023 - What Bo Jackson Taught Me About Creating a New Road Secret Identity

Welcome to the ERW podcast, I’m your host, BpB, fellow RW, husband of one, father of five, someone who struggled for years with over-working on the road that lead to mental and physical burnout, 40 pounds overweight and in the worst shape of my life, and disconnected with my family, sad to say. 

Somehow I needed to figure out my Bo Jackson transformation when I hit the road. I wanted to become Elite Road Warrior Bryan but something had to change in more than just my willpower and attempted behavioral change. I needed what Todd Herman wrote on, an Alter Ego.

Now, I want you to stick with me because this Alter Ego jargon may seem a little weird but you’d be shocked at the thousands of athletes, performers, business people who leverage the power of an Alter Ego.

It may sound like the following:

• Things are just fine as they are
• The road is too hard to change
• I’ve been doing it the same way for too long
• I’ve tried to change but keep coming back to the way things used to be

Your Alter Ego is the key to unlocking your Heroic Self.
Your Heroic Self embodies the three key focus areas of an ERW:

1. Your Work
2. Your Health
3. Your Home Life

An Alter Ego allows you to embody your Heroic Self whenever you need to perform at a higher level and I wanted to perform at the highest level with not only my work but also my health and home life and knew I had this gear in me that needed to be unlocked to come out and come out consistently.

Field of Play - this is your place of performance. For an athlete, it’s the field or the court. For a musician, it’s the stage, For a business traveler, this is “the road."

2nd - your Moment of Impact - also called “your moment of truth” - in sports, it’s the big shot / in sales, it’s your close / in a presentation, it’s your conclusion / 

And here’s the point: Your Field of Play and your Moment of Impact is when you need your Heroic Self or your Alter Ego to show up.

So, What did Bo Jackson Taught Me About Creating a New Road Identity?

How do you create an Alter Ego Effect for the road?

We’ll find out after this short break!

 have to want to create an Alter Ego and embody it for all it’s worth for it to work. Otherwise, you’ll find an excuse NOT to make it work.

So, what exactly did Bo Jackson Teach Me About Creating a New Road Identity?

There are Three Transformational Ways to Change Your Road Identity

I’ll give you the three then I’ll be vulnerable and share with you my Alter Ego but you have to keep it between us girls - deal?

Decide the type of person you want to be

• Someone you know or admire
• TV personality or athlete or CEO or musician or entrepreneur or historical figure or super hero

Define their “superpowers” or actions that sets them apart

• Strong / Confident / Powerful / Calm / Smooth / Determined / Resilient / Overcomer / Brave / Consistent
• Find a Totem or Artifact - why? It activates your Alter Ego or reminds you the Alter Ego needs to show back up
• Something you wear
• Something you carry with you
• Something connected to the Field of Play

Examples:

MLK

Winston Churchill

Athletes - certain shirt / chain

Key Side Notes: 

1. the totem or artifact must symbolize something to you - it must have meaning and really work for you.
2. don’t wear, carry, or use it all the time (it’s meant to be intentional) and don’t give it away!n (Churchill only wore his hat in public / athletes wear “that shirt” only during the game)
3. Choose something you’ll enjoy wearing or carry with you

My Personal Alter Ego:
I want to be an Elite Road Warrior who has the Alter Ego of Jason Bourne

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