Who are YOU Becoming?

In Atomic Habits, James Clear says that our habits become our identity. It’s simple, it makes a lot of sense, and I don’t think many people think about that if they haven’t heard or read James Clear. You’re identity is who you are, it’s who you think you are and it’s who you project to the world. It’s worthwhile to take inventory of your current habits. What do your activities look like now? What did you do in the last 24 hours? What is a typical day for you? What would you like it to be? Whatever your habits are dictate what your identity is. So who is it that you want to be? If you are perfectly happy with who you are and where you are in life and don’t have any gaps you’d like to fill for the rest of your life, well then congratulations, you’re at the finish line. But I think most of us have more we’d like to do with my life. I’d like to run an Ultra Marathon, I’d like to write a book, and I’d like to be more in control of my time by creating my own income. So I move my habits in that direction. I train every day, I write every day, and I’m researching how to monetize the first two. Simple right? But until I just wrote that sentence, my vision has never been so clear. Which brings up an important point. Just get started, whatever it is, don’t wait until your mood, or the time, or the weather is just right; it never will be. If you have fitness goals, just start running in whatever shoes you have, don’t do months of research trying to figure out the perfect shoes or running watch or whatever it is that’s keeping you from heading out the door, just go. And the why will hit you later and you’ll start to organize the pieces so you can do what you need to do in the same 24 hours we each have available to us. So go take a look at your habits and keep an eye on them throughout the week, if you keep them up, who will you be in 5 years? Now consider where you’d prefer to be and start building habits that move you in that direction. Don’t rush it and don’t expect overnight success/changes. Human tendency is to over estimate what we can do in a day and underestimate what we can do in a year.

Now get out there and make a small repeatable change today.