Identity Shifting: How to Get Ahead of 99% of People (in 2024)
Summary
TLDRThe video discusses a 3-step process to reinvent yourself when you feel stuck in life. First, tune into the emotional pain you may be feeling as a signal for change. Next, envision an exciting future 2.0 version of yourself across work, relationships and lifestyle. Write it down and revisit it daily as inspiration. Finally, take daily actions that reinforce this new identity, rather than waiting for motivation. Follow the ready, fire, aim approach of doing before overpreparing. Small steps compound to build momentum towards realizing your vision of the best life possible.
Takeaways
- 😞 Recognize and learn from the pain and dissatisfaction in your life
- 😃 Get excited about the possibilities and your future vision for yourself
- 📝 Design your ideal future self - how you will work, rest and play
- ⏰ Revisit your vision and goals every morning and evening
- 🚀 Set aspirational goals to tap into excitement and motivation
- 👀 When you see others succeeding, get inspired rather than compared
- 🗓️ Make a specific action plan to bridge the gap to your goals
- 🎭 Reinforce your desired identity by acting as your future self daily
- 🏋️♀️ Take action first, motivation comes after starting
- ❌ Overcome procrastination by showing up daily as a professional
Q & A
What is the first step Clark suggests to reinvent yourself?
-The first step is to become aware of and tune into any emotional or mental pain you may be feeling on a day-to-day basis. This "pain teacher" can provide important lessons and motivation to create change.
What does Clark say negative emotions are a call to action for?
-Clark says negative emotions are like warning signs or gauges telling you to make a change, similar to physical pain directing you to take action to relieve the pain.
What are the 3 areas Clark suggests considering for your vision of your ideal self?
-The 3 areas are: work - what you want your job/income to look like; rest - lifestyle, relationships, health goals; and play - adventures, travel aspirations.
Why does Clark recommend setting an aspirational hourly wage?
-It sets a bold, exciting target to motivate you and tap into feelings of inspiration and possibility rather than limitation.
What did Clark write on his wall to reinforce his income goal?
-He wrote "By the end of this year I will make $10,000 of self-generated income" on a piece of wallpaper and looked at it daily.
What percentage of the study group who made a specific workout plan followed through?
-91% of the group who wrote down a specific time and place to work out completed at least 1 workout per week, compared to only 35% of the other groups.
What does Clark say is key to shifting your identity?
-Reinforcing your new identity by taking small actions daily that align with and confirm that identity shift.
What does Clark say professionals do regardless of motivation?
-True professionals show up every day to do the work, whether they feel motivated or inspired to or not.
What principle does Clark suggest instead of ready, aim, fire?
-He suggests "ready, fire, aim" - get set up then get started, course correcting as you go rather than overplanning.
What does Clark say is often the root cause behind procrastination?
-He says the root is usually not laziness, but rather not knowing what action to take next.
Outlines
😞 Feeling Stuck and Realizing You Need to Reinvent Yourself
The paragraph discusses that feeling when you realize you need to reinvent yourself and change the direction your life is going. It compares momentum in space to momentum in life, stating that unless an outside force acts upon you, you'll keep drifting farther away. It suggests that to change your trajectory, you need to metaphorically take a "fire extinguisher" and give your life a nudge in a new direction.
😃 Envision and Design Your Dream 2.0 Self
The paragraph advises to create an aspirational 2.0 version of yourself and your ideal life across three areas - work, rest, and play. It suggests setting big goals to tap into excitement and motivation. Looking at others ahead inspires rather than compares. Revisiting this vision daily is key to manifestation.
