Your Leader State is always inside you, but can be hidden. Doing Mirror Work with your Project Overview and your Leader Profile gives you instant access to your Leader State to create powerful alignment with yourself and others.
Why do we avoid doing Mirror Work?
We are our own biggest critics! Even without realizing it, secretly we know that if we face ourselves in the mirror, we are going to see some things about ourselves that we really don’t want to see!
While we may try to hide our inner self-disapproval from ourselves and others, those we speak with intuitively see the disconnection between how we feel about ourselves and what we say.
To create strong relationships with others, the first step is to create a strong relationship with ourselves. It means learning how to love yourself, warts and all. Mirror Work is one of the fastest and easiest ways to do this.
Ok, How do I do it?
- Print out your two documents, your Project Overview and your Leader Profile.
- Stand in front a mirror — not more than two feet away, or 0.6 meters.
- Gaze deeply into your own eyes. This alone is a powerful technique for accessing your Leader State.
- Finally, read your documents to the person in the mirror. Look at the page, gather a sentence or two, and speak the words directly into your own eyes.
From this action, you will derive some important benefits:
- You may find parts of your documents that simply need some editing to be more easily understood by others.
- You may discover that you feel uncomfortable saying some of the things you wrote. Don’t quit. This is where the real gold is buried.
- If you start having negative thoughts or feelings, just say “I love you” to them over and over. You will find that these unresolved emotions transform into a very pleasant state — that is your Leader State.
- Resolving any discomfort with yourself that you discover this way will make you far more powerful and confident sharing your dreams, visions, and goals with others.
At first, don’t spend more than ten minutes with each document. If you struggle with this exercise, feel free to book a free call with me to discuss becoming one of my students so that you can quickly transform any negative thoughts or feelings about yourself or your ability to lead that might arise from this exercise or any other situation.