How To Shift Your Identity To Reach Your Goal

identity shift is when one intentionally works on becoming a different version of themselves in order to grow and achieve their big goals

In business, an identity shift going to be essential as you need to become 

In order to achieve your goal

And in this post, I’ll cover the following to help you shift your identity and reach your goal

What you’ll learn:

Why should you shift your identity

How to shape your identity 

why shift your identity and what happens if you don’t

1-Because that is what helps you reach your goals you can’t reach big goals that you’ve never done before while still being the same person which will require you to shift your thinking, shift your thoughts about yourself ultimately become someone different.

Become the person who achieves the goal which is not the” you” right now

Reaching your goal happens when you become the person who does that, has that goal

and how you do that is through shifting your identity and taking action from that identity

2- to grow and become the better version of yourself

Growth might not be the present thing in the world but the most rewarding and mindblowing without it you wither

Our brains work on maintaining the sense of self by bridging the gaps in the information that we have about ourselves and the world

This means that our brains try to keep you the same because it’s the easiest, the familiar and resist change and try to hold into what you think is you

because without it you’ll lose the sense of self that you know and created through your interpretations of the events around you and through direct & indirect societal programming 

that means it’ll take time and effort to shift your identity but is essential because that’s what we see ourselves through and that’s what leads us to take action or not

because we act in accordance with what we believe we are and who we think we are and shiting your identity will make it easier to take action toward your goal

How to change your identity

1-decide on who you want to be

Start by setting your goal for instance your goal is to make $10k in revenue in your business 

After that, think about who you need to become in order to achieve your goal

What thoughts, beliefs, feelings, values and actions do you need to have

These are the basics 

 you can expand on who you want to be

By thinking about how she speaks, how she dresses, how she moves

how she feels about herself, how she feels about her business,…

2-visualise it & write down

Take the time to visualize that person and everything about them then write down your vision

a Pulse id to do this visualization regularly for better results

visualize the things you wrote in step 1

3-think her thoughts daily starting with one thought at a time

What I mean here is to make it a habit to think the same thoughts she would think daily

Of course, you can’t change your thoughts all of them in one day but you can start by intentionally choosing one thought that she/he would think

Ask yourself what would she/he would think today.

what would she/he feel? How does she/he show up?

eg. should think she is capable of making money, she would think that there are people who want s what she offers…etc

she would do is to show up confidently, share her offer, invite people in, and give value…

Then do it, think intentionally throughout the day and take action from there

You can use the things you wrote in the first & second steps or come up with new ones

also, you can make it about something specific about your biz for example specific thoughts they would think about your offer, your sales, content, and products,…

4- surround yourself with people who think the same, who make it normal for you Aka normalize it

Join communities that have common goals, and the identity as you want to have.

when you do that you expose yourself to ideas, and thoughts that make it easy

to become that person who can reach that goal of yours

Since you’re an entrepreneur then you can join entrepreneurial communities and

you can go to specific niche-based communities that you’re in and join communities there 

5-ask yourself if this is what she/he would do or not. As a filter to know what to do next, at any given  moment, or, if what you are doing is the right thing to do

With this question, you learn to trust your own wisdom and what you have already identified. we can get confused about if what we are doing is helping us or not toward our goal and who we want to be 

Use this question or similar whenever you’re confused and trust the answer your mind gives you and do as it tells you

because you know and that voice that tells you don’t most of the time is lying to you especially if you never had learned to trust it before

Here you have it!! I want to emphasize on not complicating this process instead spend the time applying it over and over until you reach your goal and shift your identity

To your success 

Wafaa