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❤️🔥 THE DAILY CHASE #99
Identity Through Action
"I'm not the type of person who can do a pull-up."
This sentence reveals everything wrong with how we think about capability. We treat our current limitations as permanent features of our identity, then act in ways that make those limitations true.
Our friend Marcus Wilson told us the story of a woman who said this when they worked together at NOBULL.
She wasn't physically incapable of developing the strength for a pull-up. She had simply decided that pull-ups belonged to other people — stronger people, different people. Not her.
But identity isn't fixed. It's constructed through repeated actions.
When she started spending fifteen minutes a day working on assisted pull-ups, something shifted. She began identifying as someone who trains for pull-ups. Someone who shows up consistently. Someone who works on hard things.
Eventually, she became someone who teaches others how to do pull-ups.
This is how identity change actually works. Not through positive thinking or vision boards, but through taking actions that contradict your old story about yourself. Every time you act inconsistently with your current identity, you create evidence for a new one.
If you think you're undisciplined, do one disciplined thing. Then do another.
If you think you're not athletic, move your body consistently.
If you think you're not creative, create something small each day.
Your identity follows your actions, not the other way around. You don't need to believe you're disciplined before you act disciplined. You act disciplined until you become disciplined.
The question isn't who you are. The question is who you're becoming through what you do today.
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Until then, keep on chasing.
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