You need to change who you are

I have this habit of starting these emails with a quote.

So here’s one for today’s topic.

The person you are now is not the same person who will achieve all the goals you have, because if you were that person, you would have achieved all your goals by now.

This hurt me when I first heard it.

It mainly hurt my ego, because I knew it was true.

The person I am now is not the same person who will be able to get everything I want in my life.

Just like the past version of myself wouldn’t be capable of having my current life now.

You have to constantly sacrifice your current self and evolve into the person you want to be.

This usually involves breaking bad habits or doing things you haven’t done before.

If you want to be fit, it means no longer eating like shit and instead eating whole clean foods and going to the gym regularly even if you don’t want to.

If you want to connect more with your spiritual side, it means surrendering yourself to a higher power and being more present and grateful in life.

If you want to make more money, it means not watching TV and playing video games in your free time but learning new skills and solving real marketplace problems instead.

Change is hard, it’s ridiculously hard.

Which is why most people don’t ever change and stay the same.

And then they complain and wonder why they don’t have the life they want.

When I say you have to change who you are, you don’t need to take it to the absolute extreme.

But you do need to identify as someone who is capable of achieving what you want.

I’m going to give you an action step to change your life that really helped me.

Find someone who’s living a life that you actually want, and then copy what they do.

It’s literally that simple.

If they post their life or business on social media, which they probably do.

Look at what they do and copy it.

If they have a body you want, and you see they do a certain fitness program, start doing that program.

Notice that they have a contagious charisma that helps them in social settings?

Copy that, but obviously not exactly, sprinkle in your own personality in there.

There’s plenty of people I follow online that have a life I want.

I take the bits and pieces of what they do on a daily basis that aligns with my goals and I try to follow it in a similar fashion.

And before I knew it, I saw drastic changes in my life.

Remember:

Having a goal doesn’t make you unique, it’s the price you’re willing to pay to achieve the goal that does.

Change is never easy and it takes time.

You’ll find yourself wanting to engage in bad habits again when things get tough.

But if you stay consistent long enough and you have a strong why as to why you’re doing all of this.

Then over a long enough time horizon, you will succeed.