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0:00If you're going into 2026 hoping this
0:03will finally be the year you change, but
0:06deep down you're afraid that you might
0:09be the same version of yourself again.
0:12This video is for you. Every year around
0:15this time, people set new goals, new
0:18habits, new actions, new routines, but
0:21also every year people revert back to
0:24their old self. And this used to happen
0:26to me all the time. I would set all the
0:29goals, make my vision board, and go so
0:32hard the beginning of the year to only
0:34become my old self, and never actually
0:37reach any of my goals. And the thing
0:39was, it wasn't because I was lazy or
0:41undisiplined. And it's not because
0:42you're lazy or you're undisiplined, but
0:45it's because people try to act different
0:47without actually becoming a different
0:50person. So that's why I want to talk
0:52about in today's video how to actually
0:55shift your identity to become a
0:57different person so next year you truly
1:01live the most unrecognizable
1:03unforgettable life for yourself. Now I
1:06have an entire process that I'm going to
1:08go through when it comes to shifting
1:09your identity. But I want to first go
1:11through a very important piece because
1:15most people want to change, but they're
1:18not actually ready to change. And this
1:21happened to me back in 2019. I remember
1:24wanting to change. I remember wanting to
1:27build my own business, start making my
1:29own money, but my identity, my habits,
1:33my actions, my thoughts, and my beliefs
1:35were not matching the identity of a
1:38business owner. Because every single day
1:40during my downtime, instead of reading
1:43books to learn about how to start a
1:45business, I would watch Netflix. Instead
1:47of posting content on social media, I
1:50would be scrolling and watching other
1:52people do it. I didn't spend any time
1:54being in front of the camera and working
1:56on my camera presence. Even though I
1:57wanted to build a brand, I spent the
1:59majority of my time just being insecure
2:02and picking myself apart. So the
2:04identity of who I wanted to become a
2:07real business owner wasn't matching who
2:09I was in the past back then. I was
2:12basically being the person who was
2:14consuming versus creating. So the first
2:17thing that I really want you to ask
2:19yourself and what I had to ask myself
2:21was am I actually ready to change? And
2:25these are the questions that I went
2:27through to actually get to a point to
2:29tell myself that like, okay, I'm
2:30actually ready to commit and I'm
2:32actually ready to do this. Question
2:34number one, are you done reverting back
2:36to your old identity when things feel
2:39hard? True change happens when you
2:42choose to take a different action when
2:44things are falling apart. So, in the
2:46midst of you questioning your life
2:48choices, are you going to actually get
2:51up and go on a walk and go work out? Are
2:54you going to get up and create a game
2:56plan to actually change or are you going
2:58to just pick up your phone and scroll on
3:00social media or watch Netflix? Ask
3:02yourself, are you actually done
3:04reverting back to your old self?
3:07Question number two, are you ready to
3:09choose new habits and let go of old
3:12ones? So once again, if you every single
3:15day you wake up in the morning and you
3:18go to Starbucks and you get yourself a
3:20Frappuccino and a muffin and that's
3:22loaded with sugar and then you crash at
3:25like 11:00 a.m., but you want to be in
3:27the healthiest, fittest body, are you
3:29going to wake up every single morning
3:30and make your own breakfast in the
3:32kitchen? You need to ask yourself this.
3:34Are you actually ready to choose new
3:36habits? Question number three, are you
3:38here to change your identity, not just
3:42get the outcome? This was a big thing
3:44that I really had to ask myself and I
3:46really had to unlearn because a lot of
3:48the times we will only do habits,
3:51actions, and be a new person when we
3:54want a goal. But true change happens
3:57when you actually become that person
3:59regardless of the outcome. So for me, I
4:02didn't want to just make my own money. I
4:04didn't want to just have a business. I
4:06didn't want to just have a husband. I
4:08actually wanted to be the person where I
4:11was wealthy all the time. I wanted to be
4:13the person that felt loved without
4:15needing someone else else to tell me
4:17that, hey, you look beautiful. I wanted
4:20to feel that and be that person for
4:23myself. So I found that for me over the
4:26course of doing personal development
4:27work for close to 10 years now, it's not
4:30just about wanting the outcome, but it's
4:31also about actually being and becoming
4:35that new person. And then last question,
4:37which is one of the biggest ones, are
4:39you ready to stop entertaining negative
4:43thoughts? Negative thoughts will keep
4:45you in your old identity. They will keep
4:47you in your old life. They will keep you
4:49in your old habits. They will disguise
4:51themselves to tell you, hey, just be
4:53comfortable. You know, do what's
4:55familiar to you so that way you feel
4:57good. But your negative thoughts, they
4:59are going to keep you in your old life.
