Role Models

Sure, it's a funny movie if you happened to catch it.  But aside from being the societal prescriptive for what ails our youth, role models can be a powerful guide for the change we desire at any age.

Don't know where you're going?  Ask yourself whom you admire -- or envy.  If instead of wasting energy wishing you were them you would adapt the positive behaviors that got them where they are, you now have a roadmap to the life you want.

Role models blaze trails that you can follow if you'll put down the TV remote and the National Enquirer and get busy doing what they do -- instead of just wishing you were them.

This isn't some crackpot notion I just came up with.  NLP strategists have been teaching this method for personal change for years and years.  Junior executives have modeled the clothes they wear, the language they use, even their dietary choices based on the preferences of the CEOs they yearn to become replace someday.

If you don't know who your role models are, ask yourself when you feel jealousy that's beyond your conscious control.  "Man, I want a life like that."  Well why not go out and get it?  Your role model can show you the way.

We are all each other's teachers.  You just have to pick out the ones you want to become.  We're not in 3rd grade anymore.  We get to pick our own Mrs. Trout and Mr. Thomas.

So who's your role model?  And what did you do today to bring your life a little closer into alignment with theirs?