Welcome to Step 3 of my Presenting Methodology: EMBODY
When Presenting, our raw power comes from Embodiment.
The feeling of Authority, a sense of Bone-Deep Belief and our own personal vibration now attached to our words, giving them more weight for our audience.
Let’s recap:
Step 1: ‘No Change Of State’, we learn how to be ourselves on-camera and on-stage effectively, no change of state so who we are off-camera is who we are on-camera.
Step 2, dropping from ‘Head to Heart’. This step, when done well, gives you the time and space to articulate the feeling around your chosen topic. This enables us to tap into our greatness, so our words are touched by our essence and have our own personal vibration attached to them.
Now we move into Step 3: EMBODY.
When we embody what it is that we do, remember there has to be a congruency between who we are on-stage / camera and off-stage / camera. So, when I talk about Embody, it’s something I incorporate into my every day, it becomes part of the World-Class Andrew, not just World-Class Presenting Andrew. Off and On Stage and Camera is the same.
When we truly Embody our words, we don’t then need to come out on stage or camera and say, “Ok, now I’m going to embody what it is that I do,” so the audience believes me. It becomes a Bone-Deep characteristic of ourselves.
But this is what happens when we embody our words and what we do, we begin owning the words that we’ve discovered, decided to choose and give life to. We own those words completely; they are ours.
To embody what it is that we do also means removing words like ‘kind of,’ ‘it’s a little bit like this’, for example. When I hear people in my workshops, retreats, on their lives, for example, and they say, “I ‘kind of’ empower women,” or, “I ‘kind of’ empower men,” how’s that empowering?
You either do, or you don’t, which one is it? And if the answer here is, “I actually don’t know how to do this yet fully”, then you better learn how! This is your job, and there is nothing worse than listening to someone speak whose words are hollow.
You do what you do; you don’t ‘kind of’ do what you do.
Own what it is that you do, own who you are, own the words that you choose to bring life to.
To EMBODY is to remove those uncertain words, and when you start to own those words, what I find is this feeling starts to sit in my body differently; they’re coming from my heart, from greatness.
It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy that the more that I embody my words when I’m talking, the more that I can feel it Bone-Deep in my body. There’s a sense of belief, not just to my audience, but more importantly, me.
When I believe in what I’m saying, when I believe in what I do, what I teach, and I believe I’m at the vanguard of what I do; my audience trust me, and I trust me too.
Now, I wouldn’t be taking a whole lot of people through this process if I didn’t trust myself, right? Because you would feel that. I own this process. I own it because it comes from the right place.
The more you EMBODY, the more it becomes you when you repeat it dozens, even hundreds of times. It effectively becomes us!
Step 3: EMBODY will help you stand out from that saturated level of mediocrity. And I say this because I love that expression. Yes, there is a saturated level of mediocrity of Speakers, just like there are Actors and TV Presenters and in every other craft or profession.
But I don’t teach people who are happy to play in that space. Yes, ‘The Rite of Passage’ suggests that we have to move through it, but how fast we move through it is up to you, and I know after 26 years we can speed this process up.
You can take luck out of the equation by becoming a great Presenter in a shorter amount of time when you remove the masks, when you stop trying to overthink this technical stuff, and use this Methodology Step 1, 2, and 3.
Hit reply and tell me one thing you can EMBODY this week?
Andrew
