How To Perform At Work With Ease & No Stress

“Work hard and succeed”. All our lives we have been trained by our parents, school systems, and society to believe that working hard and even harder is the way to climb the societal ladder and to become ‘someone of value’. Everyone who has ever been cracking a deadline in the middle of the night, knows how tough it can be to push through. Of course, we generally get where we want to be, but at what expense? It takes an enormous toll on our focus and concentration when we try to push through our tiredness. In this lesson, Femke talks about the power of relaxation and its importance in calming down our stress responses. You'll learn the first step of setting your baseline: a breathing exercise which you can use anytime to cue your body into relaxation.

Time is precious. It flies pretty fast. Dealing with time under pressure is one common challenge for most folks, let alone high performers. Do you ever notice yourself thinking, "I don’t have time to (something you really need to do to feel better), because of my deadline/ upcoming performance?" In this lesson Femke talks about the power of meditation to move from a time shortage perspective to a time relativity perspective. You'll learn the second step of setting your baseline - a meditation practice to bring your attention to the present moment; a tool that can also be used anytime to bring our awareness to the here and now.

When we strive to improve whatever we are doing in life, we sometimes forget why we want to improve. In this lesson, Femke explains how connecting with yourself and your intuition can naturally bring all the improvements you like to see, but without the effort you generally assume it takes. You'll learn step 3, the last step to set your baseline. You will learn a pretty effortless meditation technique, which can get you quickly into a deep and silent meditation. It moreover helps you connect with your inner core, that inner voice of who you really are. Because that is the place where it all starts.

What is the difference between being motivated and being inspired? Although both concepts might look a lot alike, to be motivated, we often have to first motivate ourselves to start. Inspiration is something that happens to us, and when it does, we get into that wonderful flow of life. In today’s lesson, Femke shows how you can use your baseline to get ready to invite your inspiration in, and moreover, to feel how you can trust that inspiration is always available for you.

Remember how, as a kid, you would use your imagination to create a different or better world for you and your friends to play in? When we work hard and with perseverance, especially when we need to meet expectations soon, we sometimes forget how playfulness could serve our preparation. Visualization is a wonderful tool to prepare for anything that might come up in life, including our peak performances. Moreover, playfulness is always part of visualization. Today, Femke teaches you a visualization technique to playfully prepare your performance, which can be used as a followup to the baseline meditation, or as a standalone meditation.

To deliberately cultivate compassion, understanding and love for ourselves is something we often take for granted. That’s because we think we are kind enough to ourselves, but not kind enough to others. The truth is that it is very often reversed. We punish ourselves when we feel disappointed about our efforts, achievements, or even micro-targets we have in our lives. When are we truly cheering ourselves on? In this lesson, Femke explains how being kind and supportive to yourself stands at the core of every success in your life. She will then guide you in a meditation that will help you to be your own biggest fan.

Today, Femke will recap the lessons of this week and explain how you can use the tools of this course separately and combined. She also explains how you can use these tools to set your baseline and how you can use the visualization tools from that baseline. Femke then invites you to meditate for 30 days with the Baseline meditation, so will ake it a daily habit. This habit will serve you well in many aspects of life, but in particular as an excellent instrument to peak your performance. Peaking your performance will be done with more gentleness and relaxation. The guided baseline meditation was recorded separately, so you can use it as a standalone meditation for the coming 30 days (and beyond), in case you accept the challenge to create a daily meditation habit that will help you peak your performance. This meditation can be found in the next day (Day 7 - Part II).

This is an audio with the baseline meditation only. The baseline meditation is the core practice you learned in my course to set your baseline, so you can start your day with calm and ease. Practice this meditation on a regular basis, preferably daily, to prepare yourself for any performance. After 30 days, you will notice a shift in your ability to get ready to perform.