🚀 Take Action to Bridge the Gap Between Current and Future Self
The paragraph explains that it's not enough to just envision your ideal self, you must bridge the gap with concrete action. It shares a study showing that groups with specific workout plans had much higher follow-through than those only told why to workout. It suggests reinforcing your new identity by doing small actions daily, using the mantra "ready, fire, aim" rather than waiting until you feel fully prepared.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Reinvent Yourself
💡Pain Teacher
💡Momentum
💡Sunday Scaries
💡Vision of Self 2.0
💡Designing a Dream Character
💡Aspirational Hourly Wage
💡Identity Shifting
💡Action Plan
💡Ready Fire Aim
Highlights
Learn from negative emotions as a call to action to change your life's momentum
Design a detailed vision of your ideal future self to tap into excitement and motivation
Set an aspirational hourly wage to stretch your income goals
Focus on excitement when you see others succeeding, not comparison or self-doubt
Revisit your future vision every morning and night to reinforce it
60% of my original future vision came true through persistence and action
Bridge the gap between your current and ideal selves with specific action plans
Reinforce your new identity by doing small actions daily that confirm it
Take action first before overanalyzing if you're ready - use the "ready, fire, aim" mindset
Don't wait for motivation, just show up - motivation comes from taking the first step
Overcome procrastination by building momentum, not waiting for inspiration
Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not who someone else is today
Turn painful emotions into fuel and motivation for the life you want
Stay conscious of dissatisfaction instead of numbing yourself with distractions
Objects in motion stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force - change your life's momentum
Transcripts
maybe it's a new year changing jobs
changing cities out of a relationship
maybe you wake up one day you look
yourself in the mirror and you say damn
really thought she'd be further ahead by
now whenever it is we've all probably
gotten that feeling of pit in our
stomach that it was time to reinvent
ourselves I want to show you how to
reinvent yourself in three steps
[Music]
I was watching the movie Gravity the
other day you know where Sandra
Bullock's in space there's a scene
towards the end where she has a fire
extinguisher and she's out there in
space and she's spraying it because she
has no other way to get to her
destination
pretty intense what's scary about that
is that you probably know that in space
unless something hits you once you're on
a trajectory You're Gone Forever there's
no turning back you will just keep
floating and floating and floating
further and further and further away
into the dark abyss Abyss that's because
there's the principle of momentum and if
you remember an object in motion stays
in motion unless acted upon by an
outside force your life works much in
the same way most people if you look at
how they're operating through life
they're sort of sleep walking through it
they don't really stop and pause and say
wait did I actually choose this life or
was it chosen for me if you really want
to change your life reinvent yourself
what that's really saying is I want to
change the momentum I want to change the
direction so I'm not just floating
mindlessly through space I want to
metaphorically take my own fire
extinguisher and just give it a little
nudge like a little sometimes that's all
it takes to nudge you in a different
direction so I have a question and
there's no judgment here but if you
really took your life the last 90 days
and you were doing that for the next
five years
would you be satisfied would you end up
in the spot you wanted to be and if the
answer is no unless you stop that
momentum what's gonna change so the
first big Point here to reinvent
yourself I call this the pain teacher
you need to actually recognize it and
invite it in and learn from it a bit of
a personal story if that's okay I find
that these help you connect dots 10
years ago I was broke living in my mom's
basements uh cold gray Seattle Super
isolated didn't have many friends and I
was just looking around and I saw people
get jobs that they weren't stoked on
commit to relationships that they
weren't stoked on just kind of go on
autopilot like this momentum just took
them and sucked them away and culture
and Society kind of has this like Mantra
well yeah life's a then you die
suck it up right so I went along with it
throughout College you know I worked
jobs that I really didn't like every
Sunday I would just dread getting up for
Mondays they even have a term for that
now it's called what the Sunday scaries
where you're sitting there Sunday night
you're freaking out because you know the
next day you got to do it all over again
then you get that little taste of
freedom on the weekends and let's be
honest most people party so they can't
even enjoy it because they're so
exhausted we have so many chores to do
or so much of life just happens in those
two days because that's for you that's
when you can really live because the
other five days of a week are so drained
by doing things you don't want to do by
working with people you don't choose by
getting up and commuting to a job that
paying the bills but like if you're
honest you wouldn't work I was there too
most people try to numb themselves from
the pain because it's painful drink a
lot they party a lot they just zone out
they watch TV because it puts them in a
hypnotic translate state or social media
their screen times probably like 10
hours a day right and I get it I was
there too but the first way to change
your life is to not numb yourself is to
become conscious of the pain and become
aware of it and so when I really paused
and took an inventory I was like this is
what I don't want right now I'm
experiencing like let me not run away
from this feeling let me channel this
let me like tune into the pain teacher
and what this is trying to teach me so