5:01And truly, genuinely, if you actually
5:03want to change your life, you need to
5:05catch your old old thoughts and you need
5:08to tell it that it is done. You are no
5:10longer entertaining that, oh, I can't do
5:13it. I'm inconsistent. You know, I don't
5:15I don't look good enough to be on
5:17camera. we are not entertaining that
5:19anymore. So, if you answered yes to all
5:23of these questions that you're you're
5:25done doing all of these things,
5:27congratulations. That means that you're
5:29actually ready to change and you're
5:31ready to become that new person in 2026.
5:34So, now I want to get into the fun part,
5:36which is actually shifting your identity
5:40and what I call like your identity
5:42transformation. So, what I'm going to do
5:44is I'm going to pull out my iPad and I
5:46am going to draw out your identity
5:50transformation process. Now, what I
5:52actually recommend doing is doing this
5:54with me. So, if you want to grab a pen,
5:57you want to grab a piece of paper, this
5:59is going to be the process of you first
6:02basically just drawing out your old
6:05identity because I always say in order
6:08to become a new person, you need to
6:10become familiar with who you are right
6:12now. So, let's do this process together.
6:15First things first, what you're going to
6:16do is I'm going to draw out a person in
6:20the middle. Now this right now this is
6:24gonna have like a slight smiley face.
6:27This is your old identity. Now you want
6:30to write out basically who you are right
6:32now. So we're going to write out
6:35identity here at the top. Now your
6:37identity is who you live by every single
6:40day. This is not who you want to be.
6:42This is basically the stories that you
6:44tell yourself, the thoughts that you
6:46constantly repeat, the actions that
6:48you're telling telling yourself that
6:50make up the version of you right now. So
6:54right now you might be telling yourself
6:56that I am inconsistent.
6:59You might be the person that always
7:01quits. So you want to write down I
7:03always quit. And this is also where it's
7:06like you're doing this without judging
7:09yourself because when you're writing
7:10down your old identity, you're writing
7:12down all of the things that are
7:13basically stopping you from becoming
7:15your old self. One thing that I had to
7:17write down is I am very insecure because
7:22I used to always compare myself to other
7:24people. So, I had to write that down.
7:27And honestly, when you're doing this,
7:28you're going to have a whole list of
7:30things that you're associating yourself
7:32with that you don't even realize that
7:34you're doing every single day. Because
7:36once again, when I did this process, my
7:38old identity, like my inner dialogue
7:40every day was like, you can't do it.
7:42You're not good enough. Like, like it's
7:45going to take you years to even make a
7:47change in your life. This is the story
7:49that is basically creating the life that
7:51you have right now. So take the time to
7:54write out every single story, dialogue
7:56in or thought that you are having. And
7:59then after you write out your identity,
8:01then we want to get into the second
8:03piece that makes up your identity. And
8:05these are your thoughts
8:08and your beliefs.
8:11Now, of course, when you're writing down
8:13your identity, you might have different
8:15thoughts that you wrote down in that
8:16section, but this is where you want to
8:18get deeper and you want to write out
8:20like the repeating thoughts that you're
8:22telling yourself every single day
8:23because thoughts are basically the
8:25language of your life and beliefs are
8:28the rules that you live by every single
8:31day. So, the the repeated thought that
8:34you might be telling yourself is I don't
8:37want to do it. Your thoughts will always
8:39support the life that you're building.
8:42So if you're trying to do something
8:44that's hard, and you're telling
8:45yourself, "Oh, I don't really want to do
8:47it. I'd rather just sit on the couch and
8:49watch Netflix," that is supporting the
8:52identity that you're creating for
8:53yourself because then you start to tell
8:54yourself, "Oh, this is, you know, too
8:56hard. I'm inconsistent. I don't really
8:58want to do this. I'm insecure." And that
9:00starts to make up who you actually are.
