Self-Awareness and Mindfulness


Leaders are expected to exercise greater awareness, critical and creative thinking, and ultimately freedom of action and response-ability than regular employees. The higher the position of leadership, the more these traits are demanded.

But how can leaders cultivate and strengthen these abilities?  And how do we eliminate behavior patterns that inhibit them?

The answer, as psychologists are increasingly finding, is mindfulness.

Being Mindful in the Heart of the Moment


Mindfulness allows leaders to:

  • increase their awareness of the present moment,
  • stay emotionally open to input and feedback from their people,
  • overcome reactive habits, and
  • gain the meta-cognitive skills required to entertain a greater degree of options for any given situation.

If you don't believe that mindfulness provides these benefits, simply picture the last time you were terrified or infuriated or distressed. How clear was your thinking? How creatively inspired? How open to feedback?

No one would hope to be mentally agile and empowered under those conditions. And that's the point: those emotions tend to take us out of the present moment and limit our critical and creative thought.

So unless a leader makes a conscious effort to stay mindful, these negative emotions squash one's abilities to operate from a position of choice and power.

And what we have found through our research is that exceptional -- aka fearless -- leaders routinely make that conscious effort to stay mindful in difficult situations.

Fearless leaders stay mindful so that they can operate from their highest consciousness when it matters most, rather than reacting to negative circumstances and emotions such as fear (especially the fear of failure).

Grace Under Pressure Can Be LEARNED


Indeed, the ability to routinely operate from higher consciousness under stress -- grace under pressure -- is one of the most noted and obvious traits of a fearless leader.

And the good news is that mindfulness is a skill that can be learned and strengthened with the right exercises, including the ability to retain mindfulness within high-stress moments and situations.

Increase Your Ability to Operate From Your Highest Consciousness With The Fearless Leaders Group


It's one thing when colleagues and team-mates comment on a leader's improvement in Emotional Intelligence and Mindfulness -- and that happens pretty routinely -- but it's entirely another thing when a leader's spouse or kids do it!

Then you really know a substantial change has taken hold.

And that's one of the many milestones that happen to leaders when they get coaching from The Fearless Leaders Group.

And now you can have the same experience. Review our Fearless Focus Engagement options and contact us directly to get started.

Or learn more about what operating from your highest consciousness looks like for your natural leadership style.

Different leaders express their highest consciousness differently, so knowing what type of fearless leader you are can help you more consistently stay in that higher consciousness.

And that makes taking our short, interactive quiz a no-brainer.

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