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Watching the horrible pictures coming out of Israel, if you aren’t planning for the worst, you are In the wrong field.

Your hundreds of practical hours are in the bag and you finally got that long awaited paramedic certificate. Congrats!!

Now what? How do you take the practical skills you have and build some street knowledge? Here are three tips for you. To hit the ground running in your paramedic career.

1) Protocols: No way around it. Get in them and know them well. It will save you.

2) Poise: You are the one everyone looks to to have the answers and lead in the most chaotic of situations. Stay calm, speak with slow, calm, deliberate cadence and tone.

3) Mindset: If your mind isn’t right, you won’t succeed.

     -Meditation: Meditate every morning. You will perform better

     -Mindfulness: When doing a task, do only that task. Don’t multitask, your performance will suffer.

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     -Mental rehearsal: Run through your incident in your head, step-by-step. When the real thing comes, you will have a bunch of reps ready for the real thing.

      -Presence: Get that superhero pose locked up. The more you stand like a superhero the more you will project poise, confidence, and capability. It is scientifically proven. Learn More about Presence with Amy Cuddy’s Book: https://amzn.to/46n1cmw

These Three Steps will ensure you are successful in your new career and in the new world of trauma our society is seeing in the wake of the Hamas attacks. 

You did it! NREMT card is in hand and you are officially and EMT! Congrats! Now What? Things are about to get real. You are going to be running real calls with real and really sick people. And, you are going to be working with EMTs and Medics you may not even know. How can you set yourself up for success in your new career? Here are three steps for you!

1) Skills: Make sure to keep up with and practice your skills (Vitals, IV, lung sounds, pupils, monitor placement). When you can do this in your sleep, you will be invaluable to your team.

2) Personality with your partner: You know who else is in your shoes every day? Pilots. Airline Pilots rarely fly with the same co pilot. Each time they have to build immediate and life saving rapport. Take cues from airline pilots to do the same with your partner.

3) Mindset: If your mind isn’t right, you won’t succeed.

-Meditation: Meditate every morning. You will perform better -Mindfulness: When doing a task, do only that task. Don’t multitask, your performance will suffer.

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-Mental rehearsal: Run through your incident in your head, step-by-step. When the real thing comes, you will have a bunch of reps ready for the real thing.

-Presence: Get that superhero pose locked up. The more you stand like a superhero the more you will project poise, confidence, and capability. It is scientifically proven.

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These Three Steps will ensure you are successful in your new career.

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Your dream came true! After months of testing and applications, you finally got your letter and the Fire Recruit Academy starts soon! NOW WHAT! How do you prepare yourself to survive the grueling weeks ahead.

The recruit fire academy is, in many ways, more difficult than boot camp. How can you survive, and thrive? Here are your three steps:

1) Fitness: Make sure to get in the gym ASAP and start a tactical, high intensity interval training regimen.

2) Teamwork: Seal team training requires every member to carry the boat. If you don’t join with your peers you won’t make it. The Fire academy is the same. Coalesce around your peers and you will be much more successful.

3) Mindset: If your mind isn’t right, you won’t succeed.

     -Meditation: Meditate every morning. You will perform better

     -Mindfulness: When doing a task, do only that task. Don’t multitask, your performance will suffer. Want a gold standard tip to be Mindful? Get this free guide now: https://hyperacademy.mykajabi.com/10seconds

     -Mental rehearsal: Run through your evolution or test in your head, step-by-step. When the real thing comes, you will have a bunch of reps ready for the real thing.

     -Presence: Get that superhero pose locked up. The more you stand like a superhero the more you will project poise, confidence, and capability. It is scientifically proven. Learn More about Presence with Amy Cuddy’s Book: https://amzn.to/46n1cmw

These Three Steps will ensure you are successful in your academy experience. Thumbnail Photo by Colynary Media on Unsplash

Potty Training is one thing most parents never look forward to. Not only does it disrupt and already hectic household, it can bring event the most stoic parents to the brink. The reality, we all have to do it. If you are ready to rip the bandaid and Potty Train your child, these three tips will help!

1) Meditate: That is right! Meditation will significantly improve your ability to focus when you are at your wit’s end.

2) Mindfulness: Staying in the present moment with your kiddo will help you notice when they gotta go. It means the difference between a successful run to the toilet or cleaning the floor. Get this mindfulness Hack to change your potty training game here: https://hyperacademy.mykajabi.com/10seconds

3) Enjoy the moment: You will never get this time back. Enjoy the experience of potty training, you will never be closer to your kiddo.

