Get unstuck from an “identity rut”
Recently in a Vanguard mentoring call, of the members was looking for clarity around how to use the "Law of Identity" (which is one of seven laws I taught in Apex Report #001) to become more productive. The gist of the law is that if you can shift how you identify yourself, you can shift how you behave. He said, "I just can't quite understand how I could use an identity shift to be more productive when I'm NOT a productive person and have never been!" I understand his struggle. Deciding to identify as a productive person when you have a whole lifetime of being unproductive can seem extremely illogical, or potentially even self-deceptive! The mistake our friend was making here was that he was STUCK IN THE PAST. Yes, he was previously NOT productive. He cannot honestly identify his PAST self as a productive man. But there is NOTHING stopping him from deciding WHO HE IS NOW. If we let our past define us, then we'd all still be shitting in diapers and crying for breastmilk! So I told him to f*ck the past and decide to identify as a productive man moving forward! You can decide what kind of man you are at ANY point. When this clicked for him, you could practically hear the lightbulb explode in his brain. Examples: "I'm a highly productive man." "I'm the kind of man who generates abundant wealth." "I'm the guy who gets stronger in hardship rather than weaker." Pick one and begin the adventure of embodying it! UYAP! (Unleash Your Apex Potential) Mark Queppet P.S. If you pick "I'm the kind of guy who unleashes his apex potential" - then you'll want to make sure you're getting this month's Apex Report where I show you how to dramatically increase the speed of internalizing your chosen identities.