Removing Your Inner Blocks To Success

The pressure to succeed in a fast-paced world with 24/7 connectivity causes many high performing leaders to feel exhausted, overwhelmed and burned out. Using mindfulness and a powerful framework of E+R=O, this lesson will teach you how to pause, be fully present and make more intentional, positive choices. Discover the tools to stop complaining and start taking radical responsibility for the outcomes you desire.

In this session, you’ll learn how to optimize your performance and improve productivity by harnessing the natural rhythms of the brain and working in pulses. The guided meditation will support you in increasing your attention span and conscious awareness so you can have a laser like focus on your top priorities each day.

The key to feeling motivated and energized at work is to spend as much time as possible in your zone of genius. Gallup surveyed over 10 million people worldwide on the topic of employee engagement and found that people who get to focus on their strengths are six times as likely to be engaged in their jobs and three times as likely to report an excellent quality of life overall. In today’s session, you’ll identify your unique genius and discover the things you do best. You’ll also learn about the competency trap and how to avoid it. And you’ll perform an energy and flow audit to increase the amount of time you spend doing things you enjoy at work and at home.

Using neuroscience and the latest brain research, you’ll be learning a breathing technique to help you stay calm when feeling stressed or anxious. We live in a culture that values exciting, fast-paced, aggressive, high-stress work life and general intensity. This causes many of us to live in a chronic state of adrenaline overload. After today’s session, you’ll be able to self-regulate and soothe your nervous system so you aren’t always in fight or flight mode.

Pursuing success at all costs can lead to burnout and exhaustion. The secret to creating more sustainable success is to choose goals that are aligned with your core values. In today’s session, you’ll identify the core values that are necessary for you to live your best life. When you’re not living your values, you feel out of balance, or overwhelmed and out of touch with your heart. As you begin living your values more fully, you’ll feel aligned, purposeful, powerful and full of joy, with a deep knowing that you’re embodying that which is true for you.

Based on a leadership program Vanessa teaches at Stanford Business School, today you’ll be guided through a visualization to connect with your future self over the next five years. Visualization is an effective tool to harness the power of your subconscious mind and achieve your goals with ease. This session will help you tune into a deeper wisdom that makes it easier to find the “right” path for you. You’ll leave today’s session with greater clarity and a vision for your ideal life that allows you to move forward with confidence.

In Day 7, you’ll learn a 10 step Weekly Planning Process to get more done and find time for replenishing activities so you end the day (and week!) feeling energized instead of depleted. Have you had the experience of just getting through the day, rushing around, responding to everyone else’s demands? Then, the day is over and you still haven’t done what’s most important or had a moment to spare for yourself? Not being intentional or prioritizing your time effectively is costly. Today’s class will teach you how to get even more done and ensure you’re focused on the most important tasks to move your career and life forward.

In Day 8, you’ll identify the fears, beliefs and excuses that have kept you stuck. What we resist, persists. Today, we’ll be bringing your unconscious blocks to the surface to be shifted and released with love and compassion. The guided meditation will support you in befriending and honoring your feelings and giving yourself the love and support you need. As you remove these blocks that have been stopping you from achieving the success you truly desire in your life, positive things will start happening all around you.

We all have an internal dialogue and constant chatter inside our minds. This voice inside our heads is often critical and demanding, leaving us feeling never good enough. In Day 9, you’ll learn how to quiet the voice of your inner critic and access the deep, compassionate wisdom that’s within. While many high performing leaders believe we “need” this inner critic voice to push us to be successful, research shows the opposite is true. Cultivating a strong inner coach strengthens willpower and allows you to take greater risks in pursuit of your goals. You’ll leave today’s session able to shift from critic to coach on demand, and better equipped to create a culture of support and appreciation with your colleagues.

In this session, you’ll learn how to trust that the seeds you've planted will bear fruit. Once you've taken the steps to be successful, it's important to cultivate patience in the process as it unfolds. Today's guided meditation will support you in surrendering, allowing and trusting that your higher self can lead you forward. You’ll leave Day 10 filled with gratitude and a clear understanding of how to incorporate all the tools you’ve learned over this course into your personal and professional life to create meaningful and positive change for yourself and those around you.