Exercise: “Alter Egos and Character Alarms”
Context
Tagline (Short Explanation of Value)
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Visual Diagram
Case Study (low-level, specific to this exercise)
[Optional] Warm-up Exercise (Prologue)
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Steps
Step 1: Identify difficult situations, challenging tasks or stressful situations you frequently face.
Step 2: Craft an Alter Ego specific to each situation.
Step 3: Ahead of stressful situations, utilize your Alter Ego by visualizing with it.
Step 4: Set reminders for specific times of day you want to use each specific alter ego.
Step 5: While actively in stressful situations, utilize your Alter Ego by giving yourself advice with it.
While there’s no perfect solution, we’ve found Tenets that satisfy the following criteria are often specific and actionable:
- Tenets are foundational base-level principles, beliefs, or values that influence your decisions / shape your behavior / define your emotions.
- Your Tenets exist in you regardless of whether you’re aware of or happy about them.
- Tenets describe a way of living life, rather than an end-state you want to achieve.
- Tenets are often limited to specific context(s) in your life.
- When writing Tenets, be explicit about how they should be embodied, and by who.
- When writing Tenets, state them as a sentence rather than a single word.