In this short Heroic Plus One micro‑episode, Brian Johnson shares a personal parenting moment where he and his son Emerson sleep in separate queen‑size beds for the first time. He reflects on the emotional significance of expressing admiration for his son, describing tears and heartfelt praise for Emerson’s coachability, kindness, and palpable energy. Brian interweaves a historical tidbit about Abraham Lincoln sharing beds with his lawyer friends, using it as a lighthearted perspective on co‑sleeping. He then challenges listeners to identify and vocalize what they admire in their own loved ones, urging them to share those sentiments today. The episode concludes with a call to subscribe, visit heroic.us for his broader library of wisdom, and engage with his programs aimed at optimizing life and living heroically.
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Hi, this is Brian. Welcome back to another Heroic Plus One. In our last several Plus Ones, we've been mining parenting poop emoji for antifragile fuel emoji. Let's continue. So after cleaning up my suboptimal parenting performance, Emerson and I were in our separate queen-size beds chatting before falling asleep. Note, this is the very first time we've ever slept in separate beds when it's just the two of us. He's getting huge and tends to steal the sheets in the middle of the night. LOL. So we thought we'd try this out, but we'll be going back to sleeping in the same bed again until we simply can't. I'm not ready for the last time we share a bed yet. Fun fact, Abraham Lincoln used to share a bed with his lawyer friends when he was out on the road. So maybe we'll keep it going for a while longer. Now, as we were getting ready to fall asleep, I said, you want to know all the things I admire about you? I got tears in my eyes typing that. I got tears in my eyes when I said it. He said, yeah. I said, well, there's a lot. Of course, I admire how coachable you are and how committed you are to being your best. But the thing I most admire about you is that you're just a good, wonderful person. You have an energy about you that's palpable. It inspires me so much. I could feel him soaking it in. I get tears in my eyes right now. Then I continued, remember the chest stab? Whose young son admires you? He said, yeah. I said, he told me that he appreciates how kind you are to his son. And he also told me that you have an aura about you. He said that he could feel your confidence and power and goodness and that he knew you were going to be very successful in life. Yes. I got tears in my eyes typing that and saying that right now, too. And yes, I'm sharing that so you can think of what you can celebrate in your kids. Or loved ones, again, if you don't have them. That's today's plus one. What do you most admire in your loved ones? Go tell them today. Hey, this is Brian. Thanks for spending a few minutes with me today. If you enjoyed it, please hit subscribe so that the best of the show keeps landing in your feed. Then head over to heroic.us. That's heroic.us, where you'll find the full library of wisdom I've created over the last 20 years, as well as the app, advanced training programs, coaching, and everything else we've built to help you optimize your life, actualize your potential, and live heroically. It is day 1. We are all in. Let's go.
