I’m typing this seconds after my little Heroic angel, Eleanor Grace Johnson left my office.
I was working on the Philosopher’s Note on James Altucher’s great book Skip the Line when I felt a tap-tap-tap on my shoulder.
I looked around and saw a 7-year-old little girl (who’s not so little anymore!) wearing her new USS GEORGE H.W. BUSH hat, beaming at me with a huge smile on her face.
Me: “Hey there, my favorite little girl in the whole wide world!”
“Thanks for coming in to say hi!!”
Her: Incredibly cute smile.
Me: “Savor this!!!”
We laughed for a second then I asked her for a big hug.
She jumped in my arms and gave me the best full body bear hug with her arms (and legs!) squeezing me tight!
Me: “Wow! That was a GOOD ONE! You’re the best hugger in the world!!”
Her: Beaming.
Me: “Hey! Check this out…”
Then I grab my batphone (as my main/work phone was still in airplane mode as I’ve been in DEEP WORK/Creative Before Reactive mode all morning creating content so I can get ahead before a couple of big trips.
I open up the app and say…
“You know what I want to make sure I do EVERY DAY? Give YOU a big hug!!”
Her: Beaming.
Me: “Want to help me Target Swipe?”
Her: “YES!!”
We open the app, go to my Big 3 Love protocol and I ask her…
“Can you find the Target I want to swipe? Look for ‘Eleanor’”!
She finds “Big Hug with Eleanor.”
She swipes it to hit the Target.
Me: “Wow! You know how many times I’ve Target Swiped our hugs?” “592 times!” “How cool is THAT?”
Her: “WOW!”
Me: “Hey… How about another one?!”
Her: “YES!”
She leaps up into my arms. Gives me another one of those truly ALL IN incredible hugs.
Me to myself: “SAVOR THIS!”
Then we Target Swipe again.
Then we do it three more times.
She Target Swipes 5 hugs.
We’re now at 596 Hugs I’ve tracked in the app.
And…
That’s Today’s +1.
Your Mission, should you choose to accept it…
Go give someone a Hug.
Go ALL IN.
Like you really mean it.
Bonus points for telling them how much you love them.
Repeat Tomorrow.
And change your life.
One micro-moment of Awesome at a time.
All day. Every day.
In your Energy, your Work, AND your Love.
TODAY.
P.S. After filming that, I picked up the old batphone here and I checked it out — in the app, we have “Hug Someone” as a target you can swipe. Our community has hit that target, in aggregate, 324,500 times.
That’s awesome. Let’s go Heroes!
Changing the world, one hug at a time.
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