![]() When you personalize your Alter Ego with a sense of creativity and playfulness you optimize your ability to achieve Consistent Elite Performance. One of our most powerful tools as humans is our imagination. This is where the magic of the process comes out. The ideal mindset always has a little combination of both Fire and Ice. Versus a red side that represents being competitive, confident and relentless – the fire. We use the word balance to help prevent you from over-indexing too much on any one trait or moment of impact.įor example, the diagram below has a blue side that represents being cool, calm and collected – the ice. So the diagram below is not meant to be used as a cookie cutter way to create your Alter Ego, but rather to help you quickly identify key traits and create a ‘balanced’ performance identity that works for you. ![]() To be clear, no two Alter Egos or performance identities will be the same.Įach person will have a different variation in the moments of impact.Īnd even when two people might have the same moment of impact, how they want to show up in that moment will be unique. One of the more thorough and traditional ways is to break down the fundamental thoughts, feelings, focus, actions and results for both your heroic self and worst self in each moment of impact.īy flushing this all out you are creating a stark contrast from which you can identify the unique traits you don’t want versus the ones you do want in each moment of impact.īecause we have done this exercise so many times we have been able to create a diagram representing the general make up for most high performance identities. There are numerous ways to go about doing this. ![]() Now that you have your three to five key moments of impact identified, you want to create contrasting traits for each of those key moments. Note, this strategy can be transformative for other areas of life as well – whether you are a surgeon, a business executive, student, or parent – follow these steps to activate your best self in any area of life. The final stretch – relentlessly race your race.Preparing for the finish – commit to your plan.The start of the race – attack your race.Playing defense – staying calm yet ferociousįor racing sports like swimming, biking, and running – the key moments are often broken up into their race plan, for example:.Creating offense – being creative yet having a killer instinct.Dealing with adversity – bouncing back and staying resilient.Transitioning to offense – getting into attack mode.Taking the big shot – being confident and letting it happen.Before the game – channeling your nerves.You should pick 3 to 5 moments that have the biggest impact on your performance.Įxamples of common key moments of impact for athletes include: Identifying your key moments of impact is crucial to making your Alter Ego simple yet powerful. The next important part of developing this contrast is to identify the field of play and specifically the moments of impact. This makes your Alter Ego more about letting go of the limiting beliefs and the narratives holding you back so you can allow yourself to be the true version of yourself. This is an important frame when doing this exercise. Who is the true-self vs the false-self? The reality is that Superman is always there and sometimes he ‘holds himself back’ to fit in or play small. Todd uses Superman and Clark Kent as an example. However, the reality is you have the heroic traits already within you and that is the true you. This is very limiting because you are seeing yourself and the real you as less than, and you need to add traits and become something you are not. My favorite way that Todd Herman explains these contrasting narratives is that the Heroic Self is the true-self while the Shadow Self is the false-self.Ī common misconception is your shadow self is the real you and you need to become your heroic self. This is the self that embraces the moment, that is confident in their capabilities, and attacks the game. ![]() On the other side you have your heroic self, your best self, or your courageous self. This is the self that holds you back, that plays safe, and that worries about what other people think. On one side you have your worst self, your shadow self, or your comfortable self. Think of the Alter Ego strategy as creating two contrasting narratives. ![]()
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