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Are you new in the fire service? Wanting to Promote? It is key that you follow these three steps. In order to be successful on a fire scene, you must fall in one of these three operational camps: 1) Task focus: If you are a new firefighter, do this task and do it well. Focus on being the best at your single craft. If you are a new firefighter, you will naturally be task saturated in your assigned activity—fire attack, search, ventilation, etc. That is OK! Your role is critical to getting the fire under control or saving lives. 2)Tactical focus: If you are an acting officer, lieutenant or captain, you are the tactician. Take your assignment (Fire attack, search, ventilation) and make sure your task saturated firefighters have everything they need to be successful. More importantly, it is your job to ensure they stay safe—you have the wider aperture and can see the things they can’t. 3) Strategic focus: if you are an acting chief or chief officer, it is all on you to set the strategy for your tactical officers to bring the entire incident under control. Each piece of the fire puzzle must be in place to bring it under control. Stick with one, get really good at it and move up from there! Want more tips? Get your 10 second hack to perform better on the fire scene: https://hyperacademy.mykajabi.com/10seconds Photo by Connor Betts on Unsplash

Help your kids test better by guiding them with these three steps. Get your 10 second guide to perform better for your kiddo: https://hyperacademy.mykajabi.com/10seconds

Parent Problems, Crazy Kids, Sibling Rivalry, how to calm hysterical toddler, How do you calm down an inconsolable child? Look no further! Any parent has been there, it starts with the increase in volume in the house, the beginnings of an argument between siblings, or, heaven forbid, a toy gets broken. Once the Chaos starts in your house, deescalating can be a heck of a challenge! How can you calm that chaos with your kids? Try these THREE SIMPLE STEPS!

1)Meditate: Even 2 minutes a day of meditation will allow you to notice when the temperature is rising in your house and head the craziness off at the pass.

2) First, Just, Breathe: Science has proven that this simple mindfulness exercise will directly reduce your pulse, blood pressure and anxiety. It will allow you to be the calm one in the situation. Learn how to do this exercise for FREE! Go to: https://hyperacademy.mykajabi.com/10seconds

3)Calm, Poised, Control

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This one page, 3 step guide will give you the tools to immediately lower your anxiety, nervousness and stress when calling the emergency department with a trauma or a cor0. This FREE stress, anxiety and nervousness Guide will help! https://hyperacademy.mykajabi.com/10seconds

Being a Paramedic is no joke! We have a ton of things to do on every call: document, interview, assess, treat, calm family and other responders. And that is just for a bloody nose! When you are working a trauma or cardiac arrest, things ratchet up considerably. One of the many things we paramedics must do that often can become an afterthought it the call to the Emergency Department. It is easy to punt on this one. Admit it. You have had, or thought about having, your partner or dispatch make that call to the receiving facility for you. You and I both know that isn’t the best thing for the patient though. Providing a full appreciation of the patient status, vitals, and cause of their plight will dramatically improve the treatment they receive when they arrive to the emergency department. If all the ED hears is that they have a COR0 coming in, they will be behind the game when they find out it is a STEMI and THEN activate the Cath lab 20 minutes late. Similarly, if that COR0 is a result of a gunshot, the trauma surgeon will not be the wiser until the ED attending makes that call to get your patient into emergency surgery. Making that call is Important! But it is also challenging and can be s source of anxiety for many—especially when you have 1000 other things to attend to. Here is how to not only make that call, but ROCK that call and help save your patient’s life in the process. It just takes three steps: -Meditation -Mental Rehearsal -Do your First Just Breathe Exercise. Listen in to make that call like a PRO!

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You have finally ripped the bandaid and and signed up to test for that next stage in your fire career. Now comes the tough part. You feel good about the studying but how do you prepare for the day of the test. Promotion and fire test scenarios are purposely designed to induce stress, anxiety, and nervousness. It is designed to make you agitated, lose your composure and perform poorly. Even the most book smart candidate can fail in this situation. You aren’t every candidate though, you have the capability to rise above the stress and perform, to make #1 on that list. Here is how: Meditate each morning, Even 2 minutes will make a world of difference. Mental rehearsal: Mentally rehears every step of the scenario you may face. Each rehearsal is one rep that will prep you for the real thing. Presence: Stand like a superhero to exude superhero mentality. Mindfulness: Bring yourself to the present moment to set yourself for success. These four steps will give you the keys to making number 1 on the list. Good Luck! Thumbnail Photo by Hamza El-Falah on Unsplash

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Let’s face it, you have heard about meditation, the benefits, the possibilities, but is it really all it is cracked up to be? YES! But is it like any other endeavor you take on? (Golf, Skiing, Climbing, etc.) Do you need to invest time and a TON of money to dip your toe into meditation? NOPE! All you need is time (2 minutes), a quiet place, and a timer on your phone. Find out how to pull it off here.

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