Micro Class - What Are Your #1s?
17 Dec 2025 · 4 min
Short podcast/micro-class by Brian Johnson (Sept 25, 2015) presenting a simple growth practice: identify one positive habit to start and one negative habit to stop ("+1, -1") and apply them consistently. The episode also includes promotional outro describing the Optimizer newsletter and an Optimal Living membership offering philosopher's notes and classes.
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Hey, guys, what's up? This is Brian. We've got another video this morning. This one's going to be a simple one. What are your number ones? Simple but super powerful. For me, it's been one of the most transformative practices that I've done since I picked it up, gosh, I don't know, maybe 10 years ago from Brian Tracy. So he has this great idea. Anytime you're feeling off or you just want to kind of dial in your life even more, ask yourself, what is the number one thing I could start doing that if I started doing it today and consistently, this would have the most positive impact on my life. What is that? What's the number one thing you could start doing that if you did it consistently would have such a huge impact in your life? Could be meditation, could be exercise, could be recording a video every day, could be writing a blog post. Could be any number of different things. What is it? What's the number one thing you could start doing? That if you did it consistently would have the most positive impact in your life? Do that.
Huge.
That's our number one positive. Now on the other side, what's the number one thing you could stop doing? That if you stop doing it would have the most positive impact in your life. So, number one, negative. Number one positive, start doing it. Number one negative, stop doing it. Figure that out. Get on it. It could be no longer checking email at night or at stoplights or whatever. Could be reducing Facebook time. Could be no longer eating a certain type of food. Could be no longer sleeping in bed until a certain time. Whatever it is for you, figure out what your number one negative habit is. That if you removed it, you would totally change your life. Would push you forward in a really positive way. Plus one, minus one. What's your number one positive thing you could start doing that would have a huge impact. What's number one thing you could stop doing? I come back to this. I've journaled this dozens and dozens and dozens of times and I'll just reflect on it and it's an amazing way to fine tune my life and I hope you dig it. So think about it. Number one, I will start doing this every day. Fill in the blank. I will stop doing this. I promise you, if you do this and you do this consistently, you will take significant steps toward optimizing your lives. So there you go. What are your number ones? Hope you enjoyed. Have a great one. See ya.
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