if you're dissatisfied right now that's
a good thing because you can learn
important lessons that if you don't
forget are some of the strongest
motivation in the same way that if
you're walking on a hot pavement the
pain is telling you to go find some
shade go put on some shoes or you're
gonna burn yourself negative emotions
are a call to action that's all they are
if you have a headache that is a sign
that you should drink water if you have
a pain in your chest sometimes that's a
sign that you are sick in the same way
physical negative pain translates to hey
fix something it's a warning sign it's
like a gauge on your dashboard that
flashes and says pull over check your
engine I think you're mental your
emotional pain that you're experiencing
on a day-to-day the negative feelings
are just another gauge on your dashboard
flashing hey check something change the
momentum dude because until you do until
you become aware of it it's just gonna
continue you're gonna wake up every
Sunday night with the Sunday scaries and
you're just gonna go go go and the
momentum's just gonna carry carry carry
you further and further floating in
space
fire extinguisher into the dark abyss
[Music]
so now that you have what you don't want
you're ready to start tapping into the
fun part step number two is to start
creating this 2.0 vision of yourself the
pleasure who you are in five years if
everything goes right this is what we
call designing a dream character just
like a movie or a game they have
characters in them don't the writers
design them they give them all the
traits storylines quirks uh habits rough
edges that people can connect to with
them before they film the move you need
to do this for yourself what this does
is it allows you to tap into one of the
strongest emotions out there you know
what that is
excitement
real excitement like the reason people
are in a different mood all of December
because Christmas is building up they're
excited they're looking forward to
something the reason people turn it
around when they're in a job and they
got two weeks of vacation coming up and
they like are in a good mood it's
because they're excited about something
the reason that when you fall in love
and that's all you think about is that
person because it's new you're so
excited about them so if you really want
to change your life get really excited
about this new character this new
version of you when I was in my mom's
basement like yeah it sucked and I was
in debt and I was in a lot of pain but I
also got real real excited about the
possibilities and I would see people
online talking about making all this
money and living freedom and digital
Nomad and everything that sounded really
cool and I I would read these books like
the four hour work week and it would
talk about living a life on your terms
and a freedom and it got me so excited I
was like holy cow this is possible this
is what's crazy to me is some people see
that online I think in in this year you
notice the conversation and they say oh
well screw those people they'll be in
such a Negative headspace that that's
not even possible that they could do it
that wasn't never my spot when I didn't
have it I was never like screw that
person for having it I was like holy cow
that's possible that's awesome like you
made 30 Grand in a month I'm making like
maybe two how did you do that teach me
your ways so a sub Point here is when
you start seeing people further ahead on
this path of you never compare never get
like down on yourself that's an example
of how you can Channel excitement right
there in that moment to fuel you instead
of being crushed by it three areas that
you might want to take in this vision of
you work rest and play work what do you
want your job to look like what do you
how do you want to make your money how
much money do you want one thing here
set an aspirational hourly wage when I
was 1.0 Clark in Seattle I set an hourly
rage for a thousand dollars an hour I
was like is the craziest like a thousand
dollars in one hour work that's crazy
that's an example of an aspirational
hourly wage I was making probably ten
dollars an hour rest goals these are
things that you want to be what do you
want your body to look like how do you
want your relationships to look what is
your lifestyle like as this 2.0 you and
your Play Goals these are Adventure
again I set the goal I'd never really
traveled much I wanted to go overseas to
Southeast Asia I wanted to backpack
around I wanted to see the worlds like
the four hour work week was telling me
and it was only in setting that goal
that I was able to tap into the
excitement of that energy and like flash
forward and see myself doing it and be
like oh that looks like fun okay and
then it motivated me to take the actions
and do it the last step of this revisit
this every single morning and every
single evening put it somewhere where
you can see this like dream character of
yourself look at your goals every single
day when I did this for the first time
um I believe it was in Napoleon Hills
Think and Grow Rich that I got it out of
it said set an ideal Target number for
yourself and look at that thing every
morning and every night in fact post it
right above your bed where you can sit
up there and look at it so I did I set a
goal of I want to make ten thousand
dollars in self-generated income by the
end of this year just crazy for me it
was literally a janitor in college I
worked like three jobs at once and I was
just listening to these books on on
audio and so I did I cut out this little
extra wallpaper brick that I had on my
wall to try and make it look fancy and I
wrote by the end of this year I will
make ten thousand dollars of
self-generated income again had no clue
how that was gonna happen and so I
started a podcast time in my life but
what was really crazy to me is at the
end of the year it's time to do taxes
the most fun time of year right and I'm
adding up all the invoices I'm like okay
how much did I make wasn't 11 wasn't
nine I made over ten thousand dollars of
self-generating income by the end of the
year that's when my jaw hit the floor
