems (#573)
Love Kryptonite: Strikes 8 Billion Times Per Day (in the US Alone) (#574)
You, Horseshoes & Autonomous Cars: Elon Musk and Yuval Noah Harari on Your Future (#575)
Soul Force: How’s Yours? (#576)
Transparent to the Transcendent: Joseph Campbell Asks: Are You? (#577)
Creating a Confident, Dignified Life: Via Buddha and Confucius at the Local Grocery Store (#578)
Zen in the Art of Spartan Spear Throwing: Choosing a Practice As a Portal to Optimizement (#579)
Average vs. Elite: How to Practice: Right vs. Wrong (#580)
You, Odysseus, Emerson & Icarus: The Pages Left in Your Hero’s Journey (#581)
How to Think About Your Flaws: Hint: Alchemize Them into Marginal Gains (#582)
The Little Things: Aren’t So Little (#583)
The Inside of an Apple: Is as Beautiful as the Outside (You?) (#584)
You and the Swami Spartan: Sri Swami Satchidananda on Life’s Obstacle Course (#585)
The Factory of Life: Two Gurus on How to Build the Best You (#586)
Making the Impossible Possible: How to Make It What’s for Breakfast in X Tomorrows (#587)
Flow Junkies: How to Attain Superyou Mastery Sans Misery (#588)
Deep Play: Have Fun Training Your Recovery! (#589)
The 4-Hour Workday: Zambonis for Your Brain (#590)
Morning Routines: The Keystone for Your 4-Hour Workday (#591)
Cog vs. Linchpin: Which Are You? (#592)
You and Jay-Z in the Studio of Life: 10,000 Daily Micro-Hero’s Journeys (#593)
10,000 Micro-Hero’s Journeys: The Phone Is Ringing All Day Every Day (#594)
The 1-Hour (Deep) Workday: 4 Hours Too Much? OK. Let’s Do 1!! (#595)
20,000 for 1: Having Fun Paying the Price (#596)
The Price of Success: Let’s Figure It Out and Pay It (#597)
How to Use Our Optimizing Tools: Hint: Practice THE MOMENT You Need It (#598)
Mirror Mirror on the Wall: I Shall Cover You So I Don’t Fall (#599)
Ballet, Anyone?: Head Threads + Power Poses + Being True to Form (#600)
The Mystery of the Hairy Fingers: You’ll Laugh About It in 5 Years So Why Wait? (#601)
The Ultimate Anabolic (Pseudo)Steroids: Aka: Training Your Recovery (#602)
The Golden Buddha: Part II: The Historical Reality + The Parable (#603)
Interleaving: A Key Way to Learn (#604)
Genius Is Self-Bestowed: Mediocrity Is Self-Inflicted (#605)
Parenting: 3 Tips: Lessons on How to Be a Great Dad (#606)
IQ vs. Willpower: One Is a Much Better Predictor than the Other (#607)
Running Your Willpower Offense: Strategic Considerations + Odysseus Contracts (#608)
The Optimize Teacher: Meet Mrs. Kristie Kuehnast (#609)
The Greatest Stock Market: Byron Katie’s Investment Strategy (#610)
AI vs. HC: A Quick Accounting (#611)
Obstacle Immunity: How’s Yours? (#612)
Useful Feedback and Trolls: How to Deal with Both (#613)
Trust Thyself: Every Heart Vibrates to that Iron String (#614)
There Are No Perfect Relationships: And Alexandra and I (or YOU!) Won’t Be the First to Have One (#615)
Editing Our Lives: And the Quest for Authenticity (#616)
Touchdown, Jerry Rice!: When? Every Time He Caught the Ball (#617)
Breaking Records: Then What? Get Back to Work (#618)
How to Win Forever: After Losing for Over 15 Years (#619)
Spiritual Sports: Rumi on Living with Intensity (#620)
How to Be Like Mike: Go All In (Skip the Gatorade) (#621)
The Growth Mindset: Jordan, Picasso and You (#622)
Depressed? Two Ways to Respond: Science Says: One Is Better than the Other (#623)
Depressed? Dan Millman Says…: Do Something! (Might As Well Have a Clean House, eh?) (#624)
Unfortunate vs. Unforgivable: Wasted Time and Waiting Any Longer (#625)
Driving with Your Brakes On: Anthony de Mello on Letting Go of Some Fear (#626)
“If I Had Zero Fear…”: I Would Do THIS! (#627)
A Fist Full of Fear: Dissolving into Joy as You Make the Leap (#628)
Sleeping with Tom Brady: And Roger Federer and LeBron James (#629)
Want to Be Great?: Find the Time. Find the Energy (#630)
Your Golden Seeds: Take Them Out of the Packet and Plant Them! (#631)
Your Seeds of Potential: Where Are You Planting Them? (#632)
Burning a Hole Through Your #1 Goal: What’s Most Important to You? Are You Focused on It? (#633)
Jason and the Argonauts (+ Pema Chödrön): Another Strategy to Deal with the Sirens (#634)
Daimon, Meet Genius: High Fives All Around (#635)
The Royal You: Wake Up and Find Yourself a True Prince(ss) (#636)
Ownish vs. Victimese: Learning a New Language (#637)
Yes Lives in the Land of No: Want a Big YES from Life?! Embrace the No’s. (#638)
Goeswith: Our New Wisdom Word (Thanks, Alan Watts!) (#639)
Campfires and Chairs: Remember: Spiritual Ones Need to Be Recreated Every Day (#640)
Your Soul’s Fire: The Spark Is Always There (#641)
Nietzsche’s Formula for Happiness: And: Hope and Goals, Science of (#642)
Super-Quick Hope Building Tip: How Have You Rocked It Lately? (#643)
The Optimal Work-to-Rest Ratio: 50 to 90 minutes ON + 7 to 20 minutes OFF (#644)
Boundaries or Burnout: 100% On + 100% Off <- Repeat (#645)
The iPhone Effect: Part 3: Want Connection + Power + Productivity? (#646)
Alarms: Work-Down vs. Wake-Up: One’s (at Least!) 10x Better than the Other (#647)
Making Money BECAUSE You Sleep: Sleeping with Jeff Bezos and Warren Buffett (#648)
Atomic Habits: Tiny = Mighty: You, a Quadrillion Times Better (#649)
Your Escort of Angels: How to Recruit Them (#650)
How to Predict Where You’ll End Up in Life: Hint: Observe Trajectory of Daily Choices Compounded for 20 Years (#651)
The Plateau of Latent Potential: An Important Concept to Understand (#652)
Want Better Habits? Start With Who: Identity = “Repeated Beingness” (#653)
Your Identity = ?: Whether You Think You Can or Think You Can’t… (#654)
Michael Phelps’ Golden Gene-Inseam: Swim Gods and Your Destiny (Pool) (#655)
The 4 Laws of Behavior Change: Make It: Obvious + Attractive + Easy + Satisfying (#656)
How to Build a Good Habit: Easy as 1, 2, 3 (#657)
How to Break a Bad Habit: Easy as 1, 2, 3 (#658)
“Hi, Optimus!”: How to Invite Him or Her to the Optimizing Party (#659)
How Clark Kent Becomes Superman in 11 Seconds: Flipping the (Superhero) Identity Switch (Then Reflipping/Ducktaping It So It Sticks All Day Every Day) (#660)
Navy SEAL Cookie Jars: David Goggins on Becoming Superman (#661)
The Goggins Process: Your Job: Push Past Your Normal Stopping Point (#662)
How to 800x Your Performance: aka How to Run 205 Miles Like Superhero Goggins (#663)
The Optimize Master’s Program: aka Moving from Theory to Practice (#664)
Turning on the Light: Two Thoughts on the Subject (#665)
Light and Darkness: And the Time Between the Two (#666)
EXPECT the Occasional Darkness: <- A Key Way to Deal with It (#667)
Emotional Stamina - Part 2: Execute Protocol: The Worse You Feel AND the Better You Feel (#668)
Three Forms of Discipline: Yoda Says: 1. Reactive + 2. Structural + 3. Expansive (#669)
Meditation’s Instant ROI: Trouble Falling Asleep? Cut It in Half! (#670)
The Magic Pill of Meditation: Do You Take It? (Science Says…) (#671)
Just Brush Your Brain: Meditation’s 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 (#672)
How Long Do I Have to Wait?: Patience + Perseverance = Commanding Weapon (#673)
Meet Leo(nidas): The Ultimate #OMMS Symbol (#674)
Meet My New Sweatband: Leonidas: What’s a Symbol for YOUR Jumbo-Commitments? (#675)
100 Pounds of Sand: The Story of Two Sandbags (#676)
Interbeing: Qi Gong, Thich Nhat Hanh, You, Me, and Rain Drops (#677)
A Quick Trip to Hell: How to Avoid That As Frequent/Ultimate Destination (#678)
A Quick Trip to Michelangelo’s Studio: Sculpting the Epic Version of You (#679)
The Moment of Decision: Is Where It’s At (#680)
The Perfectly Imperfect MasterpieceYou: Michelangelo's Imperfect Marble (and Rain-Soaked Studio) (#681)
Crimes Against Your Nature: Maslow on the Punishments of (#682)
