编者语：

聆听内心的声音，听从引导你积极向上的直觉，而不是追随引诱你放弃自甘沉沦的魔鬼。从今天开始，掌握自己的命运，做自己的英雄！

How To Be Your Own Hero如何做自己的英雄

Trust that voice within, the good one, not the one that tells you to give up and go to the pub. Improve those problematic areas in your life by becoming your own hero.

Step 1: Choose your Hero选择自己的英雄榜样

First you must choose a personal hero; real, fictional, dead or alive. What are the qualities you look up to in this person?

If you don't have a hero you can create one based on the qualities you most admire in people or would love to possess. Such as being confident, strong, assertive or authoritative.

Step 2: Emulating your hero.模仿你的偶像

To begin with simply consider the qualities of this hero and act some out in private. Get into their mindset by assuming their posture, using their expressions and striding in the same strong manner.

Step 3: Re-enacting the past.重构过去

Consider some situations at work you think should have gone better. This may have been during a meeting or presentation, whilst on the phone or just chatting with your boss during lunch.

Next play out these scenes as your hero. How would they have acted in the same situations? What would they have said or done?

Step 4: Trying it for real.新的生活

Now you have to take on some of these characteristics. It may feel strange as you are not used to behaving this way.

See how it feels to use these qualities in reality. Ask yourself whether you were just acting as your hero or if you were uncovering hidden attributes to your own personality. You will probably discover that you are not just pretending to be your hero – but that you are, in fact, your own hero.