Among your most important beliefs are those you hold about who you are. The power to tap into your tremendous potential comes from your identity: how you define yourself, and what you believe you can achieve.
Trying to live in a way that's inconsistent with your true nature will create a life of frustration, stress and disappointment. You must learn to embrace your deepest needs, desires, strengths, fears, values and beliefs in order to create harmony and tap into your tremendous potential.
Needs and desires:
You will act according to your views of who you truly are — whether these views are accurate or not. How would you define your identity?
What are your true:
2. Once you know who you are, you must learn to be yourself.
Strengths:
Values:
Fears:
4. The fastest way to expand your identity is to do something that's inconsistent with your current self-image: Example… complete a physical challenge like running a 5k.
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We all contain the power to reinvent ourselves and create a new, empowered identity that expands what is possible in our lives. The key is to take conscious control of the beliefs we are creating about ourselves, so they can propel us toward what we desire most.
5. Your personal identities are in a constant state of evolution.
What is your new true identity?
Remember: Outcomes are about what you get. Processes are about what you do. Identity is about what you believe. With outcome-based habits, the focus is on what you want to achieve. With identity-based habits, the focus is on who you wish to become. Becoming the best version of yourself requires you to continuously edit your beliefs, and to upgrade and expand your identity.
1. Identity is the most important power that determines your actions.
Identity is the strongest force in human personality. We all have a deep and abiding need to remain consistent with how we define ourselves. Any transformation you make within yourself will depend on your ability to expand this identity. By building a new, empowering set of beliefs, you can create a lasting transformation within yourself and in your life.
We have all experienced moments of anxiety and defeat, and as a result have said or done things that don't reflect who we are. This does not make these behaviors a part of our identity. Rather, they are momentary lapses or unique attempts to meet our needs in the moment.
3. Sometimes, people maintain the illusion that their behavior decides who they really are.
What behaviors fear or anxiety do you need to rid yourself of?
What are some activities or things you can do that are consistent to your future evolving personality?
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