Brian Johnson shares Seth Godin's advice to build streaks by doing the work every single day. Jerry Seinfeld used a calendar to track daily jokes. Pick one non-negotiable habit: meditation, steps, sleep, or time with family.
Questions this video answers
"build streaks. Do the work every single day."
At least a minute a day.
Walking at least 10,000 steps a day.
Spending eight to nine hours in bed every day.
February 1st.
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Hi, this is Brian. Welcome back to another heroic plus one. Continuing our exploration of some big ideas from Seth Godin's great book, the Practice. Let's talk about how to build confidence in yourself and in your practice protocol. This is a very simple idea.
So simple that you might nod your head and agree and then completely forget about it. Let's not do that.
Here's the wisdom from Seth. He tells us, and I quote, build streaks. Do the work every single day.
Blog daily, write daily, ship daily, show up daily, find your streak and maintain it.
End quote. Again, that's such an obvious idea that it's really easy to nod our heads, agree, and then move on.
Stuck in the theory as we catalog the idea like a librarian of the mind and forget to actually practice it. Like a warrior of the mind to.
So we can achieve mastery. We've talked about streaks before.
See habits 101 for more. And a plus one called how to.
Avoid Habit suicide for more.
And you've probably heard of Jerry Seinfeld.
And his write a new joke a day streak, right?
I'd link to a plus one if we had one yet, but we don't.
So here's the basic idea.
When he was developing mastery as a comedian, and remember, there was a time.
When Jerry Seinfeld wasn't Jerry Seinfeld.
Young Jerry wrote a joke every day. He'd put a big old X on.
His calendar when he wrote a joke that day.
He liked seeing all those X's next.
To each other, and he didn't want to break the streak. And that's what we're talking about here. So today's plus one is simple. What's your streak?
Well, what's the one thing you know you could be doing that if you did it every single day, would most positively change your life, that you very importantly, intrinsically, really want to do.
No shooting on yourself here, Hiro.
That you really believe you can do.
Seriously, what is it?
What's the one thing that you'd like.
To build a streak with?
Getting your energy optimized by meditating for.
At least a minute a day. Walking at least 10,000 steps a day, spending eight to nine hours in bed every day. What is it?
Focusing on your work.
Win first thing every day.
Shutting down completely by a certain time.
Every day. Coaching someone every day. My heart just skipped a beat as I imagine doing that every day starting on February 1st with Heroic Mastery. What is it for you?
Optimizing your love by connecting with your family without your.
Your phone around every day, Kissing your spouse every day, hugging your kids every day. I've set all of those targets for myself in our heroic app.
Not all of them have perfect daily streaks, but my goodness, is it fun.
