10 tips to give yourself a winning edge every day!

1. Get up and before you reach for your latte ….start each day with an intention that you are a winner@life! Even if you don’t feel it say it in your head - go nuts with some repetitive mantras. Your subconscious mind will pick up the program and relay it to your action neurons.

2. Before you launch into action, plan your day with your winning team (checklists, Trello Board, google tasks). Include your morning routine, work tasks, and commitments you make to yourself (e.g.move more, meditate, read a personal development blog). The promises you keep to yourself are your swipe keys out of your rut and into your success mindset! EXPECT schedule changes, upsets, spanner throws. When these happen KEEP CALM AND SMILE. You factored these in and you got this! Change is a constant and you are a magician because you know how to alchemise a disruption by installing your FILTER strategy.

3. Before you REACT to an upset (road rage, the ooooff%@#! moments and the let downs, do one of these 3 things, !) Tap the side of your head 2) Take an invisible belly breath 3) Close your eyes and inhale. Basically you are working on those pesky neurons again and preventing them from breeding the pathway to emotional hell.

4. At this moment, I want you to take yourself out of your body and be the CCTV on your situation. Yep you are your own spy cam. What’s going on for you? Name your emotion be it anger, frustration, fear, dread, disappointment etc. Sounds a bit woo woo? Well maybe it is but you’re smart and you know that woo woo is code for emotional intelligence so back to the spy cam...

5. Now you’ve coded your emotion, feel it but don’t drown in it. In this instance ask yourself if this emotion is helpful for you or not? In an emergency fear is helpful as it can help you pivot to safety. But when your boss is salty at you, or you get rejected does being fearful or hurtful help or hinder? Is this really an emergency? Does it really warrant a fight or flight response that causes more stress or anxiety? 99.95% of times the answer is NO. So you are smart and you know bad stress and anxiety do not serve you, so you activate your winning neuron pathway.

6. You process the emotion. You pass it through a more helpful FILTER. For example, your boss is just trying to do their job (competently or not), or maybe they are insecure and taking this out on the first incoming target being you. Or that the rejection was just redirection or a universal protection. Helpful filters are resourceful. Unhelpful filters are not. And resourceful thinking leads to high quality outcomes and you are all about that!

7. Now that you’ve processed the emotion you take a different action. You forgive yourself for being reactive and explore your options through the helpful/unhelpful filter and you get on with your day. Maybe you get the report your boss needed without wasting sulky energy. Or you take a different networking based job search strategy. Or you let your kids have a bit more screen time to protect your sanity. Whatever it is, the outcome gets you back to Calm, Cool and Collected.

8. Congratulations! By getting your buddha on you’ve detached from unresourceful emotions and connected to empowering thinking. You can take yourself out of the spy cam and back into your body with ease.

9. Now take the inspired action, knowing you’ve applied the magic filter and trusting that the best results will come your way because you are directing and producing your day. Situations and reactions are subject to your thinking choices and neural mastery!

10. Before you retire for the land of nod, reflect back on your wins. Your best actor scenes of the day. Say yes to the successes and the new mindset highways you are constructing. Sleep in peace and the next day...Plan, Process, Perform, Play and REPEAT!

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