{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2F2e2ba39c-0f18-4dab-9456-ff842605f715","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"","title":"#57 5 Practices to Ground and Elevate Your Authenticity","description":"\u201cImagine if we could all show up in more, if not all, places in life fully ourselves - that we could fully open ourselves to learning, making mistakes, taking feedback, taking risks, and be being fully seen for our humanity and our potential without the fear of embarrassment or retribution.\u201d\r\nMove from socially defined to self-authored\r\nHave you ever felt that internal tug-of-war where you yearn to bring your whole self to a situation - but you hold yourself back? Perhaps you self-impose guidelines for how you \u201cshould\u201d speak and act in your organization?Endeavoring to live with authenticity often causes internal conflict. We suffer when we constantly try to become what (we assume) others expect of us. As a result, we have less energy to innovate, improve and positively impact stakeholders. We end up with a decreased sense of well-being and satisfaction with work and life.Ultimately, we want to live and lead in a way that exemplifies what\u2019s most important to us. To help you ground and elevate your authenticity, I share:-What it means to live and lead with authenticity and be \u201cself-authored\u201d-The cost incurred when we don\u2019t fully show up as ourselves-5 practices to help create more authenticity \r\nImage management hogs organizational resources\r\n[03:05] \"In an ordinary organization, most people are doing a second job no one is paying them for ... spending time and energy covering up their weaknesses, managing other people's impressions of them, showing themselves to their best advantage, playing politics, hiding their inadequacies, hiding their uncertainties, hiding their limitations. We regard this as the single biggest loss of resources that organizations suffer every day.\u201d \u2013 From An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization by Harvard Professors Bog Kegan and Lisa Lahey\r\nWhen we\u2019re inauthentic, we suffer\r\n[04:55] \u201cJesus said, \u2018If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.\u2019\u201d \u2013 From the Gospel of ThomasThe result of authenticity? Vitality\r\n[16:13] \u201cDon\u2019t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.\u201d - Howard Thurman, author, philosopher and theologian\".\u201cAn Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization\u201d by Harvard Professors Bob Kegan and Lisa Lahey: https://bookshop.org/a/16835/9781625278623Self-Authoring mind: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbescoachescouncil/2017/01/27/what-having-a-self-authoring-mind-means/?sh=51a3a1953b77The Gospel of Thomas: \r\nhttps://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/religion/story/thomas.htmlHoward Thurman:https://www.bu.edu/thurman/about-us/who-is-howard-thurman/StrengthsFinder; CliftonStrengths: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbescoachescouncil/2017/01/27/what-having-a-self-authoring-mind-means/?sh=51a3a1953b77Owning Your Value | Key Elements for Authenticity and Personal Power: www.rise-leaders.com/podcast Episode 21A Guide for Owning Your Value: https://mailchi.mp/d37649fa5f04/own-your-valueArticle: Authentic Leadership: https://www.wgu.edu/blog/what-is-authentic-leadership2004.html#closeRise Leaders YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKZAhRU1iLsXYwpvCECVregInsight Meditation App (search for body scans that work for you) https://insighttimer.com/ To discuss executive coaching, leadership development program design, and workshop facilitation, please visit:https://rise-leaders.com/contact-info/","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/85a48948-e94b-4d0b-91c5-0fb61eb66611/T9SW3PDB0EgJmDzs-mXSTBzm.jpeg"}