Identity

Habits are built on the foundations of identity. I am a runner, so I will go on daily runs. I am a gardener; I spend my free time gardening in the backyard. I am a Content Creator; I spend my time editing and filming videos. The identity that is chosen impacts the daily habits.

Without Identity, why do these habits and how could you realistically stick to them. Motivation is not all external influences such as goals or peers helping along the way. Identity is internal, Intrinsic motivation is powerful. The days that are hard, sluggish and dragging to get anything done, can be the most important. These days are a choice, is that your true identity or will you give up on it. Identity holds accountability to your actions and puts it at a much higher standard. I am the person who inspires and I do it daily. I am a person of my word, and I won’t be derailed and thrown off course. Life gives us many opportunities to give in, be off track and stumble off the road but we can decide to always get back on track. It might be tougher to do some days and others, it’s just a small rut in the road.

Diversify the identity, I am more than just one thing.

Being just tied to one identity can feel great for a while but it’s easy to fall into a pit of disappointment and despair. A fall so far off the road, you can’t see it through the dark fog. The light is still there, just distant and out of scope. An athlete is a common example of this spiral. Many college athletes feel this deep spiral away from the identity they clung to for many years. It creates a void that can’t be easily filled, as it consumed much of their time. The joy of the sport, the competition, the fuel and unstoppable desire to win just this year… All stopped in little notice, you thought you had years left but this chapter came to a close much sooner than expected. The world you built crumbles down, it seems cataclysmic and it shatters like a glass pane hitting on the corner. Just like that you have to start a new, new friends to support your journey, getting comfortable molding a new world of excitement. This time, it will be different, but it wasn’t. A foundation created a new, on the same formula, it all reacts the same and once again start a new but this time with more in mind. To be more than just one Identity, I am everything that Interests me and more. I appreciate everything, I am not just an athlete, but I am a competitor, I am a winner, I am great motivator, I am the person who shows up early, and I am simply all the attributes and qualities that makes me different and great at what I do. Nobody has put the pieces together like I have and that okay, in fact… it’s extremely rare, extraordinaire, it’s profound, all old ideas stacked again and again to create a new puzzle piece that is your own.

My Identity is diversified, unique and unquestionably me.

Be more than just one identity, I am more than just one thing, I am bigger and more capable than that.

I am capable of being more.