Unlocking Elite Performance: Strategies for High Achievers with Rachel Vickery

Productive Passions

Today’s Takeaways

• Emotional sobriety refers to not allowing your emotions control you. In the presence of strong emotions, you stay in control of your behavior.
• Being in a sympathetic state (sympathetic nervous system) is the fight, flight or freeze reaction we experience when faced with danger. Remaining in this state can lead to a scarcity mindset. In this state, we tend to hesitate, be defensive, and feel anxious. Our energy/attention is focused on threat.
• Being in a parasympathetic state looks like being rested, the feeling of being safe, and calm.
• Managing your state and staying away from redlining (or getting too far into a sympathetic state is improved by incorporating several strategies (your “get-out-of-jail-free card”) including:
  • Eyes Up - open up your field of vision - look up and at the periphery
  • Breathe out and drop your shoulders
  • Gratitude - Having a “pre-loaded” gratitude thought helps when you use this strategy. Think of things you are grateful for that you can recall when incorporating these strategies.

*Suggested best practice is to practice these strategies throughout the day so these become easier and more automatic to do. Practice this each time you reach for your phone. STOP (what you’re doing), DROP (your shoulders and chest) and FLOW (three diaphragmatic breaths - normal breathing in through your nose). This is your reset.

• Excellence requires not just mastering your craft but mastering yourself.
• For growth, dare to explore and say yes to opportunities that feel right even if they don’t appear “logical” at the moment. Ask yourself, does this make a difference?
• To help others be willing to share what you do so they know you can be a resource. Being able to step past your own fears, self doubt, and insecurities to serve others.

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