The Subtle Power of Changing Your Identity
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Changing Your Identity
We mistakenly attempt to change our habits while keeping our core identity. As we play our different roles, we have to switch to different identities, like a father, teacher, reader, speaker and entrepreneur.
One can derive many benefits from making this powerful subtle change of changing one’s mindset about who we are, a more focussed and intentional process.
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Benefits Of Changing Your Identity
- Changing your identity will automatically lead you to discard some behaviours that are not associated with that identity, helping you stop smoking or eating meat, for example.
- Your behaviour will align with the behaviour of the chosen identity.
- You will not have to lecture yourself every day about your motivations.
- You will be surprised about the many old beliefs about your abilities suddenly vanishing.
- The mindset change will bring new growth and new possibilities.
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How To Change Your Identity
- The best and fastest way to change your identity is to do it intentionally and consciously.
- Visualize yourself as the person in the new identity, like a writer, a minimalist, a non-smoker or a vegan, and write down the same to reflect on it.
- Get into action mode and see yourself being the new person, like getting up in the morning and witnessing yourself wearing the running shoes and going out for a run. See yourself in your new identity while in action.
- Appreciate and reinforce your new identity on yourself and be the change. See how easy it is to be an early riser or a runner or a writer.
- If you miss a day or two, don’t give up and visualize yourself as the new identity handling the disruption.
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