Mark Devine, a former Navy SEAL commander, explains how to cut through chaos: identify the next most important target, focus your attention on it, and execute. Brian Johnson applies this to everyday life and defines a hero as a protector with strength for two, guided by love.
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Hi, this is Brian. Welcome back to another Optimize plus one. So in our last plus one, we talked about spinny fingers and how to quickly regain your equanimity when life spins us around. Here's another way to do that. Mark Devine is a former commander in the Navy seals. He tells us that in the chaos of war, elite SEALs are taught to simplify the battlefield. When the fog of battle rolls in and things are nowhere near as clear as they were a moment before, it's absolutely essential that we simplify everything. Commander Divine tells us that we need to identify the next most important target and then put all of our energy into successfully executing that micro mission. As we maintain what he calls front sight. Focus. Simplify. Identify next target. Focus. Execute that micro mission.
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That's an incredibly effective way to roll, especially when things are most challenging. That's today's plus one. How can you simplify the battlefield of your life? What's the most important thing right now? Give it your front side focus. Hoo ya. So a little PS here. The last four digits of my phone number are 5320. Mark tells me that 5320 just so happens to be the call signal for a junior seal. It's become a fun game to sign off my text messages to the commander with -5320.
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