17 Dec 2025 · 3 min
Brian Johnson offers a quick practice for regaining balance when life feels chaotic. Spin until dizzy, then focus on your fingertips. Then ask yourself three questions: what's your number-one self-care habit, what one thing could you start, and what one thing could you stop. He calls these your equanimity anchors.
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Hi, this is Brian.
Welcome back to another Optimize plus one.
In our last plus one we talked.
About the fundamentals and how fundamental they are to our optimizing and actualizing.
Eat, move, sleep, breathe, be present, prosper.
As I said, if I could whisper one thing in my younger selves here.
I think it would be to master.
Those guys as I'm firmly convinced that when we get our physiology properly optimized, the rest tends to follow pretty smoothly via the super strong connection we've created between our normal selves and our eudaimonic optimist best self. Today I want to talk about another idea from the Big Picture lecture on the subject. Remember the spinny fingers we talked about.
Back in the day?
I've got a link to that plus one Basic Recap Find a safe place to spin around and get yourself dizzy. Then do one of two things. First, after getting yourself nice and dizzy.
Stop spinning and start looking aimlessly around the room.
Up over there, down there, all around.
What happens when you have no central point to ground yourself? You get dizzier.
Shake that off.
Then, if you feel so inspired, get yourself nice and dizzy again.
Only this time, rather than aimlessly looking.
Around, press your palms and fingers together in front of your face like you're praying and stare intently right at your fingertips. What happens when you have a central point in which you can ground yourself?
You immediately get balanced. Dizzy.
Be gone. Try it.
It's pretty cool.
Do both of them feel the difference?
So all of that brings us to the point of today's plus one. The next time you find yourself getting all dizzy by life, consider pausing and asking yourself three simple questions.
Number one, what's my number one self care habit?
Am I honoring it or have I let it slip?
Number two what's the number one thing I could start doing that would have.
The most positive impact in my life?
Number three, what's the number one thing I could stop doing that would have.
The most positive impact in my life?
The number ones times three Number one self care equals Number one positive thing equals and number one negative thing equals what? I call those equanimity anchors.
How are yours?
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