If you want to change your life, I mean radically improve your life, you must first change your perception of yourself.
- It comes down to beliefs
At the end of the day it doesn’t matter how hard you work and how many hours you put in; if you don’t believe you can do it, you won’t do it.
- You won’t do it because when you get to that impossible moment, you’ll quit or you’ll procrastinate.
- You’ll come up with all sorts of excuses because you don’t believe you can do it.
But, if you identify yourself as someone who does achieve that particular thing when you get to those impossible moments, you will rise to the occasion.
- Even if there’s only 1% of people in the world capable of achieving it, you’ll believe you are in that 1%, because you identify yourself as a winner.
- You identify yourself as someone who will do whatever it takes.
- Someone who’s willing to go through the pain to get to the other side
- You identify yourself as someone who will win in the end no matter what.
- You identify yourself as someone who will do whatever it takes.
Think about habits and addictions you want to change
- If you’re a smoker for example, no matter what processes you go through to change your habit of smoking, you’ll never change it long-term if you still identify yourself as a smoker.
- If you see the process as hard or see it like it is taking something away from you, it’s taking away your stress release or whatever story you tell yourself
- The people who quit smoking without cravings do so because their new identity has changed.
- They’re not smoking anymore because smoking is equal to death
- The bad habit is viewed as something that takes away from their life, not adds to it.
It’s the same for any heavy any addiction anything you want to change in your life.
- Change your identity and change the meaning you give to that thing, and you’ll be able to remove it and replace it with something that takes you to a much better place.
- Somewhere you actually want to be.
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Take a moment by yourself and ask some deep and honest questions.
- You might want to write these down.
- Ask them, write your answers, then after that write down how you want to see yourself.
What is your current identity?
- How do you view yourself in regards to your health?
- Are you someone who is healthy?
- Are you someone who has discipline to eat foods that make you stronger every day?
- Are you someone who exercises every day?
- If no, why not?
- If yes, can you train better harder or differently so you feel at your peak every day in regards to your achievements in life?
Can you do more?
- If yes, Why haven’t you?
- What is holding you back?
- Do you enjoy what you do for a living?
- What can you change to enjoy it more?
How would you describe yourself in three sentences?
- Write it down.
If you were to explain your qualities and struggles in three or less sentences to a complete stranger, how would you describe yourself?
- Write down whatever comes to your mind.
- This is not about being perfect or looking good. This is private. This is honest, and if you’re real and ready, it will lead to change.
Now write down how you want to see yourself
- Picture one year from today.
- Imagine yourself one year from today.
- After all the daily work you’ve put in to transform your life, look at yourself from a bird’s eye view.
- You’re looking with pride because you are the exact person you want to be.
- You created this you and built this character.
- Now write down what qualities this person has. Write down in two to three short sentences who this person is.
- Is this someone who is completely authentically themselves?
- Is this someone you see smiling all the time?
- Someone with great relationships?
- Someone who lights up everyone they come into contact with?
- Is this someone who has a crazy amount of physical energy?
- Someone who has unbreakable discipline?
- Someone that makes life looks easy and fun?
- Someone who has created the wealth and happiness exactly as they pictured?
- Is this someone who learns and applies that learning to achieve results?
- Is this someone who keeps going and going and going?
- Who is that person?
Now write one sentence who are you now? Who are you? I am….
- I am someone who lives with passion.
- I am someone who is disciplined with ease.
- I am someone who only concerns that which makes me stronger
- Food, learning, people
- I am someone who lives every day to the fullest, and pushes myself every today so I am stronger every tomorrow.
- I am someone who knows exactly where they are going so I only take actions that get me closer to that place in every area.
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