Optimize With Brian Johnson | More Wisdom In Less Time

In our last +1, we talked about our new Optimus launch code: "5… 4… 3… 2… 1… Now what needs to be done?”    Although I didn’t make the second part of the little launch mantra explicit, we connected Mel Robbins’s brilliant 5 Second Rule with David Reynold’s Constructive Living Rule.   It’s always awesome to see teachers from such different backgrounds say basically exactly the same thing.   As you may recall, Reynolds is a Zen therapist who wrote a great little book called Constructive Living.    He tells us: “Our behavior is controllable in a way that our feelings are not. There is a very special satisfaction for the Artist of Living who works within life’s limits to produce a fine self-portrait. The more control we develop over our actions, the more chance we have of producing a self we can be proud of.”   His mantra?    “Now what needs to be done?”   (We have a +1 on this already but it’s worth a replay.)   Don’t feel like doing something you know you need to do? No problem.    “Now what