You don’t need a new identity. You’re likely happy with the identity you have. Everything you’ve done, every experience you’ve created and lived through has made you who you are.

What if that thinking is backwards?

What if, instead of what we’ve lived through creates who we are, we create our experiences based on who we believe we are? 

If you look at any of the people we generally consider to be hugely successful or powerful, you’ll see that they believed in their vision of themselves and what they could bring to the world. 

Your label, job title, and name – those aren’t your identity. How you know yourself, what you believe about yourself: that’s your identity. 

But…

Stop it. There is no “but” here. Pointing to external circumstances as if they’re permanent is where you’re stuck in your identity. Anyone who has created anything of significance has had tremendous challenges along the way. They’ve leveraged those challenges into lessons. They’ve learned and grown. They’ve gotten by, gotten through, and built to a place of thriving.

From rock legends to great leaders in technological or scientific breakthroughs, each has endured life’s ups and downs and setbacks, and ultimately enjoyed great breakthroughs. 

How did they breakthrough? And, more important, how will you get to your Next Big Next?

Change the way you think about yourself from the time you wake up until… well, that’s it. Just change the way you think about yourself. What are you working on? Who are you serving? How does your body move? What are you eating? Who are you hanging out with?

All of those factors and more are based on what you believe to be true about yourself.

Change your beliefs, change your identity – even just a little – and you’ll change your external circumstances. Heck, you might even change the world.

Let’s go!

Your new identity is about who you believe yourself to be. Can you believe in yourself just 1% more today than you did yesterday? Compounding belief is magic.

Keep making your magic. Your Next Big Next demands it.

See you here next week.

= Wayne =