1,000-Mile Swims: Maslow Says: Get to Work! (#683)
The Best Deal in Medicine: How to Get a 64,000 (!!!) Percent ROI (#684)
The Case Against Sugar: Is Very Strong #caseclosed (#685)
Conquering Fear: Your #1 Job (#686)
To Seek Fear: Is Step 1 in Conquering Fear (#687)
Fear: Stop or Go?: Which Sign Pops Up in Your Head? (#688)
Fear: Stop or Go? (Part II): Step on the Gas and Let’s Do This! (#689)
Your Engine: V-12 or V-Lawnmower?: Which Will It Be? (#690)
Fear Is Excitement: Without the Breath (#691)
JOMO vs. FOMO: Time to Make a Upgrade? (#692)
Channeling Mia Hamm: The Vision of a Champion (#693)
(Heroically) Fierce Ambition: What Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and FDR Had in Common (#694)
Lincoln’s Response to (Epic) Failure: “I must die or be better.” (#695)
Fear Doors - Part I: Walked Through Any Lately? (#696)
Fear Doors - Part II: The Really Scary Thing About Them (#697)
Fear Doors - Part III: Need to Walk Through One Today? (#698)
Hero Bars: Your Fuel for Fear Doors (#699)
UPERSIST!: How to Be Unstoppable (#700)
Reasons to Believe in Yourself: What Are YOURS? (← Eat Those Hero Bars!) (#701)
NEGU!: Never Ever Give Up (#702)
How Bad Do You Want It?: Mind Over Obstacles (#703)
The Fire Walk of Life: How Far Will You Go Today (and Tomorrow and..) (#704)
The Psychology of Pain: Want to Endure More Pain? Science Says: Brace Yourself (#705)
The Unreachable Walls: aka: Don’t Be a (Crazy) Perfectionist (#706)
The Audience Effect: Science Says: Eyeballs Optimize (#707)
The Optimus Medallion: Coming Soon to a Pocket Near You! (#708)
The Optimus Meditation: Aka the Optimize Virtue Meditation (#709)
Virtue Mantras: (Super Helpful!) Tools for the Mind (#710)
More on Mantras: via Eknath Easwaran (the Indian Joseph Campbell) (#711)
How to Train Your Mind: Remember the Elephant’s Trunk (#712)
Your Genius Zone - Part 2: What Is It You Can Uniquely Do? (#713)
Noli Timere: <- “Be Not Afraid” (= The #1 Phrase in the Bible) (#714)
Ambi vs. Heroic Valence: Multi-Faceted Strength for Two (#715)
Leonidas + Little Leo: The (Johnson) Optimizing Game (#716)
Your Daimon Zone: See You There!! (#717)
Shakespeare and Spartans: Laconic Poets Say: “Brevity Is the Soul of Wit.” (#718)
Instant Coward Recipe: Lombardi Says: Just Add Fatigue (#719)
Broken Monitors: Sometimes We Need to Ignore the Data (#720)
Encourage: To Inspire with Hope, Courage and Confidence (#721)
Encourage - Part 2: Making the Case for Elevating Its Status (#722)
When to Fix the Roof: Hint: When the Sun Is Shining (#723)
To Dare or Not to Dare: Whaddya Say… Shall we? (#724)
Your Marching Orders: Our Purpose Here on Earth (#725)
The Sorites Paradox: How to Get a Big Heap of Golden (You) Coins (#726)
Looking for Love (2.0): Finding Those Micro Moments of Positivity Resonance (TODAY!) (#727)
Meet My Bionic Arm (20 Screws Anyone?): Antifragile Response-Ability: THIS Is What We Train For! (#728)
Use It or Lose It, a Case Study: Aka: Where’d My Left Forearm Go? (#729)
Exiting the Cast of Our Comfort Zones: And Letting the Surge and Power of Life’s Challenges Fuel our Optimizing (#730)
The Best Deal in Medicine Part II: 1 + 10 + 100 + 1,000 + 10,000 + YOU (#731)
You, Me, Rabbits…: And Lopsided Arms Races (#732)
Ambition + Routine Part II: Fire Walking Our Way Through a Well-Organized #carpediem Day (#733)
Severe Pruning: Need To Do Any? (#734)
Grow Lights: On What Will You Shine Yours? (#735)
Pre-Wins: Yoda’s Laws of Action: Part 1 (#736)
Stringing Pearls: Yoda’s Laws of Action: Part 2 (#737)
Bring It On! (Punching Bag Style): Yoda’s Laws of Action: Part 3 (#738)
Grateful (Love) Flow: Yoda’s Laws of Action: Part 4 (#739)
To Read on an iPad at Night: Or To Read a Printed Book? ← That Is the Question (#740)
Sleep Q: How Little Light Is Too Much?: A: Not a Lot! (#741)
Think You Can Get By on Little Sleep?: Science Says: Think Again (Struck by Lightning Lately?) (#742)
Optimizing Z’s: 12 Tips: Your #1? (Tonight the Night?) (#743)
Sleep: Even Worms Do It: Plus: One-Eyed-/Half-Brained-Bird Sleep (#744)
Sleep: The Miracle Drug!: Let’s Pop The Metaphorical Pills to Reduce the Real Ones (#745)
Baselines: Best vs. Meh: Resetting vs Optimizing (#746)
Sleep: Crazy Stats: To Make Your Heart Skip a Beat (#747)
Sleep, Work, and Boiling Water: Medium vs. High Heat (You?) (#748)
Shelf Life vs. Your Life: Know This: Longer = Shorter (#749)
Food Rule #57: “Don’t Get Your Fuel from the Same Place Your Car Does” (#750)
The Two Facts of Nutrition: And the One Thing You’ll Do About Them Today (#751)
Food Rule #1: Eat Food: vs. Edible Foodlike Substances (#752)
Low Fat Made Us Fat: Really? Michael Pollan Says: Yep. (#753)
How to Make a Pearl: To Go with our Diamonds (#754)
How to Make Grit: Sand on Paper Applied to Your Life (#755)
How to Make a Life Omelet: Remember: Important Step = Break Some Eggs (#756)
Watering the Things That Matter: What Needs Some TLC Today? (#757)
Appreciate: Two Meanings: Want Things to Grow? Appreciate Them! (#758)
Whineysaurus Part X: Got a Name for That Whiney Guy/Gal Within? (#759)
Mr. Roger’s Creative Neighborhood: Won’t You Be a Creator? (#760)
Shaz-Optimus!: Superwords and Superpowers: “OPTIMUS!!! LET’S DO ARETE!!!” (#761)
The Art of Living: The Philosopher-Optimizer’s Canvas and Paints (#762)
The Happiness Diet: vs. The SAD + MAD Diets (#763)
Turning Frowns Upside Down: One Bite at a Time (#764)
Your Idiosyncratic Dharma: Honoring Our Sacred Duty (Yours?) (#765)
Your Deep Gladness: And The World’s Hunger (Where Do They Meet?) (#766)
Work and Worship: Praying with Every Second of Our Lives (#767)
Sir Ken’s Element: Love + Good x 2 (#768)
Living in a Dream World: It’s Nice to Remember (#769)
Perpetual Optimism: Colin Powell Says: It’s a Force Multiplier (#770)
Colin Powell on Hope: “It’s a Bad Supper, but Makes a Good Breakfast” (#771)
Let’s Try to Be Optimists: But Try Not to Be Stupid (#772)
The Physics of Success: Dominoes - Part 2 (#773)
Goal Setting to the Now: Someday > 5 Years > 1 Year > 1 Month > 1 Week > Today > NOW! (#774)
Embracing the Mess: A Key Feature of Your Hero’s Journey (#775)
Zigs and Zags: Emerson on Your Voyage of a Hundred Tacks (#776)
Stepping Stones to Success: Daniel Amen on Mistakes (#777)
Defeat I Shall Not Know: Stepping Stones - Part II (#778)
An Increasingly Healthy Mind: Sam Harris on the Real (Near) Goal (#779)
The Greatest Predictor of Anxiety: Can You Guess It? (#780)
Health Is a Vehicle: Not a Destination (#781)
Destiny + Destination: Where Are You Headed? (#782)
Ferrari-Optimizing Pit Stops: Who’s in Your Crew? and… Who’s Crew Are YOU On? (#783)
Silent Gifts: Waking up to Them All Day Every Day (#784)
WD-Optimizing40: Squirt a Little on Your Challenges Today? (#785)
Edison on Failures: And a Bunch of Other Stuff (#786)
A Learning Mindset: Is a Wise Mindset (#787)
The 5 Second Rule: 5… 4 … 3 … 2 … 1 … BLASTOFF! (#788)
5… 4… 3… 2… 1…: Now What Needs to Be Done? (#789)
5… 4… 3… 2… 1…: Now What Needs to Be Done? (Part 2) (#790)
Why Your Snooze Button Sucks: … the Life out of Your Day (#791)
How to Throw Away Your Alarm Clock: Super Complicated: Go to Bed Earlier (🤓) (#792)
Best Hours for Your Brain: Science Says… (#793)
Your Diet Dartboard: Throw Your Dart and DO IT! (#794)
Agency, Agency, Agency: And Secret Agent DoubleO-You (#795)
Antifragile Confidence: ← = Agency Squared (#796)
Agency = Doing: Wonder Where Your Power Comes From? ACTION!! (#797)
Building Agency: Step #1: Control Stimuli (Or Else!) (#798)
Building Agency: Step #2: Mirror Mirror in My Brain (and in Yours!) (#799)
Building Agency: Step #3: Move!! (Aka: Energize!!) (#800)
Oh, the Places You'll Go!: Dr. Seuss & Mr. Geisel (#801)
SOUL Goals: Vis-A-Vis SMART Goals (#802)
