How To Be Your Own Hero

Step 1: Choose your Hero

First you must choose a personal hero; real, fictional, dead or alive. What are the qualities you look up to in this person?

If you don't have a hero you can create one based on the qualities you most admire in people or would love to possess. Such as being confident, strong, assertive or authoritative

Step 2: Emulating your hero.

To begin with simply consider the qualities of this hero and act some out in private. Get into their mindset by assuming their posture, using their expressions and striding in the same strong manner.

Step 3: Re-enacting the past.

Consider some situations at work you think should have gone better. This may have been during a meeting or presentation, whilst on the phone or just chatting with your boss during lunch.

Next play out these scenes as your hero. How would they have acted in the same situations? What would they have said or done?

Step 4: Trying it for real.

Now you have to take on some of these characteristics. It may feel strange as you are not used to behaving this way.

See how it feels to use these qualities in reality. Ask yourself whether you were just acting as your hero or if you were uncovering hidden attributes to your own personality. You will probably discover that you are not just pretending to be your hero – but that you are, in fact, your own hero.