Brian Johnson explains time blocking: creating distraction-free periods to focus on your most important task. He uses a 30-90 minute morning block for deep work after meditation and blocks off evenings and weekends for family. Gary Keller's The One Thing inspired the approach.
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Hi, this is Brian. Welcome back to another arete plus one degree one of 451 micro chapters from our new book. Arete, activate your heroic potential. Excited about it. Appreciate all of you who have already pre ordered. The book comes out November 14th. We're fired up. This idea is called Time blocks. The number one power tool for great days. Gary Keller created the largest real estate agency in the world. He also wrote a great book called the One Thing, in which he tells us how he achieved his extraordinary success. As per the subtitle of his book, he shares the surprisingly simple truth behind extraordinary results. That surprisingly simple truth? Focus. He tells us that we need to ruthlessly focus on what's important. He takes the 8020 principle to the extreme and has us tighten our focus until we get to the one thing that drives the whole show. Then he has you ruthlessly focus on what you need to do today to make that one thing a reality. Knocking over the next domino in a chain of dominoes that inevitably leads to the outcome you're looking for. Of course, just figuring out what your one thing is over the long run and for today obviously takes clear thinking and demands some deep work to get that clarity. Which leads us to the number one practical tip Gary shares. He calls it the number one power tool of time management. What is it? Time blocking. Basic idea. Create a block of time in which you eliminate all distractions. Focus on whatever you decided is the most important thing. Then we make a habit of doing that every single day. Time blocking. If you want to activate your heroic potential, it's a must. It's obvious how powerful this can be for work. It's less obvious just how powerful this can be with love. I personally have a dedicated deep work time block. Every single morning right after my meditation, I show up and hit my most important win in a 30, 60, 90 minute creative before reactive deep work session. It's my secret weapon for heroic productivity. You couldn't pay me to not do it. With rare but important exceptions, I hit this every morning for love. I like to create time blocks every weeknight after my shutdown complete to spend with the kids. No phone, no distractions, just me and the family. I like to create even bigger time blocks on the weekends. These are my secret weapons for heroic connection. How about you? How can you step up your time block game in both your work and your love? Get on that today. I hope you enjoyed that. Arete One Degree from my new book, Activate youe Heroic Potential. The book will be shipped on November 14, right before Black Friday in time to make it the perfect holiday gift, perhaps. I wanted to let you know that we have some special giveaways if you think you might like to pre order the book, and even more goodies if you think you might want to give the book away this holiday season. Here's the deal. Pre order one copy and get a free advanced reader copy of the ebook today. Pre order three copies and get a free advanced copy of the ebook and the audiobook and a limited edition Arete Coin that we'll send to you. Pre order 10 copies of the book. Bless you and get all of that plus an autographed advanced hardcover reader copy sent to you immediately inside the fancy Arete VIP box, which is packed with other goodies including this Arete T shirt, a Heroic t shirt and 10 free annual heroic memberships for your gift recipients. You'd be able to give them a book and a year's worth of Heroic for free. If you pre order 25 copies, you'll get all that plus a free ticket to our launch event party in Austin November 10th through 12th and you'll get a personal voice memo thank you and a high five from me if you're feeling inspired to order over 50 copies of the book. We've been blessed to have a lot of CEOs and corporations do that. We'll give you a huge discount. Just let us know all of this. You can learn more about at Heroic U.S. book Heroic U.S. book of course you can order the book on Amazon, Barnes and Noble. Independent bookstores will be everywhere you can buy a book, Hudson's Airport stores, et cetera. And let us know of course when you've done that and purchased a copy or three or ten or more if you feel inspired to do so at Heroic Us Book. I appreciate you and I hope you love the book. I'm super excited about it, super proud of it, and I hope it helps you and your families transform your lives.
