Brian Johnson shares quick ways to create connection through small compliments. A stranger's beard comment in the passport office made someone's day. Notice what you admire in others and say it out loud.
Hi, this is Brian. Welcome back to another heroic plus one. I started typing this while sitting in the Houston Passport Office waiting area. We were getting Emerson's passport so we had the option to make a potential trip to Toronto together and so he can go to Athens with us for our heroic adventure in November. There's still time to join us. Go get a link in the plus once you can learn more and sign up and join us if you want to come now. I was thinking about flying out to support my friend John Herdman and the guys on his Major League Soccer team, Toronto FC as they make a big playoff push and finish the year strong. Jon loves Emerson and knows Emerson is a big fan of the team and being the incredibly cool human being he is, he invited Emerson to join me to meet his heroes and get a behind the scenes look at the training facilities and go to the big game, etc. Thanks John. Note we decided to skip the trip to Toronto and watch a game in Houston with the wifey and Eleanor as well a few weeks later instead. Fun fact. John's boy is no longer a little boy. He's a soccer phenom in his own right and played for New Zealand in this year's Olympics in Paris. Very cool. But that's not quite the point of this plus one. This is now. I'm always looking for micro moments of awesome when I'm out of the hermitage and out in the wild. So I made sure I told the woman helping us with the passport that I loved her double nose piercings, which I did, and she lit up. Micro moment of awesome. Target swipe. And I just told a guy walking by, good looking beard sir. He beamed. Micro moment of awesome Target swipe. And that's today's plus one. Go find things you admire in people out in the world. Take a moment to tell them. Exit your cocoon of self absorption and be awesome. Connect all day, every day. Especially today. P.S. i'm repeating these out in the wild micro moments of awesome Target swipe experiences because I remain astonished at just how powerful these moments are. Check out our notes on Love 2.0 for more on the life changing science. If you tend to be a bit of an introverted hermit like me.
