Areté +1° #192: Your Prior Best = Your New Baseline (#1,566)

Hi, this is Brian. Welcome back to another arete plus one degree one of 451 micro chapter big ideas to help you activate your heroic potential from my new book Arete. Again, thank everyone who has already purchased a copy. Pre order comes out November 14th. Let's go. Today's plus one degree, your prior best equals your new baseline. It's time to put some pen to paper. As we begin to architect our protocol or unapologetically ambitious target, we want to make your prior best your new baseline. To do that, we need to spend some time thinking about you at your best. Let's grab that flashlight of curious awareness and shine a bright light on those times in your life when you've shown up as your best. If you feel so inspired, grab a piece of paper. Put me at my best at the top. Then draw a line right down the middle. At the top on the left side, put I do this at the top. On the right side, put I don't do this. Now write down some of the things you do when you're at your best and some of the things you don't do when you're at your best. Don't overthink it. Just write down what comes to mind on your first pass. And make sure you write down what you do in energy, work and love when you're at your best and what you don't do. Got it? Good. Now here's a pro tip. You want to feel great more and more consistently. Do more of the do stuff and do less of the don't stuff. Now, it's not easy to do that, but it really is that simple. Seriously. Now take another look at all the behaviors on that piece of paper. What's the number one thing you do when you're at your best that you're currently not doing? That if you did start doing it consistently, would most change your life? Seriously, what is it? You got it. Fantastic. Circle it. Now imagine your life with that habit installed along with all the other ones from the do list. Then imagine deleting all, yes, all the bad habits from the don't do list. We know you can do that because you've already done it in the past. Remember the science of self efficacy. As you may recall, one of the most important ways to build your confidence with your current challenges is to recall times in the past where you demonstrated mastery. With that in mind, we just need you to make your prior best your new baseline. I'll leave it at that for now as we'll spend our time in the next objective talking about the art and science of behavioral change so you can install and delete habits like a ninja. For now. Know this. It's impossible for me to overstate the power of having clarity on the things that help us activate our heroic potential and then all caps doing those things whether we feel like it or not. Make that, especially when we don't feel like it. Here's to forging your antifragile confidence and making your prior best your new baseline hero. I hope you enjoyed that. Arete One Degree from my new book Arete Activate your 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, etc. And let us know of course when you've done that and purchased a copy of 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.