Castles in the Air: And the Foundations Beneath Them (#803)
Optimus Jet Packs: Strap Yours on Today and GO! (#804)
The Alchemist Says: The Universe Is Conspiring to Help You (#805)
Soul Pit Stops Part 2: And Playing Our Roles Well (#806)
Harmonizing Our Uniqueness: Mr. Rogers on Your “Song to Sing” (#807)
Aurelius on Life’s Great Harmony: And How to Stay in Tune (#808)
The Creative Habit: The Philosophical Tug of War (#809)
Peter Drucker on Creativity: Make That… on Plodding (#810)
Want to Create a TON?: Have a Very (!) Big Waste Paper Basket (#811)
Covey’s Big YES!!: Makes It Easier to Say “No” (#812)
Covey Discipline Quiz!: 1? 2? or 3? (You Might Be Surprised!) (#813)
Reading and Thinking: The Two Go Together (#814)
Archeological Reading: ← Aka How Twyla and I Read a Book (#815)
Rituals of Preparation: A Cab Ride with Twyla Tharp (#816)
Look for the Helpers: And BE a Helper (Today!) (#817)
Want to Change Your Life?: Change Something You Do Daily (#818)
Do It Now: Do It Now. Do It Now. Do It Now. (x50 in AM) (+50 in PM) (#819)
My New Job: Changing Your Front-Right Tire (#820)
The Bridge: Between Goals and Accomplishments (#821)
Undo-It-Yourself Project: Dear Abby Says (via John Maxwell) (#822)
Love 1.5: Right There Between Love 1.0 and Love 2.0 (#823)
Being the Change: YOU Want to See in the World (#824)
An Enraged Mister Rogers: Channeling His Fierce Love (#825)
Aristotle (+ Adam Grant) on Anger: And Channeling It Virtuously (#826)
Do That Which Is Assigned to You: And You Cannot Hope Too Much or Dare Too Much (#827)
A Barrelful of Songs: Is Your Barrel Overflowing with Goodness? (#828)
Do You Think You Can?: Well… If You Have the Guts… (#829)
Swimming with Mister Rogers: Then Stepping on the Scale to See… 143! (#830)
How to Make Time: 4 Steps: Highlight + Laser + Energize + Reflect (#831)
N = 1: Bring the Lab into Your Life (#832)
Distraction: It Can Be a Full-Time Job (Is It Yours?) (#833)
(Quit!) Touching Your Phone: How Many Times Will You Today? (#834)
Got Watch?: Installing a Portable Chronometer on Your Wrist (#835)
Time Craters: Remove the Distraction-Asteroids from Your Life (#836)
Want a Rose?: Respect the Thorn (#837)
I S-E-R-V-E H-E-R-O-S: 155 = My Magic # (Yours?) (#838)
Rejected Lately?: Dr. Seuss, JK Rowling and YOU (#839)
Happy Artists: I Found One!! (#840)
Growing Teeth: “It’s Not Growing!” “Oh… There It Is!” (#841)
The Gita-Avengers: The Battlefield in Our Hearts (#842)
Power x3: Wantpower + Willpower + Waypower (#843)
9 to 12 Months?: No Thanks. I’ll take 3, Please! (#844)
“Do What You Can…: … with What You Have, Where You Are” (#845)
Diagnosis vs. Prognosis: Believe One, Question the Other (#846)
You and Gandhi: Making History (#847)
Statistics Show Trends: They Can’t Predict Your Life (#848)
At Least THAT Didn't Happen: Something to Consider (#849)
Aurelius on Death: And Appreciating the “Uncovenanted Surplus” That Is Life (#850)
Stoic Negative Visualization: A Practice in the Ancient Art of Stoic Joy (#851)
Envy: The Ulcer of the Soul: Socrates Says (And Science Agrees) (#852)
Mudita: The Antidote to Envy: How to Cure Your Soul Ulcer (#853)
False Comparison: One More Antidote to Soul Ulcer (aka Envy) (#854)
The Comparison Game: You Will Always Lose It (Here’s Why) (#855)
Practicing with Kobe (At 4am): Wonder What We’ll Work On… (#856)
Practice: When Can I Stop?: Great Ones Say… (#857)
You: Athlete + Scientist + Director: The Personas of Habits + Mastery (#858)
The Invisible Gorilla: And the Spotlight of Your Attention (#859)
You and Your Gordion Knots: Conquering Our Super-Tricky Challenges (#860)
Got Firm Determination?: Resolving to Untie the Knots in Our Lives (#861)
You, Seneca and Alexander the Great: On Philosophy (#862)
A Disposition to Good: Pleasant + Honorable = the Same = Blissipline (#863)
Fortify Your Pertinacity: Seneca Says: “Until the Will to Good Becomes a Disposition to Good” (#864)
Pilot + Co-Pilot + Autopilot: The Art and Science of Installing Good Habit-Algorithms (#865)
Got Good Ideas?: Capture Them! (#866)
Counting Pearls vs. Stringing Pearls: Yoda Says: One’s Better Than the Other (#867)
On a Roll?: Keep Creatively Shooting! (#868)
I Like You: Just the Way You Are (#869)
How to Stop Worrying: And Start Living (Hint: Spit on Your Hands and Get Busy!) (#870)
Your Money: Or Your Life (Which Will It Be?) (#871)
Building a BonFIRE: Financial Independence, Realizing Eudaimonia (#872)
Financial FREEDOM: “The Condition of Not Being Imprisoned or in Captivity” (#873)
The Four FIs: Intelligence + Integrity + Independence + Interdependence (#874)
FIRE: The Big 3: No Debt + Save at Least 50% + Invest in Index Funds (#875)
How (Not!) to Kill Your Feet: Left Foot. Left Foot. Left Foot. Right! (#876)
Empty Feet: Ink Blobs and Emptiness on the Trail (#877)
Empty Feet (Part 2): One More Time: It’s ALL Empty! (Fill It Up Wisely) (#878)
Lint on a Projector’s Lens: Got Any on Yours? (#879)
Jesus on Motes and Beams: Ignore One, Focus on the Other (#880)
Prescribing Medicine for Your Neighbor: ← Is Crazy. YOU Need It! (#881)
How to Win Friends and Influence People: Rule #1 (STOP Criticizing!) (#882)
Not Kicking Over Beehives: Part 2 (Featuring Lincoln + Franklin + You) (#883)
The Fundies: Eat + Move + Sleep + Breathe + Be Present + Prosper (#884)
Equanimity Anchors: The #1s x 3 (#885)
You, the Lightbulb: Turning Up Our Wattage (#886)
Lightbulbs in the Temple of God: Less Graffiti, More Shining (#887)
The Pearl in My Pocket: Irritant → Awesome (#888)
Are You Intexticated?: A Friendly Optimizing PSA (#889)
Profound Service: Getting to the Bottom of Our Life’s Work (#890)
The Daily Stoic Kid: What Coin Will YOU Pick Today? (#891)
Stoic Shipwrecks: And Kids at the Park Biting You (#892)
How to Melt Obstacles: Hint: Boldly Step Through Freedom Doors (#893)
All Roads Lead to Eudaimon: Antifragile Optionality - Part II (#894)
Got Glymph?: How to Wash Your Brain (#895)
Glymph for the Win: Crazy Stats from My Oura Ring (#896)
My Readiness Scores (Yours?): A+, Please (#897)
Antifragile Fuel: Aurelius on How to Make Flame and Brightness (#898)
How Is This Making Me Stronger?: Well, How Is It? Add Fuel to the Fire! (#899)
Swallowing Demons: And Getting Their Power (#900)
Whatever Your Fate Is: Say, “This Is What I Need!” (#901)
Tolle Says: Whatever Happens: Accept It and Act Like You Chose It (#902)
Got Serotonin?: Hide and Seek: Brain vs. Gut (#903)
Got Immunity?: Hide and Seek Part Deux (#904)
The Origin of Disease: Hippocrates Says: Check the Gut! (#905)
Hanging out with Confucius: Learning from the Good and the Bad (#906)
“How Am I THAT?”: Well, How Are You? (#907)
Hedonic Eudaimonia: A Close Relative of Flow Junkies (#908)
Creative Hiccups: How to Cure Them (#909)
Sweeping Our Own Porches: (And: Happy 150th Birthday, Gandhi!) (#910)
Foundation vs. Pillars: Our #1 Fundie? Sleep! (#911)
Why We DON’T Sleep: The Top 10 Sleep Kryptonites (#912)
Sleep Efficiency: Want 8 Hours? Be in Bed for 9! (#913)
Reasons to GET UP: vs. Reasons to STAY Up (#914)
A Brief History of (Blue) Light: Save It for the Daytime (#915)
Training Tranquility: Today for TONIGHT for Tomorrow (#916)
Sleep Curfews: Caffeine + Exercise + Eating + Screens + Work (#917)
Don’t Feed the Demon: A Lesson from Olloch the Glutton (#918)
Demons vs. Daimons: What to Feed Them (#919)
Borrowed Energy: Where’s the Energy-Mint App to Track It?! (#920)
Cool- (+Kid-)ifying Investing: Rather than Spending Every Dollar We Have (#921)
Compounding Cash (for Kids): The Magic of Money Multiplying (#922)
Prosper = “to Go Forward Hopefully”: Not so Much a CONDITION OF Life as It Is an ATTITUDE TOWARD Life (#923)
Prosper + Prospectus: The Two Go (Forward Hopefully!) Together (#924)
