What even is 'Showing Up?'

I don't know about you, but we hear a lot of people talking about 'Showing Up'

The thing is what does it actually mean? In fact, some people even go so far as to say that Showing Up is the start of making great things happen…

Yet Showing Up is not always easy, in fact we definitely agree with Brene Brown who says,

"Sometimes the bravest and most important thing you can do is just show up"

One minute we are mid pandemic, wondering whether we should or shouldn’t be wearing masks, then we are confronted by the tragic situation in the Ukraine, then we have the financial impact of all this on prices for essential items such as fuel and food

Yup, for a lot of us, our current reality is tough

Not surprising then, that some of us are floundering. How to look forwards when we don't know what forwards looks like anymore? Hard to hope, when everything around us is in havoc

I don't know if you have noticed though, some of us are – dare we say it - flourishing. Some of us are deftly pivoting our businesses, learning new skills and rising to the challenges. What makes them able to rise up, keep going, keep smiling, when so many of us are slumping, exhausted at the end of each day, into our sofas?

Here is our hope. These are the people who are Showing Up  

Showing up is about allowing ourselves to be seen. It is about revealing ourselves. It is about revealing our true characters, our true natures. This is what we all really need right now. We need people who have the strength to Show Up to not be batted back by insecurities about our futures, by imposter syndrome, by the fear of not being enough when faced with such great challenges and demand for change. People who can put the best of themselves forward, bringing us all hope, hope for our businesses, our communities, our families and our world

I wonder, if you could become one of those people? 

Having the skills and the belief system to Show Up, against the odds, is actually something we are all capable of. We don't have to have an incredible IQ, we don't have to be a 'typical Alpha,' we don’t have to have extraordinary willpower or amazing self-control - we can all do this

The first step, is to understand the beliefs, behaviours and mind-sets we need to adopt to help us Show Up. These are the things which people who Show Up, think, feel and do to make things happen, even during tough times.

The second step, is to understand the things which are stopping us from Showing Up and the third step, is to note down a simple plan to help us make a step of progress each day towards Showing Up. We do this step, by making small steps of progress, each step a step forwards

Completing these three steps means we have created our own unique navigational system to guide us. It becomes possible for all of us to Show Up, even when times are tough

To help people learn how to Show Up, we have created an Upskill, (our name for a course/masterclass), which can help you Show Up. Showing Up includes online videos, 121 Mentoring, bespoke Journals, private podcasts and purposeful self-reflection exercises designed to help you unlock your ability to Show Up, even when the going gets tough - you can learn more about it here

We share sparky deep insights, simple practical frameworks and handy transformational tools, including tools for purposeful self-reflection, usually only accessible for high performance executives. Making these available for everybody to use in the real world

So you can quite literally, be brave, do the most important thing and Show Up 

Showing Up is not easy, but it is worth it. We all have just one life, so let's make sure we Show Up, face the challenges which come our way head on, roll with the punches and enjoy, even relish the ride!

Discover more about Showing Up here