As you prep for the FLX leadership conference coming this November, here are a few tools to help you activate this year’s themes of Resilience, Resistance and Radical Connection. Make your investment count by living out immediate change in the areas of your life you long for most. It’s easy to fall back into the same patterns after an inspiring talk. The same happens when you set a goal, then weeks or months later, you find yourself thinking and behaving how you did before. I want to help you awaken what you learn long after the conference is over. Here’s how:
Tip #1: Prime Your Mind
Begin one week prior and set that date on your calendar. Every single day, spend the amount of time you wish towards making a claim for your life. The 10 minutes right before you go to bed and right when you wake up are optimal. Your brain is in its most suggestible and highest learning state during these times. As you go through your week, imagine what your life will be like with the change you desire already in your life.
Tip #2: Release and Receive
Trust that you have done the good work prior to set your mind up to receiving. Release any preconceived notions of what you hope to hear. You have made a claim for your life and you will receive exactly what you need. The day of the conference, check in with yourself. Close your eyes and imagine your mind as an open vessel. Place your hand on your heart and speak into it, “I trust my heart will receive what it needs most and it shall come through loud and clear.”
Tip #3: Take Notes
Bring with you a beautiful notebook just for this conference and the journey after you are about to embark on. Every single statement that resonates with your heartspace, jot those down. You are a literal funnel through which these ideas will come pouring in. Writing is a direct connection to the subconscious mind, the emotional part of the brain where your beliefs, associations and how you feel about things, impact most of your choices.
Tip #4: Build Resilience
With change, resilience is necessary. Your brain is designed to keep you comfortable. Any time you feel you are falling back to an unhelpful pattern, think the word RESILIENCE and make an opposite move instead. Studies show that it is when you are at the peak of your highest resilience and you push through it anyway, that your brain makes the biggest structural change. You are training your brain to accept your new way of being. Just like exercise, building muscle takes repetition and pushing your limits. Your brain is the most important organ to workout.
Tip #5: Activate Resistance
Think of RESISTANCE as taking action against the roadblocks you came to the conference wanting to overcome. This means refusing to comply with the norm of what you have been doing and activating the new norm you create. You will have big ideas. Be sure to chunk them down to executable steps. List under your ideas what does this look like, what steps must I take, how do I live this throughout my life, what do I need to bring in, what must I let go of, etc. The more detail, the more your brain will organize itself to highlight these opportunities.
Tip #6: Experience Radical Connection
Be not the norm! Commit to bold moves during and after the conference. If you are an introvert, be open to initiating connection with other women. If you are an extrovert, listen for ideas that help you reflect inward, while silencing your active mind that does not allow you to remain present to receive. Bold does not mean big. It means a step that moves you closer to your desired outcome while also stretching your comfort zone just a bit. After the conference, reach out to those you connected with and others who you have felt a prompting to write a letter to.
When you welcome the unexpected, the unexpected surprises you in magical ways!
Jessica I. Morales, C.Ht. lives in Los Angeles, CA. She is a Mind Strategist, Speaker/Writer on Growth Mindset and Positive Techniques for Joyful Living, an Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) Master Practitioner, Instructor at the Screen Actors Guild Conservatory and Corporate Coach on positive workplace cultures. www.beyoubloom.com / IG @beyoubloom
