TO BE A TRUE SUCCESS STORY, YOU WILL NEED TO WIN SOME EPIC BATTLES AGAINST YOUR VILLAIN
Now it is time to learn how to defeat your villain and all of its negative emotions and destructive behaviors. But before we get started, I want you to understand one unfortunate truth. Your villain will always exist and will continually come up with new and innovative strategies to try and haunt you and hinder your performance. However, there is another positive and more powerful truth. Once you master the conquer process, your villain will have little to no impact on your performance regardless of how frequent or what form it shows its ugly face. The core aspects of the conquer process are timeless and unchanging regardless of the tactics used by your villain.
Conquer Process:
- Determine the precise villain tactic you are trying to conquer. It is important to narrow down the specific villain tactic in order to know exactly what needs to be defeated.
- Determine the psycle section of the tactic: situation, thought, feeling, action, or result. It is crucial to categorize the villain tactic into its proper psycle section in order to determine its cause and defeat it.
- Decide which alter ego inspiration can easily handle this tactic. Pick an existing inspiration from the Triple Downs, Superpowers, and Name chapters that can destroy this particular villain tactic with ease.
- If the villain tactic is not a situation, determine the situation causing the tactic. Knowing the situation is the first step in using the psycle to defeat the villain tactic.
- Determine the thought your inspiration would have in response to this situation. If your inspiration was in your shoes, what would they be thinking? A little hint, it will be a positive thought.
- Determine your inspiration’s corresponding feeling. Again, if your inspiration was in your shoes, what feeling would they have? Another hint, it will be a positive feeling.
- Determine your inspiration’s corresponding action. Again, if your inspiration was in your shoes, what action would they take? Another hint, it will be a positive action.
- Determine your inspiration’s corresponding result. Again, if your inspiration was in your shoes, what result would they produce? Another hint, it will be a positive result.
- Execute the positive psycle to conquer your villain’s tactic. If you respond to your villain tactic with the same positive emotion and behavior as your inspiration, you will experience the same positive result as your inspiration.
Get ready as you begin the incredible journey of conquering your villain. You will work through the conquer process for the main villain tactic determined for your top 3 season results. Remember, it is the mastery of this process that will free you from the emotions and behaviors holding you back from your true athletic potential.
Curveballs
One last item to note, your villain can try and surprise you during competition with all kinds of crazy antics. These will be random situations used to try and throw you off your game. It may be the weather, a particular opponent, an injury, illness, hurtful words from someone, equipment failure like your shoe coming untied, or any other unexpected trick hurled at you during competition. Learn the conquer process to the point where you can do it on the fly. This will allow you to not only handle your pre-determined villain tactics but will also have a huge impact on neutralizing any unforeseen curveballs thrown at you in the heat of the moment of competition.
You have a villain that contains the main emotions and behaviors that do not align with your top 3 season results. Once you work through the chapter questions, you will have learned how to conquer your villain regardless of the tactics it uses against you. From that point forward, when your villain shows up, you can look directly into its eyes, call it by name, defeat it, and send it cowering out of the stadium. You will need to practice the conquer process. But once you have mastered it, your villain will become ineffective in its attempts to hinder your performance or prevent you from reaching your true potential. Bottom line, you and your alter ego will become an unstoppable force.