Silence The Alpha Identity
Play it cool. Fake it until you make it. Look the part. Ratchet up the bravado.
Sometimes we will do just about anything it takes to get us revved up to break a bad habit, try something new, take on a challenge, or pursue world domination.
In my athletic and executive lives I have tried, at times, to deploy an Alpha Identity when I thought the situation called for it most.
Easily, I could coax myself into a jolt of confidence. But to sustain that confidence? That was a different story.
Alpha Identity
Alpha Identity requires us to push more energy to maintain the appearance of confidence. It creates distance from our natural states of growth and improvement.
Alpha Identity relies on someone else’s voice to tell us, “Let’s do this!”
Progress can be achieved. But then, we are obligated to sustain the theater, because the bravado behind the Alpha Identity comes from a place that isn’t real. We are just role playing. And the role becomes exhausting. We rely more and more on other people’s rhetoric to get us through.
And holding onto an Alpha Identity attracts even bigger challenges and problems into our world. It is a magnet for trouble.
Silence
To silence your Alpha Identity can feel vulnerable. But in reality, to go silent pulls from your inner strength. And in backing away from the Alpha Identity you allow yourself to arrive at a place where the challenges you will encounter are the ones you can handle. The ones that you can take care of with the honest attributes you possess today.
Silencing the Alpha Identity opens up the channel to the strength and confidence in you that are waiting to be activated. Those real attributes will warmly greet challenging elements with…
“How can we make this work?”
…instead of with “I wonder what is coming at me next?”
With gratitude,
Joe
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Hi, I’m Joe, the owner of 5 With Joe Performance Coaching. My clients are leaders, organizations, and teams who utilize my Olympic Gold Medal performance strategies and 40 years of navigating whitewater river rapids to streamline decision making and actions when engaged in complicated river currents of business and life.
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