9:02But on the flip side also, if you tell
9:03yourself that I'm disciplined, and once
9:07again, you're supposed to write down
9:08your old your old thoughts right now,
9:10but I just want to show you this as an
9:11example. If you tell yourself you're
9:13disciplined, your life is going to start
9:15to show all the reasons why that's
9:17actually true for you. But for me, for
9:19an example, I didn't say that I was
9:21disciplined. I wrote down that, you
9:23know, I'm lazy. That those are the
9:25thoughts that would go through my mind.
9:26And some beliefs I had is it's really
9:29hard to make money.
9:32It's also very hard to find love.
9:36Some other thoughts for me, especially
9:38since I want to build a business on
9:39social media, social media is too
9:42saturated. So, as you're doing this, you
9:45just want to write down once again all
9:46the thoughts and beliefs that you think
9:47is stopping you from creating the life
9:49that you want. And sometimes
9:51doing this in sections is really going
9:53to help. So, if you want to work on your
9:55love life, think about all the thoughts
9:57and beliefs that are stopping you from
9:58actually putting yourself out there out
10:00there and starting to find love. If you
10:02want to make more money like how I did,
10:05write down all the thoughts and beliefs
10:06that might be stopping you from actually
10:08becoming wealthy, from actually building
10:10a business. And then the last piece of
10:12this is you want to write down all of
10:15the actions
10:16and the habits that your old self is
10:18doing that is keeping you consistent
10:21with your old identity. So once again,
10:23this might be choosing
10:26to watch Netflix
10:28over reading.
10:30Maybe it's constantly texting
10:34your ex,
10:36even if they've already moved on, but
10:39you still haven't moved on yourself.
10:41Maybe it's eating
10:43junk food when you feel sad or stressed.
10:47I know a big thing for me, which some
10:49people think it's good, but for me, I
10:51just did this so much was like
10:53complaining and gossiping to my friends.
10:57It's one thing to like vent to your
11:00friends about like a problem that you're
11:02having in your life, but if you're doing
11:03it so consistently, that ends up
11:06actually creating a lot of your life and
11:08your identity. And I talked a little bit
11:10more about this in this video. So, if
11:12you haven't watched this, watch it after
11:13this video. But after you do this, you
11:16are going to have an entire list,
11:18basically a blueprint of who you are
11:21right now. And who you are right now,
11:23once again, is not a match of who you
11:24want to be. So if we know who you don't
11:27want to be, it's going to be so much
11:29easier to not do those things when we
11:32write out our new identity and who we
11:35want to shift into in 2026. So the
11:38second part of this is after you write
11:39down your entire old self, your old
11:43identity, you want to draw out a new
11:46person, a new stick figure, and go
11:48through this process again. So for just
11:50like the sake of this video, I already
11:52drew out the new person. And this is
11:55basically who I always wanted to be. All
11:59of like the the identity, the inner
12:01dialogue, the thoughts, the beliefs, the
12:02actions, and the habits. So, for an
12:04example, my identity now is I'm always
12:08somebody that figures things out, right?
12:10So, instead of saying, "Oh, I just can't
12:12do it." Or like, you know, it just
12:14always so hard for me to like get things
12:16done. That's not something that I
12:18struggle with anymore. I'm great at
12:21making money. That is something that I
12:23struggled with a lot. So, that is the
12:25new identity that I'm just taking on.
12:27Even if it's not true right now, if I
12:29tell myself that I'm I'm great at making
12:31money. I'm great at figuring things out.
