65. Be, Do, Have

Today I was tired.

My motivation was sapped, but then I remembered something…

I may be tired of waking up early.

I may be tired of running.

I may be tired of being trying to be disciplined.

But I still knew I could prevail because of my identity.

Failure comes from focussing on the activity too much without first recognising who you want to be.

When you embody the identity of your activity your lifestyle changes for you to become the person to fulfill that and the goals become inevitable realities.

We must be who we want to identify as before we do the work. We must do work before we have the results.

Breaking the loop breaks your identity- loss of identity is powerful- and loss aversion is a strong motivation.

So I got on the trainers and went for that run. I didn’t want to lose my identity.

Do you want to lose yours?