C.A.N.O.E-ing: On the Optimizing River of Flexibility (#925)
Gains: Micro + Jumbo: Aggregate/Compound + Combo Locks (#926)
Aristotle’s Yoga: Which Way Do YOU Need to Bend? (#927)
Got Hormesis?: And The Inverted U - Part Deux (#928)
Etiology vs. Teleology: Freud vs. Adler (and Campbell and Me and…) (#929)
Micro Prospectus: Moving Forward with Hope Carpe Diem Style (#930)
Got Watch? Part 2: Decades of Work to Tell Time (#931)
Rome Wasn’t Built In a Day: Neither Was Any Other Great Thing (#932)
Illnesses: Acute vs. Chronic: Strategies: Checkers vs. Chess (#933)
A World Without Heroes: Let’s Choose This Day to Be One (#934)
The Eternal Feast: Exoneration and Rejecting the Invitation (#935)
Why Be Petulant…: When We Can Be Pearl Makers? (#936)
Grateful Pearl Makers: What Luck! More Irritants = More Pearls (#937)
Calm Determination: And One-Pointedness (#938)
Life’s Washing Machines: Helping Us Get Rid of the Grimy Stuff (#939)
Stress Curfews: When's Yours? (#940)
The 5 D’s of Meditation: Do It with Dignity, a Defined Anchor and Strong Determination Then Do It Again (#941)
Moment to Moment to Moment: to Moment to Moment to Moment… (#942)
Past → Present → Future: The Power of NOW! (#943)
Mental Concrete: Let’s Not Get Stuck In It (#944)
Thank You. Thank You. Thank You.: Thank You. Thank You. Thank You. Thank You. Thank You. (#945)
Thought Alchemy: How to Change One Thought for Another (#946)
Despair vs. Prosper: Etymological (and Psychological) Opposites (#947)
Despair --> Hope: The Best Bridge? (#948)
Nietzsche on Shedding One’s Skin: Me, You and Mr. Little Lizard (#949)
Natural Born Heroes: Plutarch (via Christopher McDougall) on True Heroism (#950)
Deepak on Superheroes: The Buddha, Bodhisattvas and You (#951)
Be Fit to Be Useful: Says the Founder of Natural Movement (#952)
Doing Everything Possible: To Create Vibrant Health to Give Back (aka: Be Fit to Be Useful) (#953)
Grow! Grow! Grow!: Our Inner Evolutionary Imperatives Exhorting Us to Optimize (#954)
Falling on Your Butt: Approximately 20,000 Times (#955)
Your Learning Zone: vs. Your Comfort and Panic Zones (#956)
When the Facts Change: What Do You Do? (#957)
How to Prosper: Some “Pro” Tips (Via a Visit with my Dictionary) (#958)
Science Says: Words Matter: A Lot More Than You May Think (#959)
Capturing a Richer Mindset: Via the Power of Placebo-Words (#960)
Placebo vs. Nocebo: “I Shall Be Pleasing” vs. “I Shall Cause Harm” (#961)
How to Fix Your Knees: Aka: An Astonishing Study on the Power of Placebos (#962)
Words Matter - Part II: With What Words Are YOU Priming Yourself? (#963)
You, Batman & Dora the Explorer: Time to Put on Your Heroic Costume? (#964)
Asking for Qualities: A Quick Way to Flip the Switch (#965)
Problems vs. Conblems: Throw Challenges FORWARD Not Backward (or Under the Rug!) (#966)
Consistency vs. Prosistency: Standing Together Is a (Very!) Good Thing (#967)
Antifragile Propellant: Flip the Switch for Fast and Furious Goodness (#968)
Optimal Capitalism: The Economist on: What Are Businesses For? (#969)
Business as a Force for Good: A Quick Look at Public Benefit Corporations (#970)
Investment Strategies: To Optimize Global Culture (#971)
Bless Your Bills: Louise Hay Says: Stamp Your Checks with a Kiss (#972)
Practice Balls: Make that: PRACTICE Balls (#973)
Animal Nutrition: You at the Zoo (#974)
The Tenth of an Inch: Of Difference Between Heaven and Hell (#975)
Finish Strong: Got a Finish Line in Sight? Hit It! (#976)
Start Strong!: Got Any Starting Lines in Your Life? (#977)
The Race I Almost Didn’t Do: You Got Any? (#978)
What’s Your Excuse?: RISE UP! with Spartan Hero Kacey McCallister (#979)
The Master Fails More Times: Than the Beginner Even Tries (#980)
The Last Barrier: And the Friends Who Help Us Break Them (#981)
Friend Power: Will Power? Soul Power? Awesome But… (#982)
Love Power: The Heartbeat of All Power (#983)
Springsteen Says: “I’m Excited!”: Epic Wisdom from The Boss (#984)
Operating at the Highest Level: Nature Says: Here’s Some Energy-Juice! (#985)
Can’t vs. Won’t: Two Four-Letter Words (#986)
Fear Alchemized to FEAR: How to Deal with the Grandmaster of Mediocrity (#987)
Fail Alchemized to FAIL: Fail = Faithful Attempts In Learning! (#988)
The Peanut Gallery: vs. Fellow Heroes in the Arena (#989)
The Passion Paradox: Obsessive vs. Harmonious (#990)
The Peak Performance Equation: Stress + Rest = Growth (#991)
How to Avoid Being Miserable: William James on Habits (#992)
Spiritual Windshield Wipers: Eudaimonia, Journaling, and the Science of Writing Down Our Goals (#993)
My Two Favorite Joes: Joseph Campbell and Joe De Sena (#994)
10 Spartan Core Virtues: Self-Awareness + Commitment + Passion + Discipline + Prioritization + Grit + Courage + Optimism + Integrity + Wholeness (#995)
Carpe Destiny: Let’s Seize Our Destinies TOGETHER… TODAY! (#996)
Eudaimonology: The Study of a Good Soul (#997)
Going thru the Motions : vs. Going for Mastery (#998)
The Decade of the Hero: As in: YOU (and All of Us!), the Modern Hero (#999)
The Optimize +1 Hall of Fame: Thank You, Thank You, Thank You (#1000)
Start Again (and Again...): And Again... And Again... And... (#1001)
The Stoic Paradox: The Stockdale Paradox - Part 2 (#1002)
Traction vs. Distraction: Which Way Are You Being Pulled? (#1003)
The Cardinal Virtues: Of Stoicism + Science + Optimize (#1004)
Thoughts + Heartbeats: Meditating? Thoughts Are NOT Your Enemy! (#1005)
Brushing Our Brains: Here’s Your Brainbrush (#1006)
PM Counts Twice: PM → AM + DAY + PM = #carpediem (#1007)
SEALs and WIRMs: Witness + Interdict + Redirect + Maintain (#1008)
The Psychology of Possibility: Celebrating with 300 Burpees (#1009)
Virtue Management: vs. Time Management vs. Energy Management (#1010)
Soul Force Forge: How’s Yours? Join Ours! (#1011)
Your Limitations: Idea: Stop Arguing for Them (#1012)
The Puzzle of Life: And How to Build It (#1013)
The Optimize Coach Diploma: Want One? Come and Get It! (#1014)
It’s Day 1: But Only Always (#1015)
Stoic Love Advice: Musonius Says: Compete in Giving Care (#1016)
Theory vs. Practice: Musonius Says: One Is More Important Than the Other (#1017)
True Philosophy: Is the Practice of Noble Behavior (#1018)
Pythagoras’s PM Review: Via His Golden Verses (#1019)
Learning Cycles: And How to Optimize Them (#1020)
Brain Wash: Time to Give Yourself One? (#1021)
Take T.I.M.E.!: Time (Restricted) + Intentional + Mindful + Enriching (#1022)
Your Visceral Fat: How’s It? (Know: It’s the #1 Predictor of Ick) (#1023)
WHtR ← Waist to Height Ratio: How’s Yours? (<.5 Here We Come!) (#1024)
Exercise: It’s a Well-Being Tool: Not a Weight-Loss Tool (#1025)
Connection over Perfection: A Big Idea from Public Speaking 101 (#1026)
Mindful Presentations: Ellen Langer on How to Give Them (#1027)
Serving vs. Pleasing: Goeswith Hatred and Misunderstanding (#1028)
The Pen Is Mightier: Than the Keyboard (Science Says re: Taking Notes) (#1029)
Want to Make It Stick?: Explain Like I’m 5 (#1030)
Death's Interest Rate: Schopenhauer Says: It’s Paid by Sleep (#1031)
The Big 2 Virtues: Can You Guess What They Are? (#1032)
Building an Epic Bridge: I Hereby Challenge You to Have a Series of Really Bad Days (#1033)
Moral Authority: The Highest Form of Leadership Influence (#1034)
Yesterday’s Home Run: Won’t Win Today’s Game (#1035)
The Choice of Hercules: Vice Dressed up as Virtue (#1036)
Getting out of Bed and High-Fiving Hercules: Aka: Moving from Theory to Practice (#1037)
Welcome to Freedom: The Bus Driven by Arete (#1038)
Frankl on Freedom: See That Gap Between Stimulus and Response? (#1039)
Don’t Aim at Success: Dedicate Yourself to a Cause Bigger Than Yourself (#1040)
