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Enhance Your Performance and Achieve Your Life Goals

Are you looking to improve a certain aspect of your life? Maybe you're a performer, athlete, or competitor. Or possibly you're a student, parent, or someone striving to improve their work performance. If so, you know the importance of being able to function optimally in challenging situations, such as:

• Presenting a speech
• Performing on stage
• Competing as an athlete
• Interviewing for a job
• Taking a test
• Being a parent
• Meeting challenges at work

Perhaps you can remember a time when you failed to achieve your goals because you were feeling stressed, overwhelmed, and lacking confidence. In contrast, you may also recall a time when you were feeling calm, confident, and focused. In result, you may have been functioning at a high level and achieving your goals.

Do you wonder what it would take to eliminate the obstacles to your success and start functioning optimally on a consistent basis?

I can help you to maximize your potential in the most important areas of your life.

My comprehensive approach focuses on three important areas:

1. Resolve the negative beliefs and past performance experiences that hinder your optimal functioning.
2. Neutralize any present day barriers that interfere with your optimal functioning.
3. Strengthen your talents and positive resources as a way to maximize your peak performance.

If you're like most people, when it comes time to perform or face a challenging situation, your confidence level is influenced by an accumulation of past experiences. Negative performance experiences can erode confidence around your ability to perform optimally. Examples of performance obstacles include difficult (i.e., embarrassing, humiliating, upsetting, overwhelming, or traumatizing) experiences when:

• Socializing in school or other group settings
• Engaging in competitions
• Giving a public speech
• Learning a new academic subject
• Starting a new job
• Taking a test
• Learning a new instrument or sport

Another key stumbling block to optimal performance relates to the beliefs that you hold about yourself. Negative thoughts about your capacity to achieve or perform at a high level get in the way of peak performance. Past negative performance experiences reinforce a negative mindset. Common negative beliefs include:

• I can't succeed
• I'm not good enough
• I'm unimportant
• I'm not deserving
• I'll eventually fail
• I can't trust myself
• I can't perform under pressure

Your beliefs determine whether you feel confident and focused or full of fear and self-doubt when you are performing.

Your body responds to your thoughts. Negative thoughts directly lead to fear, anxiety, and doubt. This is reflected in statements such as, "I got choked up" or "My heart was racing" and "I had butterflies in my stomach." Conversely, positive thoughts foster a sense of confidence, focus, and relaxation within your body.

So the first step toward optimal performance is to release the the obstacles (i.e., past unsucessful performance experiences, negative beliefs, and uncomfortable body sensations) that get in the way of your success. I use EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), which is a cutting edge stress reducing and performance enhancing technology, to help achieve this goal.

EMDR has successfully been used in the counseling and therapy field for over 20 years. EMDR is excellent for overcoming negative beliefs, challenging memories, and difficult feelings related to past performance experiences. Key benefits of EMDR are that it helps to create positive change rapidly and permanently.

The second step in performance optimization is to explore any other barriers to peak performance. Examples include:

• Overwhelming stress
• Low self-esteem and confidence
• Procrastination or time mismanagement
• Distractions or difficulties with concentration
• Impulsivity or lack of follow through
• Performance anxiety
• Fear of failure
• Negative self-talk

The third step is to optimize performance. Once obstacles to successful performance are released, your positive resources can be strengthened. This step can significantly support you to reach peak performance and achieve your life goals. Examples of positive resources include:

• Self-confidence
• Positive thinking
• Calmness
• Assertiveness and persistence
• Empowerment
• Focus and concentration
• Motivation and initiative

This is another area where EMDR is very powerful. By working with your brain and central nervous system, EMDR can effectively strengthen your inner resources, help you to function at a higher level, and lead to optimal performance.

By using EMDR, we can erase your old negative template that has led to ineffective performance and replace it with a new positive template of how you will look, feel, act, think, and behave when you are performing successfully.

If you're tired of mediocre performance and not living up to your potential, isn't it time to make a positive change? Why not start achieving your important life goals and fulfilling your potential?