Brian Johnson records a brief Heroic +1 podcast episode describing a warm, spontaneous interaction with his seven-year-old daughter, Eleanor Grace Johnson. He recounts receiving multiple full-body hugs, using his app to "target swipe" and log each hug (bringing his personal total to 596 in this session), and issues a call-to-action encouraging listeners to give wholehearted hugs daily. In a P.S. he notes the community has swiped the "hug someone" target 324,500 times in aggregate.
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Hi, this is Brian. Welcome back to another heroic plus one. I'm typing this seconds after my little heroic angel Eleanor Grace Johnson left my office. I was working on the Philosopher's note on James Altucher's great book Skip the Line when I felt a tap, tap tap on my shoulder. I looked around and saw a seven year old little girl who's not so little anymore wearing her new USS George H.W. bush hat beaming at me with a huge smile on her face. Me. Hey there my favorite little girl in the whole wide world. Thanks for coming in to say hi. Her incredibly cute smile. Me. Savor this. We laughed for a second. Then I asked her for a big hug. She jumped up in my arms and gave me the best full body bear hug with her arms and legs squeezing me tight. Me. Wow. That was a good one. You're the best hugger in the whole world. Her beaming me hey check this out. Then I grabbed my bat phone as my main work phone was still in airplane mode. As I've been in deep work creative before reactive mode all morning creating content so I can get ahead before a couple of big trips. I open the app and say, you know what I want to make sure I do every day give you a hug. Her beaming still me. You want to help me target swipe her? Yes. We open the app, go to my big three love protocol and I ask her can you find the target I want to swipe? Look for Eleanor. She finds big hug with Eleanor. She swipes it to hit the target. Me. Wow. You know how many times I've target swiped our hugs? 592 times. How cool is that? Her wow me. Hey, how about another one? Her. Yeah. She leaps up into my arms, gives me another one of those truly all in incredible hugs. Me to myself savor this. Then we target swipe again. Then we do it three more times. She Target swipes five hugs. We're now at 596 hugs I've tracked in the app and that's today's plus one. Your mission should you choose to accept it. Go give someone a hug. Go all in like you really mean it. Bonus points for telling them how much you love them. Go all in like you really mean it. Repeat tomorrow and change your life one micro moment of awesome at a time, all day, every day in your energy, your work and your love today. P.S. after filming that, I picked up the old bad phone here and I checked out in the app we have hug someone as a target you can swipe. Our community has hit that target in aggregate 324,500 times. That's awesome. Let's go, heroes. Changing the world one hug at a time.
