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If your thinking ever feels off, overwhelmed, rushed, or hard to trust, this is where you reset.

The Awakening Performance Audio Lab is a set of short, guided resets you can use in real moments.
Not when everything is calm but when it’s not. When you feel triggered or your brain feels overloaded. Or when you can’t seem to shut your mind off for the evening.

Each reset is designed to help you slow down, clear the noise, and take one deliberate step forward.

Start with the moment you’re in.
Then use these whenever your thinking starts to slip.

This is how you move from reactive to clear, and from pressure to control.

If everything feels urgent right now, it’s not because everything is urgent.

It’s because you’re trying to process too many decisions at once.

Messages are coming in, people are waiting and your attention is getting pulled in every direction.

That’s where the pressure comes from. It's not the work, it's the volume of decisions.

This reset introduces the One Decision Rule.

Instead of reacting to everything, you focus on the one decision that actually moves things forward and give it your full attention.

No switching. No checking your phone or email. Just one clear move.

Use this when everything feels important and you don’t know where to start.

This is how you move from scattered to focused, and from reacting to leading one decision at a time.

About to close your laptop but your mind is still going?

Before you move on, take 2 minutes to reset your thinking.

This short guided reflection helps you pause, slow down, and notice where you were clear and where you reacted.

You’ll use simple breath and one powerful question to build awareness without judgment, so you can show up more focused and intentional tomorrow.

Use this at the end of your workday before you switch modes.

This is how you move from autopilot to awareness, and from reaction to better decisions.

Before your inbox, your calendar, or everyone else’s priorities take over, pause here.

This 2-minute reset helps you identify the one thing that actually needs your clearest thinking today.

You’ll use simple breath and a focused prompt to anchor your attention before the noise starts.

This isn’t about calming down. It’s about deciding what matters first.

Use this at the start of your day to lead with intention instead of reacting to everything around you.

This is how you move from scattered to focused, and from busy to deliberate.

Each month, in a series we call "Fitness Friday", we'll talk about performance in real life by covering topics to manage your energy, your reactions, and the moments outside of work that directly impact how you think, decide, and lead.

Because your performance at work is shaped long before you log in.

You might be wondering why we included dog training in this series. Well, a well trained dog is impacted by you, your energy, your reactions, and how you respond under pressure. Your clarity doesn't just show up at work, it shows up everywhere.

Your dog isn’t just reacting. They’re reflecting you.

In this session, Lisa Larson, Rasha Proctor, and dog trainer Joshua Quinn break down what really happens when your dog jumps, barks, or ignores you at the worst possible moment. It’s not just good or bad training. It’s a clarity and performance issue.

When your dog reacts, your nervous system reacts. When you get frustrated, they escalate. What looks like bad behavior is often a feedback loop between your energy, your attention, and your ability to respond under pressure.

This episode connects three things most people never link:
• Dog behavior
• Your emotional reactivity
• Your decision-making under pressure

You’ll learn:
• Why your dog mirrors your stress and how that impacts their behavior
• How to interrupt reactive patterns in real time without escalating the situation
• The difference between distraction and trigger, and why that matters for both you and your dog
• Simple reinforcement techniques that build focus, not chaos
• A guided reset to regulate your energy when you feel overwhelmed

This isn’t learning how to control your dog. It’s learning how to master your response.

The same skills that calm your dog, is the one that improves your leadership, your communication, and your clarity in high-pressure moments.

If you can stay grounded when your environment is unpredictable, you don’t just train your dog better. You perform better.

Follow for more resets that help you think clearly, lead effectively, and stay in control when it matters most.

You didn’t lose your top performer overnight.

You lost them slowly. Through accumulated pressure, constant decisions, and no time to reset.

In this episode, we break down the Burnout Tax. The hidden, six-figure cost organizations pay every time a high performer quietly disengages and walks out the door.

We don't discuss workload We talk about about cognitive overload.

When your best people are forced to operate in an environment with:

• Too many decisions

• Constant urgency

• Unclear priorities

• No recovery

Their performance drops before they ever resign. By the time they leave, the damage is already done.

We’ll cover:

• The early signals of decision fatigue most leaders miss

• Why high performers burn out differently

• The real cost of losing one key employee (it’s higher than you think)

• How to identify the decision environment breakdown inside your team

• And how to shift from burnout to performance using the ROI of clarity

This isn’t about retention. It’s learning to restore your team’s ability to think, decide, and perform under pressure.

If you’re leading a team, scaling a business, or noticing slower decisions and rising pressure, this episode will show you exactly where the risk is building and what to do about it.

Listen now. And start reducing the burnout tax before your next top performer walks.

You got triggered. You reacted. And now you’re sitting with regret.

That wasn’t a lack of discipline. That was your nervous system doing its job.

When stress hits, your body shifts into survival mode. Your heart rate rises, your breathing shortens, and your thinking narrows. Effective for danger. Costly for decisions, conversations, and performance.

In this guided 2-minute reset, you’ll learn how to use your breath, specifically a longer exhale, to activate your body’s built-in off switch and return to clear, controlled thinking.

This is a practical reset you can use anywhere. Before a tough conversation. Before a big decision. In the middle of a high-pressure moment.

Your breath doesn’t just keep you alive. It keeps you clear.

Done working but your brain won’t stop?

That’s not just stress. It’s unfinished decisions still running in the background.

This 5-minute reset helps you close mental loops, clear cognitive clutter, and finally let your mind rest.

You’ll use simple breath and a quick offload process to get decisions out of your head and into a clear next step, without needing to solve everything tonight.

Use this at the end of your day when you can’t switch off or keep replaying what’s left undone.

This is how you move from mental noise to calm, and from carrying everything to letting it go.

About to step into something important?

You don’t need more information. You need clarity.

This 2-minute reset helps you slow down, steady your thinking, and focus on what actually matters before you decide.

You’ll use simple breath and three key questions to anchor your thinking, cut through noise, and show up with confidence.

Use this before a meeting, decision, or high-stakes moment.

This is how you move from reactive to decisive, and from pressure to clear leadership.

Slack pings. Emails stack. Someone says “quick question.”

And suddenly you feel the pull to respond right now.

That urgency isn’t always real. It’s a nervous system reaction, and it can push you into fast, reactive decisions that cost you later.

This 2-minute reset helps you pause, slow your thinking, and respond with clarity instead of impulse.

You’ll use simple breath and a few key questions to filter what actually matters before you reply.

Use this before responding to messages, requests, or anything that feels urgent but unclear.

This is how you move from reactive to deliberate, and from other people’s urgency to your own control.