Pre-event priming

Getting Dialed In.

Preparedness does not mean you can control the outcome. It means you can control your alignment, your connection, your coordination and your execution in this present moment.

You do not guess. You write out the details of your plan. You do not just rehearse what you will say or do — you rehearse how your whole system will show up.

This routine should be practised like any other skill. It is like hygiene: it should be done daily. And it is your routine — you own it and you adjust it until it gets you your best performance.

Consistency equals consistency. You can only control your focus, your effort and your execution. You cannot control the outcome.

Step one

Define the moment

Before the event, write down what it actually is. Your perception defines the pressure — if it feels big to you, it deserves preparation.

  • What is the task or event?
  • Is it daily and mundane, or big in your mind?
  • Why does it matter for your growth, your flow, your future?
  • What is the future you are fighting for? What is your purpose?
  • Why do you love this? Why did you start in the first place?
Step two

Name the Weak Angle story

Be as honest as you can. Putting the Weak Angle story on paper pulls it out of your nervous system and onto the page. Now you can train it instead of being ruled by it.

  • What are you afraid will happen?
  • What are you worried others will think?
  • Where do you feel that fear in your body?
Step three

Anchor in gratitude

This is where the Flowcus and gratitude work comes alive. It is about controlling your mind and body instead of them controlling you.

You cannot have anxiety and gratitude at the same time.

Write three things you are deeply grateful for right now, and remember them — they are for execution, not decoration. Then write why this event is a gift: a chance to grow and enter flow, a chance to acquire skill and become a better version of yourself.

When anxiety hits, you are usually thinking too much about what you do not have and what you cannot control, and not enough about what you do have and what you can. You are the type of person who gives their best effort, and that is the most anyone can do.

Your gratitude anchor is the fastest way back into the Strong Angle. I am grateful for this opportunity. I am grateful for the people I serve. I am grateful I get to practise my craft today.

Step four

Build the routine

Now write your actual dial-in routine for this moment. Keep it simple, repeatable and physical. This is your kinetic chain for confidence.

Social blackout

  • No social media
  • Minimal to no personal contact

Five-minute warning

  • Focus on breathing — nasal in, pursed lips out, 4:8 inhale to exhale
  • Your mantra, or the words that put you in the performance zone
  • The Serenity Prayer or your equivalent — it summarises almost everything you need in order to perform

Move your body

  • A Strong Angle warm-up or a short brisk walk
  • Breathing techniques
  • Postural alignment and coordination drills to activate the nervous system

Prime your mind

  • A single phrase, a short visualisation, a Strong Angle reminder
  • I am prepared. It is time to execute. I am someone who walks the walk.

Step into it

  • What are the first words you will say? The first action you will take?
  • Do not guess here. Be prepared. Know every detail.
  • What will you do if you get anxious, lose focus, or something does not go your way? Be prepared for that too.
Step five

Rehearse and condition

You do not write it once and hope. Every small rehearsal is a vote for a new identity: I am someone who prepares. I am someone who walks the walk.

The more conditioned your routine becomes, the more automatic your Strong Angle response is when pressure shows up.

The Strong Angle Creed

I am grateful for my God-given gifts and that I get to do the things I love. I am thankful for my competitors and my chances to compete. On this awesome adventure, I walk the walk.

I am a savage competitor, a gritty gamer. I am here to prove I am not just a talker. I walk the walk.

All I do is get ready. I am dialed in. I have worked too hard to surrender. I will find a way. I walk the walk.

I will give it my all and I know that is truly the most I can do. Until the final whistle I will be relentlessly engaged, aggressive and tough. Honorably, I walk the walk.

I am aligned with the future I am fighting for. I am in the Strong Angle and I walk the walk.

Timing it

15–30 minutes prior — dynamic warm-up and activation

In most cases five minutes of the right routine is enough. Adjust clothing and layers to warm up faster, and wear what lets you perform at your best.

10–15 minutes prior — in the hole

5 minutes prior — on deck

During

After

For leaders

A simple dial-in checklist before a session, a meeting, a hard conversation, or any moment that matters.

  1. Align your posture and breathing. Plant your feet and stack your body as if you are about to move athletically, not collapse into the chair. Three slow breaths, exhaling a little longer than you inhale. Drop the shoulders and unclench the jaw while staying tall.
  2. Connect to purpose and people. Why does this next thing matter? If others are involved — what do they need from the best version of me right now?
  3. Coordinate your timing and intention. Walk through the first sixty to ninety seconds: how you enter, your first sentence, and the energy you want them to feel from you.

You have just aligned your body, connected to purpose and coordinated your next moves. You have shifted from drifting into a moment to deliberately entering it. You are not waiting to see if you have energy — you are telling your system that you are getting dialed in now.

The daily energy check

Less than a minute, at least once in the morning and once in the afternoon.

  1. In one word, how would I describe my energy right now?
  2. What story am I telling myself about what that means?
  3. What is one dial-in move I can make in the next sixty seconds?

When you manage your energy and self-image on purpose, you stop being a passenger in your own story and start driving it.

Your Dialed In document.

Everything above, as a document you actually fill in — one for each moment you are preparing for. It saves as you type.

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Where this lives

Put it in your Flowcus.

Everything on this page belongs in your Flowcus document, where it saves as you type and you can read it every morning.

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