Your Specific Mission in Life: You Have One… What Is It? (#1041)
Team Work: Makes the Dream Work (#1042)
The Speed Limit Game: Driving Toward Mastery (#1043)
The Riddles of Life: Giraffes, Skunks, Pearls and… Heroes (#1044)
What’s 1 + 1?: Well… Whaddya Say? (#1045)
What’s +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 …: +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 …? (#1046)
Zeno’s Paradox: Time to Reverse It (#1047)
“I Found Something!”: The "I Love You” Game (#1048)
The Optimus You Empire: How to Create a Flourishing Civilization (#1049)
Galileo on Optimizing: Measure What Is Measurable (#1050)
The Greatest Invention Ever: Can You Guess What It Is? (#1051)
Warriors’ Ascent: Serving Those Who Serve (#1052)
Hope & Zest - Part 2: The Science of Spartans (#1053)
On Humility: Thinking of Ourselves Less (#1054)
When 1 + 1 = 4: Let’s Pull Together! (#1055)
How-to-Change-the-World Math: +1 +1 +1 x 1 + 1 + 1 = !!! (#1056)
Exploding Fist Bumps of Love: 🤜💥🤛 → 🤟💥🤟 (#1057)
Have a Firm Grip on Reality?: You and Zeno’s Clenched Fist (#1058)
Your Most Profitable Journey: Stoic Antifragile Origin Stories (#1059)
Facing a Challenge?: What Virtue Can You Practice?! (#1060)
The God of Medicine: Prescribing Hardships to Cultivate Our Virtue (#1061)
This Rep’s for YOU!: Remembering Why We’re Training in the Character Gym (#1062)
The Big 2 (x2): 1. Develop + 2. Serve (+ 3. Repeat + 4. Forever) (#1063)
How to Sidestep Depression: Did You Know There’s a Magic # of Steps? (#1064)
A Quick Ticket to Ick: Go from Active to Sedentary and… VOILA! (#1065)
The Mountain-Races of Life: And How to Win Them (#1066)
The Ultimate Gift: Existence Itself (#1067)
Science Says: Gratitude Works: Some EYE-POPPING Stats (#1068)
How to Cultivate Gratitude: Science Says: #1 Practice = … (#1069)
Taking Things FOR GRANTED vs. AS GRANTED: Let’s Choose Wisely (#1070)
The #1 Obstacle to Gratitude: And Its Remedy (#1071)
Memento Privilege: The Science of Memento Mori (#1072)
Memento (Time) Flies: 28 Days Later (#1073)
OMMS Journaling: Science of: Gratitude, Suffering, and Redemption (#1074)
What Went Well? (And Why?!): Proven Way to Pump up the ‘Ol Gratitude Muscles (#1075)
Gratitude Letters: Write One Lately? (Science Says…) (#1076)
How We Endure: Olympic Moments: When Last Place = Historic Place (#1077)
Success Doesn’t Matter in This World: Commitment Does (#1078)
Real Enthusiasm: Passing Through the Worst and Realizing It’s the Best (#1079)
How You React: Small Things vs. Dramatic Things (#1080)
How We All Spell Love: T.I.M.E. (#1081)
#1 Tip for Life Puzzles: Just Find the Next Piece (#1082)
Altruism Back in the Day: Was Just How People Lived (#1083)
Efficient vs. Effective: One’s Good for Time the Other’s Good for People (#1084)
Relationship Bid Math: How's Yours? (#1085)
Bid Math Part 2: Addition by Subtraction (#1086)
Kid Bid Algorithms: Our Ticket to Mom or Dad of the Year Ceremonies (#1087)
Flashlight vs. Hammer: How Are You Using Life's Data? (#1088)
Curiosity: Actualized the Optimizer (#1089)
We’re Only the Light Bulbs: Our Job Is to Remain Screwed In! (#1090)
My New Energy Identity: A Screwed-In Light Bulb (#1091)
The Paradox of the Ego: Ironically: We Need a Strong Ego to Let Go of Our Ego (#1092)
Life’s Great Question: Can You Guess What It Is? (#1093)
Purpose 2.0: Time for a Purpose Upgrade? (#1094)
How to Meaningify Your Work: In One Simple Step… (#1095)
How to Fall Upward: Embrace “Necessary Suffering” (#1096)
Legitimate Suffering: Let’s Allow It and Stop Multiplying It (#1097)
How to Be a Perfect Person: Hint: Embrace the Imperfections (#1098)
Perfection: Hold It in Contempt: It’s the LOWEST Possible Standard (#1099)
Confronting Fear: It’s the Destiny of a Jedi-Optimizer (#1100)
How to Make Easy Hard: Hint: Have No Idea Where You’re Headed (#1101)
Blueprinting: How’s Yours Going? (#1102)
Staring Down the Wolf: Which One Are YOU Feeding? (#1103)
The Two Wolves: Let’s Name Them (To Tame Them) (#1104)
Helplessness vs. Optimism: Wolves, Dogs, and Us (#1105)
Fall Down Seven Times: Get Up Eight (OMMS!) (#1106)
Semper Gumby: Always Flexible, Optimus! (#1107)
The 1, 2, 3 of Antifragility: How to Operationalize OMMS (#1108)
Hunting with Carlos Castaneda: And Some Bird Watching, Too (#1109)
What Great Performance Looks Like: Look! Up, Up in the Sky! (#1110)
Crossing Bright Lines: And Getting Back on Track (#1111)
How to Make Yourself Miserable: And How Not to Waste Brain Cells (#1112)
A Warrior’s Commitment: To Optimizing (#1113)
The Toltec Warrior: Winning the (Inner!) Battle of Life (#1114)
The Path with Heart: Trust Thyself, Every Heart Vibrates to That Iron String (#1115)
How to Make an OMMS Sandwich: Start with the Meaty-Obstacle + Add Goodness (#1116)
The Language of Gratitude: Gifts, Blessings and Humility (#1117)
How to Carpe Diem Journal (v2): Let’s Seize the Day → TODAY! (#1118)
Soul Mates 2.0: How to Find One and How to Be One (#1119)
Love in Action: Leo Buscaglia and the Johnson Love Story (#1120)
Let’s Not Underestimate the Power of…: A Smile, a Kind Word, a Listening Ear… (#1121)
You’re Not a Big Deal: And That’s a VERY Liberatingly Big Deal (#1122)
Gotta Do It?: Might as Well LOVE It! (#1123)
May I Speak With Your Supervisor?: I Want to Tell Them How Awesome You Are! (#1124)
Practicing Gratitude: Right Before That Chat With the Supervisor (#1125)
The Good Life: vs. The Good Mood (#1126)
How to Get Perspective: And Meet Life’s Biggest Challenges (#1127)
The Optimize Compass: And How to Make One (#1128)
Your Secret Weapon: Thank You, Epictetus and Hermes (#1129)
Alchemizing Adversity: Into Exceptional Opportunities for Growth (#1130)
Your Philosopher’s Wand: Goes Well with Your Philosopher’s Stone (#1131)
The Courage Quotient: How’s Yours? (#1132)
Courage Tools: Here Are My Favorites—Yours? (#1133)
How to Act Boldly: Choose Courageous Roles (#1134)
Be Willing to Fail: Edison, Churchill and YOU! (#1135)
Creating Your Life Documentary: Note: It’s All an Important Part of the Process (#1136)
A New Take on Mis-takes: Using Them as Fuel for Our Antifragile Fires (#1137)
Playing to Win: vs. Playing Not to Lose (#1138)
In Case of Extreme Challenges: Break Glass! (#1139)
How to Say “I Love You”: In Squeezy-eze (#1140)
To Say “I Love You”: One Must Know First How to Say the “I” (#1141)
Memento Aristotle’s River Creatures: Getting Perspective on Life and Death (#1142)
Virtuegong: Qigong + Virtue for the Win! (#1143)
Balloon Breathing: For Kids (and Their Parents) (#1144)
Hero Breathing: For Kids (and Their Parents) (#1145)
Cosmic Math: 28 Days vs. 28,000 Days vs. 6,825,500,000,000 Days (#1146)
The Three Quests + U: Universal + Unique + Ultimate (#1147)
The Patron Letter of Heroes: <- The Letter U (#1148)
Permission Slips: Time to Write Yourself One? (#1149)
Cover It All in Leather: Or… Just Wrap Leather Around Your Feet (#1150)
The S → R Game: Old Stimulus → New Response (#1151)
Disaster =: Virtue’s Opportunity (#1152)
Before All Else: Try to Be Consistent (#1153)
Operationalizing Antifragile Confidence: If… Then… Repeat. BOOM! (#1154)
Make Progress: By Making Every Effort to PRACTICE OUR PHILOSOPHY (#1155)
Planting Trees with Kennedy: It’ll Take 100 Years? So... Start TODAY! (#1156)
Moonshots with Kennedy: What Goal Is Organizing and Measuring YOUR Energy and Skills? (#1157)
You Can Achieve Greatness: Here’s a Two-Step Process (#1158)
Tim Ferriss on Unusually Large Goals: And the Collective Insecurity of the World (#1159)
High-Hanging Fruit: Your Fuel for 10x Thinking (#1160)
Want to Live Long?: Nuns + Crazy Stats (#1161)
Optimism’s Longevity Power: → NOT Smoking Two Packs a Day (#1162)
“The Most Robust Strategy”: To Cultivate Optimism Is… (#1163)
