This content was created by Alexandra Niel. This content was uploaded by Alexandra Niel. This is a YouTube video titled "How to show up as your best self" (created/posted December 6, 2021). It features a single speaker delivering a short motivational/coaching message about how high performers 'respond' rather than 'react' to events. The speaker quotes Maya Angelou, contrasts reaction vs. response, offers a practical challenge to pause, breathe, and choose an effective, responsible way to act, and signs off promising to return midweek. The format and tone match a brief vlog or coaching/business leadership tip.
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Good morning, my peeps. Happy Monday. So let me ask you a question. Do you know what sets high performers apart from other people? Well, it's this. It is that they show up not from what their strengths are, but they show up from how they need to behave in the particular situation that they're in. So let me just give you a quick quote from Maya Angelou to help to frame that a little bit, and that is that you may not control all of the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. And the way I read that is that when something happens to us, we have two choices: we can react or we can respond. When we react, we go into our reptilian brain and we do something automatically based on the emotions and feelings that we're feeling in that particular moment. The difference with high performers is that they actually respond. So they take a step back, they take a breath, and they think, what is the best way for me to answer this given situation? How do I need to show up as my best self, not just for me but for the people around me? Because how many times have we been in a situation where somebody does something or says something that makes us aggravated. And what do you do? You, you know, you get that feeling in your stomach and you, you know, you reply and you react. You say something that sometimes you regret saying later, or you say something that just ups the ante so the other person feels they have to defend themselves. And then, you know, you keep going, going, and going, and next thing you know, you've got a full-blown argument over something that probably could have been resolved very, very simply just by being in the moment and by not letting, like Maya says, not letting the event reduce us to that lowest common denominator. So I'd like to issue a challenge to you this week, and that is this: when something happens that throws you off track, don't, you know, react like, you know, somebody give you a kick in, in the butt. Just take a step back, take a breath, Think about what is the most effective, what is the most efficient, and the most responsible way to respond to the situation, and see if that changes things for you. So that's what I wanted to share with you so that you have a bit of a, a tactic to not get caught up in the emotion of what happens from day to day, and I hope it serves you, and I will talk to you on Wednesday. Have a great day. Bye!
