Self-Leadership
Wake Up. Step Up.
Show Up. Activate.
Show Up. Activate.
A four-part self-leadership reset.
Your framework
Four moves. One reset. Lead yourself on purpose.
Wake Up
Tell the truth
Step Up
Guard & lead from your heart
Show Up
Broadcast possibility
Activate
Weave these into your DNA
Work through the exercises
1
Wake Up
Quick Emotion Scan
Tell the truth about your emotional reality
Your emotions aren’t extra. They’re data. Tell the truth about your emotional reality.
Exercise
Choose one area of your life. Rate where you are honestly using the three states below, then name what’s driving it.
Work to do
Proceed with care
Emotionally ready
Area (Career / Purpose / Relationships / Integrity)
Your honest color
Because
e.g. Relationships / yellow / I’m avoiding a needed conversation.
2
Step Up
Heart Command Center
Trace what’s showing up in your leadership back to its source
Your output is telling on your inputs. Lead from a clean, courageous heart.
Exercise
Trace what’s showing up in your leadership back to its source. Work through all three fields.
Input — what you’re absorbing
Process — how you’re filtering it
Output — what’s showing up
e.g. pressure / comparison / short patience
3
Step Up
Heart Checkers
Identify your heart checker pattern
What’s your heart checker pattern? How you check in with yourself shapes how you lead everyone else.
Exercise
Read the four patterns below. Identify the one that most honestly describes how you’re checking in with yourself right now — then name why.
Avoider
Doesn’t want to feel
Suppressor
Waits until things crash
Visitor
Checks in when convenient
Leader
Checks in intentionally
My pattern right now
Because
What would change if I became a Leader in my own heart?
e.g. Visitor because I only check in when I’m rushing.
4
Show Up
Mind Broadcast Center
Name the show your mind has been streaming
Your mind is always broadcasting one of two channels. You have the remote. Choose what streams.
Exercise — Name That Show
If your thoughts were a TV series, what would the title be? Name the show that’s been running on your mental playlist. Be honest — no judgment.
Channel Defeat
Fear · Scarcity · Comparison · Shame · Overthinking · Playing small
Channel Triumph
Truth · Creativity · Confidence · Hope · Clarity · Resilience
The show that’s been streaming most
Channel (Defeat or Triumph)
What I’d rather be watching
e.g. “They’re Going to Find Out I’m Not Ready” / Defeat / “I’m Ready and Becoming More So Every Day”
5
Activate
Your Declaration
Write the declaration that puts it all into motion
This isn’t a to-do list. It’s a declaration of who you are becoming. When you put it into the air, you give it power.
Exercise
Write one simple but powerful declaration for each move. Don’t overthink it — write what comes first to your heart.
I will Wake Up by
I will Step Up by
I will Show Up by
This season I’m choosing
e.g. I will Wake Up by naming what I feel. I will Step Up by leading from honesty. I will Show Up by choosing clarity over comfort.
Your coaching
Power Break™ coaching questions
Come back to these whenever you feel off-track. Each question maps to one of the four moves.
Wake Up — What emotional truth am I avoiding right now?
Step Up — What is my heart absorbing, filtering, and showing up as in my leadership?
Show Up — What is my mind broadcasting — defeat or triumph? And why?
Activate — What am I choosing this season — on purpose?
Go deeper
Use this when worry, pressure, or mental overload is what your emotion scan revealed.
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