"The Tyranny of Positive Thinking”: And How to Avoid It (#1164)
Eudaimonic Treadmills: Note: There Aren’t Any (#1165)
Eudaimonism vs. Hedonism: Don’t Want to Be Depressed? Science Says… (#1166)
What Doesn’t Kill Us: The New Psychology of Posttraumatic Growth (#1167)
The Shattered Vase: Tape + Glue vs. Mosaic (#1168)
The Art of Precious Scars: Kintsugi & You (#1169)
The Snow Globe: In Your Brain (Quit Shaking It!) (#1170)
“Shut-Down COMPLETE!”: Not “Shut-Down ALMOST Complete!” (#1171)
Roman Masterpiece Days: AMs and PMs Featuring 45- to 75-min Hours (#1172)
Cortisol and Melatonin: Teeter Totter Buddies (#1173)
Shaping Our Brains: Millisecond by Millisecond (#1174)
Sugar & Depression: Some Crazy (And Crazy-Making!) Stats (#1175)
Taking Out the Carbage: How to go from MAD to Flourishing (#1176)
Cancer Candy (Aka Sugar): And All It’s Secret Identities (#1177)
Sugar Math: It Adds Up. Fast! (#1178)
High Quality Work Produced =: Time Spent x Quality of Energy x Intensity of Focus (#1179)
Astonishing Productivity: Some Math on How to Create It (#1180)
Jesus, Tolle, You and Your House on the Rock: The Parable of the Wise and the Foolish Builders (#1181)
Changing Times: Call for Unchanging Principles (#1182)
Learned Limitlessness: Baby Elephants and You (#1183)
LIEs + BS: Limited Ideas Entertained That Wreak Havoc on Our Belief Systems (#1184)
Clark Kent’s Changing Room: The Flow Telephone Booth (#1185)
Astonishing Connection: And How to Create It (#1186)
Superman’s Kryptonite Bath: How to Destroy Your Power Tonight (#1187)
Superhero, Meet Your Supervillain: The 5 Digital D’s: Deluge + Distraction + Dementia + Deduction + Depression (#1188)
Limitless Steps: How to Moonwalk Around the Earth 2 Dozen Times (#1189)
The INFINITE Power of CONSISTENCY: (Energy x Focus x What’s Important Now)Consistency (#1190)
Genius Work vs. Mediocre Work: High Fiving Your Inner Genius (#1191)
The Oak Sleeps in the Acorn: Sprouting Genius Work (#1192)
Building Chainsaws: vs. Sharpening Saws (#1193)
How to Learn FASTER: Forget + Act + State + Teach + Enter + Review (#1194)
Tree-Climbing Fish: Einstein Says: Everybody Is a Genius But… (#1195)
Strong People: ALWAYS Have Strong Weaknesses, Too (#1196)
Comcourage: A New Word for Our Optimizing Dictionary (#1197)
B = MAP: The Behavior Design Equation (#1198)
How to Delete a Behavior: Remove the Prompt and Make It Hard! (#1199)
You = Sugar Cookie: Life's Not Fair--Drive On! (#1200)
Rocky on How Winning Is Done: Wisdom on Eating Sugar Cookies (#1201)
Rise to the Occasion: Be Your Very Best in the Darkest Moments (#1202)
Make Your Bed: And Maybe Change the World (#1203)
When You’re Neck Deep in Mud: Sing! (#1204)
The ABCs of Tiny Habits: Anchor + Behavior + Celebration (#1205)
Celebration: As Powerful as Mindfulness and Gratitude? (#1206)
How to Celebrate: Hint: IMMEDIATELY + INTENSELY (#1207)
The Neuroscience of Seneca: Pleasant + Honorable = The Same (#1208)
Shine: The Result of Skillfully Celebrating our Successes (#1209)
Pearl Habits: How to Create Something Valuable from an Irritant (#1210)
The Fastest Way to Delete a Bad Habit: Hint: Remove the Prompt (#1211)
Prompt Begone!: No Behavior Happens Without a Prompt (#1212)
The Weed: A Case Study in Habit Creation (#1213)
Character Flaws vs. Design Flaws: Note: There’s a BIG Difference (#1214)
The (Neuro) Trail: Carving New Behavioral Pathways (#1215)
Pearl Bites: Alchemizing the Inevitable Chigger-Triggers (#1216)
Bliss, Pain & Unicorns on Everest: Pearl Bites Part II (#1217)
One Evolution at a Time: How to Get Through Hell Week (#1218)
SEALs and Hoosiers: Get Your Tape Measure Out and Let’s Go! (#1219)
Peak Performance You: Flip the Switch—TODAY! (#1220)
Mission Algorithms: Binary Pre-Commitments (#1221)
Goldilocks Goals: Setting Targets That Are Juuuuuust Right (#1222)
The Mystery of the Oscars: Plus: Cookie Jars and Highlight Reels (#1223)
The Upward Spiral: And How to Get on It (#1224)
Make Decisions: But Only If You Want to Feel Better (#1225)
The Power of Others: Rely on It! (#1226)
The Greatest Predictor of Longevity: Genetics? Diet? Exercise? Nope… Try: Lung Capacity! (#1227)
The Perfect Breath: 5.5 + 5.5 + 5.5 (#1228)
Oral Posture ← How's Yours?: High Fiving the Magic Spot in Our Mouths (#1229)
The Magic Spot in Our Mouths: High Five It and Shine! (#1230)
Breathe Less: To Breathe Right (#1231)
How to +3 It: When -1 → +1 = +3 (#1232)
How to Delete a Bad Habit (Again!): One Way: Make It Harder (#1233)
A Wandering Mind: Is an Unhappy Mind (#1234)
Meet My New Favorite Bird: Can You Guess What It Is? (#1235)
Opening Hero Doors: Cardinals, Campbell, Rohr and You (#1236)
Your (Heroic) Destiny: How’s It Going? (#1237)
Q: Do You Pray?: A: Every Second of My Life (#1238)
E: “What Does ‘Sin’ Mean?”: Me: “To Miss the Mark.” (#1239)
What’s Worse Than “Sinning”?: Not Having a Target in the First Place (#1240)
Breathing Together: Inspiring → Conspiring to Optimize (#1241)
Breathing Together (Part II): Inspiring → Conspiring to Optimize (#1242)
Eudaimantra: How to Extend Sovereignty Over the Mind (#1243)
Your Food Label: Is It Lying to You? (#1244)
Junk Food’s Junk Science: Did You Know…? (#1245)
Independent (Non-Junk) Science Says: The Energy-Balance Theory Is Dead (#1246)
Don’t Drink Sugar: “The Single-Biggest Thing You Can Do to Improve Your Health” (#1247)
The Soul Force of Consistency: 300 Zeroes for the W.I.N. (#1248)
What’s Your 0?: Let’s Turn It Into a φ (#1249)
The 100,000 Game: Join Me? (#1250)
The Heart Rate Game: The Ultimate Family Fun (#1251)
Exhale Through Your Nose: Increase Pressure → Increase Oxygenation (#1252)
How to Create Time: And Put It to Work for Us (#1253)
Einstein’s Baggy Trousers: And His Creative Genius (#1254)
The Jonah Complex: Quit Running from Your Destiny (#1255)
Conscious Competence: Is Where It’s At (#1256)
“That Works!”: Let’s Do It Again (And Again) (And Again) (#1257)
The Cleanup Game: How to Drop Into Flow (-> Bored to Awesome) (#1258)
Neutral Thinking: vs. Positive and Negative Thinking (#1259)
Your Stinkin’ Thinkin’: Chickens, Poop, and Neutral Thinking (#1260)
The Flat Tire: And the Ultimate Question: What Do You Want? (#1261)
Goats and G.O.A.T.s: Game-Winning Touchdowns and Home Runs Gowith Game-Losing Interceptions and Strike Outs (#1262)
The Illusion of Choice: Want Greatness? There Is No Choice (#1263)
Learn to Love Constraints: And Get Your Freak On (#1264)
Want to Be the Best?: Godin Says: You Really Can’t Try to Do Everything (#1265)
“Wow! That Must’ve Worked!”: What’s Working for YOU?! (#1266)
Targeted Thinking: What Do You Want + Now What Needs to Be Done? (#1267)
Stop Saying Stupid Stuff: It’s Not Helping the Cause (#1268)
Food Prescriptions: Are More Effective Than Prescriptions for Medicine (#1269)
Spray Painting Leaves: Wise Gardening for Mind Body and Soul (#1270)
Food As Medicine: Science Says: “Wow! It Works!” (#1271)
How to Solve the Health Care Crisis: Starting With Our Next Meal (#1272)
The Catalytic Force Multiplier: To Changing the World (#1273)
Shall We Pray Together?: The Optimize Virtue Prayer (#1274)
Am I Working or Playing Right Now?: The Master in the Art of Living (#1275)
The Gorillas in Our Midst: See Them Once, See Them Everywhere (#1276)
Draw Your Line in the Dirt: And Get to It. Repeat. Forever. (#1277)
Maslow on Glumness and Grimness: When It’s Actually a Good Sign (#1278)
How to High Five God: And Plug Into Divine Power Today (#1279)
How to Be a Success: Wisdom from Two World-Class Coaches Named Phil (#1280)
Be So Energized and So Awesome: That They Feel You and Adore You (#1281)
Be So Good They Can’t Ignore You: Origin Stories Featuring Cal Newport + Steve Martin (#1282)
