The Power of Showing Up – Choose How You Show Up or Someone Else Will | Leadership Freak

Contemplate how you’re living and on who you hope to become. Be thoughtful and intentional on the values you want to be loyal to over the hours ahead of you. And how you wish to behave.

Day by day, pages tutor us. We learn to act in our own best interests. We stop being victims of circumstance. A choice at a time, we begin to craft a life that reflects our authentic values. Rather than sitting on the sidelines critiquing the game, we start to participate.

A third very important source of power that I think people sometimes underestimate is how you show up. Are you able to act and speak with power? Do you show up in a powerful fashion? Many writers write about what they call “executive presence.” I think how you show up and how you talk is a very important source of power.

Choose how you show up:

Spend 1 minute visualizing how you want to show up before your next meeting.

1. How does your best self begin the meeting?


2. How do you look? Think about body language and facial expression.


3. What do you do when someone tries to hijack the meeting?


4. What is your orientation toward people? Toward planning? Toward decision-making?


5. How do y

Simple choices:

Make simple choices that give direction to your leadership.

Give direction to your leadership by intentionally choosing words that reflect the priorities of your leadership.

Skillful leaders respect the power of words.

The right words at the right time become the difference between progress and frustration.

#1. Reject words that minimize