3 ways your role models can benefit your life

   Before you read this, think of three people you admire. These can be real people, or characters from films or books. Just make sure they’re people YOU admire. Forget what your friends or family think. This is about YOU.  In the alchemy of your life, the people you choose for role models have a lot to do with your potential and your life purpose.
   These people can be quite different from each other. For example, two of my role models are Cher and Anwar Sadat.
   Now you can start thinking about how your role models benefit

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you personally.

Role models have important attributes you possess, but forget you have, or you don’t understand how to fully use them.

   Think about why you admire your role models. How do they seem different from you? What attracts you to them? Just notice what comes up. Don’t make any negative judgments about yourself, though.

   When I say our role models have important attributes we possess, but forget we have, I mean that there is just something we admire about them that we, on some level think is impossible for us to achieve. We don’t hate them for it, though.  For example, I admire Anwar Sadat’s drive toward peace, and I admire Cher’s gutsiness. Oddly, I don’t have any of her CDs. That’s because it’s not her music that attracts me. Though I’m thrilled as all get out for every CD or concert seat she sells.

   But why we select certain role models goes deeper than this.

Role models play out those attractive qualities in a way that you admire and would like to emulate.

   One of the mysteries of attraction is that we don’t really know why we’re drawn to one person and not another, even if they’re wildly similar. Such is the case with role models. Sure, Cher’s intrepid, but so are a million other people. And there are plenty of world leaders inspire to create peace, but for me there’s just something about Anwar Sadat. Even watching sports, the alchemy’s at work when I’m drawn to watching Richard Sherman succeed far more than I’m drawn to Russell Wilson. It’s a mystery.  

    There’s just something about how those people pull off their attributes.

   So why have role models? It can’t be just about watching them be themselves.

Role models play their role in a way you want to play yours.

   Okay, here’s the magic of having role models.

   When you’re stuck in a tough or perplexing situation, ask yourself, what would your role model  do? Then allow yourself to see, feel, or hear it. Let your psyche’s attraction to your role model inform and educate you.  Next try to emulate it.

   Here’s a true story that illustrates this perfectly:

   One weekday morning I was halfway around a cloverleaf connecting Orange County, California’s 73 freeway to the 55, when suddenly my car died. Everything about it just quit, including the car phone (this was back in the late 90s). While I stewed in the driver’s seat, wondering what to do, the morning commuters whizzed past me. Stuck in my frustration, I thought: What would Cher do? Instantly, I knew that she’d do two things. First, she’d get a piece of paper and write a name (i.e., my husband’s name) and phone along with a message explaining where she could be found. Then she’d get out of the car and start walking toward an off-ramp where she could find a phone.

   I did those two things, and it wasn’t a couple of minutes before a man stopped and asked if he could call someone for me (yippee!). And it wasn’t another ten minutes and Davy was there to help me call a tow for my transmission-less car and drive me home.

I like to think of it as The Law of Creating because it’s bigger than the Law of Attraction.

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