Rebuilding a Healthy Identity
SUMMARY
It is not what happens to you in life that matters, it is what you make it mean, and most importantly, it is what you make it mean about yourself.
Hi, this is Grant Herbert, Leadership and Sustainable Performance Coach, and today I want to start a conversation around the foundation of everything you do, and that is your identity.
Every single person on the planet has an opinion about themselves. Your identity is not what you do. Your identity is who you believe you are and who you believe you are not. Every decision that you make is filtered through that belief.
Every single person on the planet operates out of three universal fears: the fear of not belonging, the fear of not being enough, and the fear of not being liked or loved.
Building your identity is all about shifting those limiting beliefs. To do that, you need to look through a different lens.
TRANSCRIPT
It is not what happens to you in life that matters, it is what you make it mean, and most importantly, it is what you make it mean about yourself.
Hi, this is Grant Herbert, Leadership and Sustainable Performance Coach, and today I want to start a conversation around the foundation of everything you do, and that is your identity.
Every single person on the planet has an opinion about themselves. Your identity is not what you do. Your identity is who you believe you are and who you believe you are not.
Every single person on the planet operates out of three universal fears: the fear of not belonging, the fear of not being enough, and the fear of not being liked or loved.
When I was 15, I found out about something that happened when I was a small baby of six months old. My mum took me and she put me on a doorstep and abandoned me, and then she went home. When I found out about that at 15, I had a pity party for about 30 years.
But shifting that belief and realising that I was lovable, I then started to look for evidence for that rather than the negative evidence that I thought I had.
Building your identity is all about shifting those limiting beliefs. To do that, you need to look through a different lens. What I am going to do this month is devote the entire month to helping you rebuild your identity.
What I am going to do during this week and in the following weeks is drop some short videos that will give you some quick and actionable steps that you can take to rebuild your identity. I will see you then.
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