The Inventor of the Telephone: Refused to Have a Telephone in His Study (#1283)
Jimmy Kimmel: “Take That, Mr. Mills!”: When “Weakness” Becomes Strength (#1284)
The Optimize Food Rules: The Big 3 (+1!) (#1285)
“The Purgatory of the Idiot”: vs. The School of Genius (#1286)
Numbing Our Souls: Let’s WAKE UP and Stop Doing That (Today!) (#1287)
Spiritual Windshield Wipers (Part II): They Do a Soul Good (#1288)
10,319 Days: It’s +1 Day 1 Again. And Always! (#1289)
My All-Time Favorite Hero (Yours?): Here’s Their (and YOUR!) Superpower (#1290)
Soul Force: An Origin Story: Gandhi’s Great Soul (+ Yours!) (#1291)
A (Single-Word) Mantra for Your Meditation: Here It Is… (#1292)
Heroic Meditation: Breath + Heroes + Virtues + Stillness + Quest (#1293)
Go 0 for 12 Lately?: Who Cares? Work Your Protocol, Hero! (#1294)
Dorfman and Stutz: On Action, Action, and More Action (#1295)
Action: Yet Again: Gandhi, the Gita, Bagger Vance, and YOU (#1296)
The Game of Life: And… How to Make Yours Heroic (#1297)
Happy the Rooster: Alchemizing Bread Crumbs, Dishes and Legos (#1298)
The Toilet Paper Roll: “Why Is It on the Ground Again?!” (#1299)
The Most Powerful Practice: To Get What You REALLY Want (#1300)
Target Practice in 3 (+0 +1) Steps: An Update on Our Targeted Thinking Protocol (#1301)
Big Wave Riding: With Yoda and Laird (#1302)
THIS Is What We’ve Trained For: Stay in the Ring and Let’s Go! (#1303)
Punched in the Face Lately?: What to Do the Next Time That Happens (#1304)
A + S + GOYA = R: Break Arrows with Your Neck Lately? (#1305)
One Percent Better: Close the Gap TODAY (#1306)
The +1% Math: Want to Get 998,822,690,009,590 Times Better? (#1307)
Why Be Average?: The Best of the Worst and Worst of the Best (#1308)
Raise the Basement: You Don’t Rise to the Occasion, You Sink to… (#1309)
Stay Plugged In: And Notice When You’re Not (#1310)
Two Kids on a Trail: Stoic Negative Visualization Part Deux (#1311)
My All-Time Favorite Temperature: What’s Yours? (#1312)
Low-Hanging Fruit: Opportunities to Practice (#1313)
Singer’s Stoicism: “True Surrender” = “The Art of Acquiescence” (#1314)
Goals: Telescopes + Microscopes: And Heroic Apps to Dominate the Day and Decade (#1315)
How to Flip the Switch and GO!: Red Lights? GREEN LIGHTS! (#1316)
The Hero Code: McRaven’s Ten Core Virtues (#1317)
Feeling Fear?: Take JUST ONE STEP Forward Today (#1318)
Courage Is Calling: Answer the Call, Hero! (#1319)
On Perseverance: Did You Know That George Washington… (#1320)
101 x 1M → 51 | 2051: In Permanent Ink Somewhere I’ll Never Miss It (#1321)
My Top 3 Energy Targets: It’s Hard to Have a Bad Day When I Hit These (Yours?) (#1322)
A 2:43 Heroic Meditation: We Love You… Let’s GO! (#1323)
Your Obsession?: Past? Future? Present? = Depression, Anxiety, Optimal Performance (#1324)
The Secret to Being Miserable: And Its Antidote (Found in Spit!) (#1325)
Day-Tight Compartments: The Place to Live to Dominate the Day (#1326)
How I Read a Book: And I Pick Books I Read (#1327)
Self-Concordant Goals: Do a Gritty, Flourishing Hero Good! (#1328)
How I ACTUALLY Read a Book: I Read Archeologically (Like Twyla Tharp) (#1329)
Level 5 Leadership: Personal Humility + Indomitable Will (#1330)
The Three Disciplines: Of Self-Mastery: Reactive + Structural + Expansive (#1331)
Are You Getting Better or Bitter?: Which Will It Be, Hero? (#1332)
Mom Says: “Be Virtuous”: Abigail Adams and Heroic Mothers Unite (#1333)
You Are a Weirdo: At Least I Hope You Are, Hero! (#1334)
Tolerant with Others: Strict with Yourself (#1335)
Tolerant with Others (Part II): The Most Frequently Asked Question in Heroic Coach (#1336)
Afraid of Ghosts?: Here’s What to Do… (#1337)
From Icky to Awesome: Wisdom From Another Indian Sage and His Grandmother (#1338)
Starve the Ghosts: Feed the Good Guys (#1339)
The Law of Karma: How to Apply the Law of Cause and Effect (#1340)
Want Grapes or Figs?: Thorn Bushes and Thistles Won’t Do the Trick (#1341)
Growing Heroic Fruit: Horticultural vs. Clock Time Revisited (#1342)
Immediate Gratification: From Doing the Right Thing for the Win! (#1343)
Me, You and The Sun: 93 Million Miles + 8 Minutes 20 Seconds (#1344)
Traveling at the Speed of Light: For 4.2 Years Just to Get to the Next Star (#1345)
A Brief History of the Universe: 13.8 Billion Years Ago to NOW (#1346)
My Top 3 Work Targets: What Are YOURS? (#1347)
The Sacred Vow: Here’s Mine… What’s YOURS? (#1348)
Vow > Kinda Sorta Committed: The Foundation for Greatness (#1349)
My #1 WIN (Yours?): If All You Did Today Was This… (#1350)
The Office Is Closed: “Shutdown Complete!” for the Target Swipe Win (#1351)
Napitate Lately?: Nap + Meditation Does a Hero Good! (#1352)
A Cold Shower a Day: Keeps the Doctor Away (#1353)
"Consistency Is a Superpower": How to Activate Your Soul Force (#1354)
Soul Force: The Equation: Superpower Math (#1355)
Moral Charisma: Your Virtuous Soul Force in Action (#1356)
“HEY DADDY!”: Responding to Bids (#1357)
My Top 3 Love Targets: What Are YOURS? (#1358)
Your Socks: This Is How You Put Them On, Hero! (#1359)
Can You Get Back Up?: Even the Strongest Will Suffer (#1360)
Mental Toughness for Families: The 10 Rules for Resilience (#1361)
Heroic Self-Encouragement: Moving Beyond Self-Compassion (#1362)
On Death: Embracing Its Reality Does a Hero Good (#1363)
Do Your Job, Hero: You Have a Responsibility to Serve (#1364)
Failures: Should Arouse Determination (#1365)
Fighter A and Fighter B: Yogananda Says: Throw ONE More Punch, Hero (#1366)
Wooden’s 29 Years: Did You Know… (#1367)
Effort and Attitude: Focus on the Two Things You Can Control (#1368)
Command AND Obey: Nietzsche Says: Will Is the Joy Bringer (#1369)
Meet Your Guide: With a Capital “G” (#1370)
To Play Any Game: You Have to Start AND Keep Going (#1371)
What We’re Made to Do: Life Is Way Too Long AND Way Too Short… (#1372)
The Home Run King: Is Also the Strike Out King (#1373)
Believe in Yourself: Wisdom from the Circus (#1374)
Believe with All Your Heart: That You Will Do What You Are Here to Do (#1375)
Hope Revisited: It STARTS with Belief (#1376)
The Odds of Being Alive: 1 in 10 to the 2,685,000 Power (#1377)
Of Mice and Women: Eating: When Not What (#1378)
2,617 Times: Average American Phone Touches (#1379)
It's 11:59:30 on 12/31: On the Cosmic Calendar (#1380)
New DAY’s Resolutions: It's Day 1 (Again!) (ALWAYS!) (#1381)
Stutz: The Netflix Documentary by Jonah Hill (#1382)
Hard → Easy: Goethe, Snapping, and Pooping in the Toilet (#1383)
Singer’s Formula for Success: Do Whatever Is in Front of You With… (#1384)
Be Part of the Solution: vs. Part of the Problem (#1385)
I Vote!: So Do You: All Day, Every Day (#1386)
The Everyday Patriot: Casting Votes Every Second of Every Day (#1387)
Until One Is Committed…: Are YOU Committed? The First Step (#1388)
Buying Your Ticket: Time to Put Your Name on a Notice? (#1389)
Wake Up in the Middle of the Night?: Here’s What I Do (#1390)
If the Wind Will Not Serve: Take to the Oars (#1391)
Old School (Latin) Inspiration: For Our Modern Heroic Quests (#1392)
Rise Again: And Again. And Again! (#1393)
The Call of Our Time: Let’s Answer It, Hero! (#1394)
High-Sounding Words: And Actions That Correspond to Them (#1395)
Control Your Habits: If You Want to Be Free (#1396)
Hero on a Mission: That Would be YOU! (#1397)
How to Ruin a Good Story: Hint: Play the Role of a Victim, Hero! (#1398)
Pleasure vs. Meaning: Choose Wisely, Hero (#1399)
Resistance With a Capital R: Aka: Part X, The Demon, Etc. (#1400)
This (!) Is the Day: There Is NO Other Time (#1401)
The Pickax: Releasing Spiritual Strength (#1402)
4 Wise Elders: On What to Do With Challenges (#1403)
Programming Your Mind: To Show Up Heroically Energized, Productive and Connected (#1404)
