Shopping has taken on a whole new feel thanks to the pandemic, hasn’t it? Sanitize your hands at the door, keep your social distance from the other people in the store, stand on the blue dot on the floor. Such a different world.
I happened to be shopping for a pair of pyjamas last week, when I spotted a night-shirt that had an intriguing message emblazoned across the front of it: What Would Wonder Woman Do? A colour graphic of Wonder Woman looked me in the eye from under the neckline as if to say “Well…?”
“How cool is that?” I thought.
I’d actually heard of the idea before from the author of a book called The Alter Ego Effect: The Power of Secret Identities to Transform your Life.
Todd Herman writes that long before we all became adults with jobs and responsibilities, we were kids who pretended to be superheroes. You know… Wonder Woman, Batman, Spiderman, Batgirl… the list is endless. And as our alter egos, we could do anything.
Herman says that this alter ego is still inside of us; we just need use our imaginations in order to bring it to life again.
American football all-star Bo Jackson knows all about it. “Bo Jackson has never played a down of football,” he says. Instead, Jackson claims his alter ego, the character “Jason” from the “Friday the 13th” movie franchise did it all. Seriously.
So if Bo Jackson can do it, why not you? Lost your job? No money? Kids making you nuts? Recovering from an illness?” Going in for surgery? Hang tough and take a tip from the greatest night-shirt I know. Just twirl your cape and ask yourself: “What Would Wonder Woman Do?”
Then do it.
You’ll be surprised how quickly your mindset takes off in a new direction… the positive kind.
