Brian Johnson uses Independence Day as a frame to help you declare independence from bad habits. He walks through a simple exercise: name three past wins, then draft a declaration with outcomes, benefits, obstacles, and a plan. The ancient Greek hero was a protector defined by love and compassion.
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Hi, this is Brian. Welcome back to another Optimize plus one. For those of you in the state celebrating today, happy Independence Day. For everyone else around the world, Happy 4th of July. The 4th of July. Of course, today we're celebrating Independence Day, but it's important to note that we're not celebrating the day we won our independence. We're celebrating the day we declared our independence. Of course, there was seven years worth of blood, sweat and tears that went into the revolutionary war to back up that declaration, but that's a pretty cool distinction when you think about it for a moment. So today's +1.2 parts. First, let's celebrate all the little independence days of our lives. Those moments when we declared our independence from the bad habits that were tyrannizing our lives. With that in mind, what are three bad habits from which you've won your independence? Think about it. One, two, three. Fantastic high fives. Fireworks. Now it's time to make a new declaration of independence. From which keystone bad habit will you declare your independence from this day forward? I think the preamble to your declaration goes something like this. When in the course of an individual's life, it becomes necessary for that person to. To dissolve the bands which have connected them with bad habits, and to assume among the powers of the earth the self mastery and virtue to which the laws of nature and nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the scientific wisdom of the ages requires that they should whoop their plans to win their revolutionary war within themselves. As such, I insert your name here. Hereby declare my independence from this bad habit. What is it for you? I hereby whoop the successful revolutionary war against said habit. This is my wish. This is my outcome. I shall experience these benefits, and these are my obstacles. What are you going to face?
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And this is my plan to deal with those obstacles.
Whoop.
Enter a powerful necessity to act as we discuss all the time. Here's to winning that revolutionary war and honoring your declaration of independence.
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