+1: 5 Core Habits - How to Consistently Create GREAT Days

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Hi, this is Brian. Welcome back to another Optimize plus one. In our last plus one, we talked about Matthew Kelly's encouragement to slow down, step back and take the decade view on our lives. Quick check in. What's your decade view look like? And you do these exercises, right? It's the only way we're going to move from theory. Oh, that's a good idea to practice. Ah, that's what I want and that's what I need to optimize in order to get it. So another great idea from Matthew's equally great book, Off Balance. He tells us that we need to get really clear on what makes a great day and then make those behaviors core habits. Here's how he puts it. He says if you look back on the past 90 days, some days were better than others. There were probably some great days, a lot of fairly average days, and perhaps some bad days. What caused the great days? Was each one just happenstance, completely out of your control, nothing to do with you? Or are there certain things that you did that predispose that day to being a great day? Matthew started asking himself what things he could do in a given day that barring something super weird, would produce a really good day and as I like to say, make it almost impossible to have a bad day. He identified five core habits. Today's plus one. What are yours? Look back over the last 90 days. Notice the great days, the average days, and the bad days. What were you doing on the really great days? And what were you doing on the really bad days? Specifically, what five core habits can you create to make those great days much more likely? Number one. Number two. Number three. Number four. Number five. Think about it. Come up with that. And what's the one core kryptonite that's leading to the really bad days? It's this guy. Fill in the blank, install, delete, repeat.

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