Hey Hero!
Michael here. Happy Friday!
Let’s put Theory → Practice with a quick reflection:
What went well this week?
What needed some work?
What will you do differently moving forward?
That’s like you! 🙌
✅ This Week’s Actions (Recap):
1️⃣ Watch: Module II: Hero-ology - Part 2: Training & Tools (poster + worksheets here). We practiced our philosophy with intensity,
learned basic orienteering, and equipped ourselves with powerful tools like the Virtue Compass, Heroic Healing Balm, Hero Pills, and more.
2️⃣ Practice: Focus on the 1, 2, 3 Optimize process daily. Keep it simple with a one-word response for each question or dive deeper—your choice! (Check out the Practice Overview for details.)
3️⃣ Heroic App Connection: Learn how to add “Eat a Challenge Like an Energy Bar” to your Heroic protocol and share your insights on Heroic social.
Sneak Peek of Next Week
Mastery Series: Module II: Hero-ology – Part 2: Training & Tools, in which we practice our philosophy with intensity, learn basic orienteering, and equip ourselves with ready-at-hand tools for the journey, including a Virtue Compass, Heroic Healing Balm, Hero Pills, Secret Weapons, Hero Fires, Pearls, Hope Maps, and Hero Bars.
📅 Live Coaching: Stay updated by adding the Heroic Coach Calendar to your calendar.
See you next week!
Love + High fives,
- Michael & Team Heroic Coach
P.S. As promised, here are my answers to last week’s pop quiz (warning: it got deep! 😄).
1 - Eudaimonia: A deep sense of joyful flourishing that comes from expressing the best version of myself, both for its own sake and in service to others/the world at large.
2 - Areté: The moment-to-moment opportunity to express the best version of myself and close the gap between who I’m CAPABLE of being and who I’m ACTUALLY being.
3 - Daimon: The part of me that’s not actually “me” in the traditional sense but a part of something greater than myself (and connected to the same within everyone else). It guides and encourages me to take part in the process of creating more beauty, joy, love, and growth in the world. My job is to connect to it and allow it to express itself through me to the greatest degree that I can.
4 - Hero: Someone who’s willing to do the hard work in order to have strength for two. They’re driven by love and committed to serving a higher purpose.
5 - Virtue: Qualities universally recognized as representing the best within us.
6 - Wisdom: Knowing the game I’m playing: what’s within my control and what isn’t.
7 - Discipline: The ability to ACTUALLY do what I know I’m CAPABLE of doing (and know to be best for me).
8 - Courage: The ability to take action in the presence of fear.
9 - Love: The wonder, grace, beauty, and joy from sharing this life with beings other than myself.
10 - Hope: The ability to see a future that’s better than the present, made up of a clear target (Goal!) plus my belief in my power to hit that target (Agency) and the willingness to explore as many pathways as it takes until I do (Pathways.) The tied-for-2nd virtue most highly correlated with well-being.
11 - Gratitude: Appreciation for the plentiful gifts (big and small!) I’ve been given, including (and most importantly!) the opportunity to take another breath and live another day. The other tied-for-2nd virtue most highly correlated with well-being.
12 - Curiosity: The ability to remain joyfully open to life, seeing what’s working and what needs work without any sense of guilt, shame, blame, etc.
13 - Zest: Energy! Life force. The #1 virtue most highly correlated with well-being.
14 - Antifragile: I learn from “failure” and grow stronger from getting knocked down or falling short.
15 - Confidence: Intense trust in my ability to do what I saw I will do + respond appropriately to any situation life gives me—regardless of the outcome.
16 - Protocol: a set of behaviors designed (and tested + validated!) to create a desired outcome.
17 - Response-Ability: the ability to (and loving DEMAND to!) pro-actively choose an empowered response (or intentional spontaneity) to life, rather than reacting impulsively and sub-optimally.
18 - Emotional Stamina: the ability to get myself to do what I know needs to be done, regardless of how I feel about it. The worse I feel, the more committed I am to my protocol. And the better I feel, the more committed I am to my protocol.
19 - Exonerated: the idea that at some point, I will be absolved from having to put forth any effort and that everything will be easy. 😄 (Never!)
20 - Challenges: = opportunities to rub my hands together, say “bring it on!” and grow stronger! OMMS
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