12:33Like, I'm great at always reaching my
12:35goals, that is what I'm actually going
12:37to start to see in my life. So, you want
12:39to start to write out all of the new
12:41identity, the inner dialogue, the
12:43stories that you want to tell yourself
12:44that are going to make up the new
12:46identity. Once again, they do not have
12:47to be true right now. That's the whole
12:49point. You are not your new self right
12:51now, and that is okay. But you want to
12:52write out the new identity. And then all
12:55the thoughts and beliefs. I'm so
12:57consistent. I'm so grateful for the life
12:59that I have right now. I'm so excited to
13:02learn. This is a very big one. Okay. If
13:04you are trying to do something new and
13:06different and you don't have knowledge
13:08in that area, you need to learn. You
13:10need to read books. You need to watch
13:11videos. So tell yourself, I'm so excited
13:13to learn. Um some beliefs that I had to
13:16instill inside of myself. Posting videos
13:19will make me more confident. It's not
13:22even about posting videos so I go viral
13:24and I build a business once again back
13:26then my old self but it was just about
13:28like posting just posting a video will
13:31make me more confident and and in
13:33posting a video naturally I'll build an
13:36audience anyone can make a lot of money
13:38because that is so true like it doesn't
13:40matter your past it doesn't matter what
13:42happened you know previously in your old
13:45job in your old business in your old
13:47career or whatever it was anybody can
13:49actually make a lot of And then going
13:51into actions and habits, reading for 30
13:54minutes a day. When I actually made this
13:57a habit for myself, not only did I
13:59naturally learn so much, it was easy for
14:02me. I didn't have any resistance because
14:05like I I didn't associate myself with my
14:07old self anymore. I stepped into my new
14:09self. 8 a.m. gym routine every single
14:12morning. It wasn't a question of whether
14:14I'm going to go out or not. I was
14:16putting workout clothes on and I was
14:18leaving to go to the gym. posting every
14:20single day at noon. There isn't a day
14:22now that I do not post on social media.
14:25Every single day at noon that is like
14:27literally discipline. Every single day
14:29I'll do it. And then like even just like
14:31speaking up for my needs. I used to be
14:33someone that was such a people pleaser.
14:35I would always like push over um like my
14:38boundaries to please other people. But
14:40for now, but now like I will speak up. I
14:43will tell somebody, hey, if like this
14:45does not align with my habits, my
14:46routines, my actions, who I am right
14:48now, I will not do it. So, you want to
14:51write out your whole new identity and do
14:55it in this way just because it makes it
14:56more fun. Draw out your stick identity.
14:59You can even like draw out like your
15:01routine, kind of like your schedule of
15:04the new version of who you actually want
15:06to be in 2026. Now, the most important
15:09part that really allowed me to change
15:11and become a new person every single
15:13year was being her and embodying her
15:17wholeheartedly, not acting like her.
15:20Because it's so easy to put on this hat
15:24and act like her just when you want to
15:26get the outcome, just when you want to
15:28get a result. But truly embodying this
15:32new identity, truly shifting and
15:34changing your entire life comes by doing
15:38and being this person when nobody else
15:41is watching. Doing this when you don't
15:44even need that outcome, when you're not
15:45expecting and getting the result. So for
15:48me, it wasn't just to be this person
15:51when I'm creating content online. I had
15:54to be this person when I was in my
15:56kitchen eating dinner. the thoughts that
15:58were going in my head when I was
16:00brushing my teeth, getting ready for
16:02bed, I had to actually embody this
16:05person. It's not enough to just, you
16:07know, act like her throughout the day
16:09and just like act like her when you're
16:11out in in public in front of your
16:13friends or going on dates. It's really
16:15about like who are you when nobody is
16:18watching? And when you can actually be
16:20her and embody her and make decisions
16:23and choose thoughts and beliefs that
16:26actually match the new version of
16:29yourself, that is when the shift
16:31actually happens. So one mini thing I
16:34always love to do is practice micro
16:36identities. When you can practice and be
16:38her in boring mundane moments,
16:41regardless of once again the outcome,
16:42the result that you want, that is when
16:44the shift actually happens. You owe it
16:47to yourself to actually change next
16:49year. 2026, it's not another year that's
16:52going to go by where you're going to
16:54revert back to your old self. This is
16:56the year that you're actually going to
16:57make a difference. You're actually going
16:59to stick with it and you're going to do
17:01so because your old identity, it's no
17:03longer here. You don't associate
17:05yourself with her anymore. It's not just
17:07like, oh, I'm just going to do it
17:08tomorrow. You don't even identify
17:11yourself with that person anymore. So,
17:13I'm so excited for 2026. I'm so excited
17:16for you. So, let me know in the comments
17:19one shift that you are going to do
17:21starting today to step into your new
17:24identity. I love you so much, bestie. If
17:27you haven't watched this video, make
17:28sure to watch it next. And until next
17:30time, make sure that you stay
17:31unforgettable.

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