OPTIMIZE with Brian Johnson | More Wisdom in Less Time

Ready to make 2019 the Greatest Year of Your Life? Me, too. It’s time to Operationalize Virtue—getting (even more) clarity on what our Optimus selves look like and getting even better at consistently showing up AS that best version of ourselves.

In our last +1, we talked about our micro farm in our backyard. As we discussed, it’s absolutely fascinating to me that those seeds just hang out in the packet and then burst out of the ground once their life force is activated.

Dr. Mercola is a super-popular alternative health physician who runs the equally popular site Mercola.com. In this book, we get a look at his “Mitochondrial Metabolic Therapy” program. MMT for short.

Not too long ago, we talked about the Golden Buddha. In fact, as you may recall, we talked about him twice.

In our last +1, we talked about LeBron James and the fact that he tries to get 11 to 12 hours of sleep per day when he’s training. (So does Roger Federer. And, Tom Brady is in bed at 8:30.) Let’s talk about LeBron a little more today...

Susan Peirce Thompson is a Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the University of Rochester. She’s an expert in the psychology of eating and creator of Bright Line Eating Solutions, “a company dedicated to helping people achieve long-term, sustainable weight loss.

Tom Brady is one of the (if not the) greatest football players of all time. He’s won five Super Bowl Championships and is still dominating at over 40 years old.

In our last +1, we talked about the 11 things you’d do if you had zero fear. (How’d that go for you? :) Today I’d like to bring my old coach Steve Chandler in to the discussion so he can share his wisdom on the subject.

In our last +1, we talked about driving with your brakes on. We took a nice, deep breath and then we took our foot off the fear-of-failure brakes.

Solitude. It’s the secret sauce to leadership. But... In their great book Raymond Kethledge and Michael Erwin tells us: “Solitude is a state of mind, a space where you can focus on your own thoughts without distraction, with a power to bring mind and soul together in clear-eyed conviction.