The Path to Self-Realization: Sit Quietly and Create Calmness (#1405)
Calm Confidence: The Two Virtues in Each of My Big 3 (#1406)
Roar, Lion, Roar!: And Quit Bleating Like a Weak Sheep, Please (#1407)
Do Not Be Afraid of Anything: Navigate the Storm, Emerge Stronger, Fulfill the Mission (#1408)
Heroic the Stoic: Meet Our New Cat (#1409)
"I Love PUH!" (You?): Pain, Uncertainty and Hard Work (#1410)
32 Days Is How Long It Takes: For the Average American to Give Up On... (#1411)
Inspiration Exists: But It Has to Find You Working (#1412)
Endless Effort: Is a Force (Kinda Like Speed Is a Force) (#1413)
Pro Tip from Picasso: Look for a Situation in Which… (#1414)
Picasso Wasn’t Perfect: And THAT’s Perfect (#1415)
How to Be a Psychological Success: Maslow Says ANYONE Can Do This (#1416)
To Become a Master: We Must Start as a Beginner (#1417)
Raising Heroes: To Win or Learn! (#1418)
Hanging Out with Confucius: And Winning or Learning (#1419)
Let’s Talk About Heroes: With Vice Admiral James Stockdale (#1420)
You Are Your Brother’s Keeper: The Flip Side of What’s in It for Me? (#1421)
Chiseling Our Integrity: Delight with Life! (#1422)
Living in Integrity: Requires Clear Standards—You Clear? (#1423)
Is It Within Your Control?: Have This Wisdom Ready at Hand (#1424)
The Heroes and the Bums: And How to Sort Them Out (#1425)
Attack Each Day: With Joy and Enthusiasm (#1426)
Wisdom-Declarations: From Five Legendary Coaches (#1427)
Old School Grit: Backed by Modern Science (#1428)
Modern Science Grit: Featuring Angela Duckworth and Caroline Adams Miller (#1429)
The 15 Rules of Grit: Via Darrin Donnelly’s Old School Grit (#1430)
Champions Finish Strong: So Do Heroes. Do YOU? (#1431)
Don’t Waste a Day!!: Pretty Please with Stevia on Top (#1432)
MJ + Stuart Smalley: How to Forge Antifragile Confidence (#1433)
Relentless Optimism: And Targeted Thinking (#1434)
Failure Is a L-I-E: Here’s the (Scientific!) Truth (#1435)
Feeling Depressed?: Might As Well Have a Clean House! (#1436)
What Happens When You…: Hit 150 and 137 Heroic Targets (#1437)
Where’s Your Focus?: Clear Targets = Good for Golf and Life (#1438)
When Dreams Come True: La Piñata’s Heroic Story (#1439)
The Last Lecture: What’s Yours? (#1440)
The Elephant in the Room: Might as Well Name It (#1441)
The Last Letter: I Wrote to My Brother (#1442)
Earnest > Hip: Which Are You Aspiring to Be? (#1443)
Think Negatively: To Create Powerfully (#1444)
The ULTIMATE Practice: The Magic of the Creative Process Is… (#1445)
Someday Isle: Not Where We Want to Spend Our Time, Hero! (#1446)
You’re Teleological: Start Acting Like It! (#1447)
Successful People: Are Long-Term Thinkers (#1448)
The Battle Within: Wolves and Lawyers in Combat (Who’s Winning?) (#1449)
Practice-Confidence: Is the Source of True Self-Confidence (#1450)
DWYSYWD Part Deux: Do YOU Do What You Say You Will Do? (#1451)
Build Streaks: Do the Work Every Single Day (#1452)
The Best Reason to Say "No": Have a Bigger "YES!" (#1453)
Talent vs. Skill: Know the Difference (#1454)
The Power of... YET!: Growth and Grit Mindset 101 (#1455)
Me + Toe Nail Polish: As an Act of Love (#1456)
Make It a Game: Turning Chores Into Gifts and Into Games (#1457)
Cognitive Smoking: Are You Addicted? (#1458)
9 Things Successful People Do Differently: How Are YOU Doing with Them? (#1459)
Aristotle on Success: We MUST Realize Our Aims (#1460)
Yogananda on Success: Be on Fire with Purpose (#1461)
Success!: A Treasure Trove of Wisdom (#1462)
Greatness of Spirit: Activate Your Soul Force, Hero! (#1463)
The #1 Success Principle: The Event + Our Response = The Outcome (#1464)
Your Purpose: Clarified: Principle #2: Be Clear Why You’re Here (#1465)
Ty Cobb Playing Baseball at 70: He’d Only Bat .290, Maybe .300 (#1466)
An Inverse Paranoid: How to Become One Today (#1467)
The Magic Seeds of Adversity: Inverse Paranoids See the Benefit in the Obstacles (Do You?) (#1468)
Deciding to Conquer Fear: Here’s How to Learn to Love Thunderstorms (#1469)
WARNING: Maslow Says…: What’re Your Plans? (#1470)
The Curse of Perfection: And How to Exorcise It (#1471)
Promises vs. Excuses: Make One So You Don’t Have to Make the Other (#1472)
Got Health Challenges?: Appreciating Someone Who’s Served Our Loved Ones (#1473)
Who Has Supported YOU?: The Great Supporters Beside the Great Ones (#1474)
Facing Nolan: Breaking Records in Peaks and Valleys (#1475)
The Common Denominator of Success: You Know What It Is? (#1476)
Goggins on Belief: It’s a Gritty, Potent, Primordial Force (#1477)
The Savage: How to Maximize Minimum Potential (#1478)
“Roger That”: What to Say to the Heroic Gods (#1479)
Going Through Hell?: Churchill Says: Keep Going (#1480)
How to Deal With Fear: Use It as Fuel, Hero (#1481)
A Leader’s Role Is…: Is Problem Solving So… (#1482)
Are You Functionally Illiterate?: How Many Books Have You Read? (#1483)
Q: Hard Work or Luck?: A: YES! (#1484)
The Paratrooper’s Prayer: “Give Me What No One Wants from You” (#1485)
The Monthly Audit: Turning L’s into W’s (#1486)
Interruptions?: They’re Often the REASON for the Routines (#1487)
A Bowl Full of Coffee Beans: A Lesson on Focused Attention (#1488)
Lucky #13: The Philosopher’s Favorite Number (#1489)
WHEN to Eat (vs. What): Time-Restricted Eating Is ...! (#1490)
6:00 P.M. to Midnight: Tonight’s the Night! (#1491)
Move Your Body!: Plus: The Wolverine Diet (#1492)
Learning-Wins: How to Operationalize Winning or Learning (#1493)
Sacred Moments: The Highlight of Our Weekend (#1494)
Parenting Champions: The Question(s) to Ask (#1495)
Circadian Chickens: They’ve Got the Rhythm… Do You? (#1496)
THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT Interview: I’ve Ever Done (#1497)
Got Psychological Challenges?: Check This Out! (#1498)
My All-Time #1 Recommended Book: Brain Energy by Chris Palmer, MD (#1499)
What Is Metabolism?: The One-Sentence Answer (#1500)
Sleep, Light, and Circadian Rhythms: Step #1 in Getting Your Mitochondria Optimized (#1501)
Food, Fasting and Your Gut: Remember NOT to Eat! (#1502)
Purpose in Life: How’s Yours? (It Matters! A Lot.) (#1503)
Victory Favors the Fearless: Fear and Laziness and You (#1504)
The 7 Fears: We Must Conquer (#1505)
Faith & Fear: Feed One, Starve the Other (#1506)
Critics: Will Never Stop Criticizing (#1507)
Attack and Adapt: Then Attack and Adapt Some More! (#1508)
Confidence vs. Arrogance: The Difference Between the Two (#1509)
15 Secrets of Time Management: That Successful People Know (#1510)
Two Awesome Hours: How Are YOU Using Them? (#1511)
Hitting Your #1 WIN: All Day, Every Day (#1512)
The 80/20 Mindset: Applying It to Our Lives TODAY (#1513)
Touch It Once: Dominating WINs (#1514)
Energy Is Everything: How’s Yours? (#1515)
To Be Victorious in Life: Is to Engage in the Ultimate Battle (#1516)
Can’t Consciousness: And It’s Antidote (#1517)
Heroic Self-Compassion: Here’s Your Flashlight AND Your Hammer (#1518)
Saints: Study Their Lives: And See THIS Truth (#1519)
What I See in My Heroes: Staring at Me from My Wall (#1520)
If…: By Rudyard Kipling (#1521)
Not Getting What You Want?: Here Are Two (Potential) Reasons Why (#1522)
Dreams…: By Langston Hughes (#1523)
Advance Confidently!: Thoreau on Dreams (#1524)
The Road Not Taken: By Robert Frost (#1525)
Invictus: By William Ernest Henley (#1526)
A Recipe for a Good Life: By Muhammad Ali (#1527)
The Soul of a Butterfly: Truly Great People in History (#1528)
A Gold Medal in 1960: But No Meal In Your Hometown Restaurant (#1529)
Black Superheroes: In a White World (#1530)
Fight the Fear: We Can’t Be Brave Without the Fear (#1531)
The Will Must Be Stronger: Than the Skill (#1532)
Mattis's Instinct Cycle: “You Must Decide, Act, and Move On” (#1533)