and I'm like holy crap there's something
to this designing that dream version of
yourself and seeing it every day and
working towards it I started doing
exactly what I'm telling you designed
the 2.0 you write out exactly how you
think feel and act and see it every day
I'm not even kidding conservatively I'd
say 60 of everything I put in that
Vision in college in my little dorm room
when I had nothing has come true not
instantly not without work but it came
true everything from touring
internationally in a professional band
which is just freaking crazy like
opening for some of the biggest names
playing to 30 000 people when I didn't
even have a band being here in a hot
environment in Arizona with a dog and a
relationship on a golf course instead of
like cold gray gloomy Seattle million
YouTube subscribers again I'm not
bragging I'm just like inspiring you
that when you inspire yourself and you
revisit it every day this stuff is crazy
and it works that's what I did in
college and uh it evolved since then we
have this it's called the manifesto this
is something we ship out to every single
one of our metamorphic clients and our
whole program is on that it's like
helping you identify this 2.0 you but
also like shift into it and totally
transform your subconscious mind in 10
weeks pretty cool no pressure but if
you're interested in that and this is
hitting with you resonating I'll link
down below where you can speak to one of
our coaches for free and learn more
[Music]
number three this is the most important
one because not enough to just identify
what you don't want to identify what you
do want you actually have to bridge the
gap let me tell you a quick study
because I think this sums up this point
wonderfully it was 2001 and there was a
group of around 250 people in the UK
they were all trying to get fit get
their six-pack abs back it was Beach
season around the corner I hear there's
some great beaches in London so the
researchers split these people into
three groups group number one didn't do
anything they're just gonna say hey
track how much you work out group number
two what they did to this group is they
said track how much you work out but
also here's some like motivation on why
you should work out on the benefits of
improving your heart health on improved
immune system and like all the other
health benefits they gave them a
motivational talk now this is where it
gets cool because the third group they
did the same rah-rah motivation told
them to track everything but they also
did one more important step they said
hey write a specific time and place that
you're gonna work out by the end of the
study groups one and two thirty five
percent of them worked out at least one
time a week but the third group who had
a specific time and place action plan of
how they were going to make it happen
had a 91
completion rate on one workout a week or
more it's easy for us to listen to the
YouTube videos it's easy for us to read
the self-help books it's easy for us to
go to the motivational events and get
really inspired but unless you have like
a specific action plan of how I hate to
say it but that study shows that it's in
one ear out the other so back to you
what is your plan how are you going to
act to bridge the gap every single day
we're talking about identity shifting
here and this is super powerful because
it's not enough to just design this 2.0
version of you I found that you have to
reinforce that identity by doing
something every day that confirms it so
if the goal is to become a YouTuber well
film writes do your videos every day and
in doing that at first it feels fake
like oh I'm an imposter what I'm gonna
be a YouTuber I don't even have any
videos I don't have any subscribers but
as soon as you start doing the videos
and learning and researching and getting
camera gear and like playing around with
it you eventually start to reinforce the
identity that I this is just something I
do I am a YouTuber I like the principal
ready fire aim most people Ready Aim
Fire but they get caughts in the ready
and the aim and when it comes time to
fire they're like oh is this lined up
perfectly should I should I realign the
site maybe this is the wrong target
that's where they get in their heads you
have to do is ready fire aim yes get
your setup but then you just go and then
you readjust after a lot of people use
Preparation as a form of procrastination
ain't this the truth they say oh I just
gotta prepare a little bit more I gotta
learn a little bit more and then I'll be
motivated to take the action but that's
not actually true because if you're
waiting for motivation to take action
you're going to be waiting for a real
long time true professionals show up
every day regardless of how they if I
had waited till when I felt really
inspired and really like tuned in and
inflow every single time before I filmed
a video I'd still be at like 50 videos
that's just being honest professional
bodybuilders or people who have a really
aesthetic physique will tell you if they
just waited until they felt like working
out pretty much every day they don't
actually feel like working out but
they're professional that's why they get
themselves to go to the gym and then
once they're there they feel motivated
and the workout is business as usual so
don't feel like you have to wait for
motivation to do what you want to do
motivation's sort of a myth in that way
I find that a lot of the motivation
comes from actually taking that first
step ready fire aim if you want some
help on this we're happy to talk to you
a link down below where you can get a
free coaching call with one of our
coaches speaking of taking action
procrastination is one of the biggest
things people say of why they don't so
what I'll do now is I'll link up right
here our guide to being 80 more
productive than most people it's not
what you think we're gonna talk about
how to overcome your procrastination
because at the root of it is not
laziness or that you don't know what to
do I'll see you in that video take care
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