Brian Johnson explains how to beat overwhelm by focusing on the next concrete action instead of the entire mountain ahead. Ask yourself each morning: what is one action moves me closer to my goal? Skip the time estimates. Take the step now.
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Hi, this is Brian. Welcome back to another heroic one. In our last one, we celebrated my 50th birthday day one by celebrating you and the precious lives we are blessed to have along with the sacred opportunity we all have to play our roles humbly yet heroically well. To create a world in which 51% of humanity is flourishing by the year 2051, we use Mark Twain's wisdom bomb as a catalyst to appreciate just how fast time flies when you're having fun. He tells us, 20 years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bow end. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Now, today's plus one. Let's get to work. We're going to talk about what to do when we inevitably feel overwhelmed. Alden tells us, and I quote, when your focus funnel widens too much and you bring in too many thoughts of future work, it can quickly lead you down a path of feeling overwhelmed and losing hope. The only action we can control is the one we take in the present moment. It's important to practice this. And below, I share an exercise that helps you do so. I call this the moment versus the mountain. He continues by telling us, and I quote, I use the word mountain to represent the mountain of work ahead of you. And any dream you pursue is going to require mountains of work. I want you to avoid psyching yourself out before you begin your climb toward your dream. Concentrate on the next action you must take. Nothing else matters. Use the mountain as a way to track your progress. Charting how far you've come can help you stay positive, but do not dwell on thoughts that are asking you, how much longer to the top? Dreams like mountaintops are reached. One action, one step at a time. And that's from chapter number seven, called Focus, in which Alton walks us through the importance of dominating the next most important thing. His approach is awesome. It's very similar to our heroic soul force equation, in which we know that we need to get our energy focused on what's important now consistently if we want to activate our heroic potential. Alden's super simple and equally powerful little exercise to help us dominate it. He tells us, and I quote, ask yourself every morning, what is one action I can take today that will move me closer to achieving my goal? With that in mind, I ask you, what is one action you can take today that will move you closer to achieving your goal? And is right now a good time to go crush that awesome get on that. It's time to forge our unstoppable mindsets as we move from theory to practice to mastery and give the world all we've got today.
