Our current life trajectory defines our identity.

James Clear states that “Your identity is your repeated beingness”. The word identity comes from the Latin words "essentitas", which means "being", and, "identidem", which means repeatedly. Your identity is literally your “repeated beingness.”

To change your identity, you have to change your habits.

Identify Comes By Repetition

Doing something over and over again forms our identity.

We are identified with what we habitually do. The key element here is reputation not intensity. We become readers when we repeatedly read. We become smokers when we repeatedly smoke. When we stop the habit we stop to be identified with it.

We start with standardization, then optimization. Habits are the backbone of our identity.

Identity As Repeated Beingness

Behaviors are usually reflecting identities.

People behave the way they believe they are, either consciously or unconsciously. The obstacle to positive change at all levels is identity conflict. You can't rely on being motivated. You have to start providing your new identity by behaving like the person you want to be.

We should be more concerned by our life’s trajectory, not our current results. 

To Change Your Identity, Rely On Discipline

We become what we constantly do. Our habits.

We change what we constantly do to change who we are. The change has to start from deep, from our belief, from our conviction, not from our motivation. Motivation gets us started, discipline keeps us going. What yields value is not to start, but to continue. What makes us fit is not to start exercising but the discipline of exercising.

Discipline yields compounded interests. Our identity changes for the better when we establish good habits.

You can change what you are identified with today, by starting a new good habit.