HOW DO YOU LABEL YOURSELF?

To make any lasting change in your life you need to change your story and believe it. Your new story will put you on a new trajectory, a new journey.

You are the star of your story and your identity is made of the labels you give yourself and others give you.

To shift your identity you have to relabel yourself and 100% believe in your new labels.  These new labels are the new you and are part of your new self-fulfilling prophecy. To become the new person you need to start living the new story.

Just over two years ago I was an ‘overweight drinker’, that was one of my old labels. Really nice, isn’t it. You can see the power of this stuff.

As long as I continued drinking I was ‘a fat bloke who liked a glass of wine’. I really did not want to be that. The new me was a leaner machine, the guy who walks 9KM every day, the guy with no anxiety, sleeps like a baby, feels great, loves life, is grateful for everything around him, helps others, is a student of life. Wow I loved my new labels!

The way I achieved this identity shift to successfully change my story was through writing down my old and new labels. Here are some of the items in my lists:

I created a compelling future for myself. Every day I told myself who I am. ‘I am a non-drinker; I am healthy’. This reinforced my new story. Compelling future statements can be incredibly powerful. Just look at what President John F Kennedy told the American people in 1960. He said the USA would put a man on the moon by the end of that decade. That was a compelling future. And they did it.

I had to see everything as real: ‘I am sober’; ‘I am a great dad’. This is how I shifted my identity.

My book Walking Back To Happiness The Secret To Alcohol-free Living & Well-being, shows you how I changed my story and found happiness and well-being and how you can to. Packed with over 70 exercises or steps you can take to improve your well-being and happiness, it’s a blueprint of how to live your best life! https://www.amazon.co.uk/Nigel-Jones/e/B0B7RP6LH6/

STEPS YOU CAN TAKE…

OLD & NEW IDENTITY

Write down the person you want to become by listing:

• The old traits and values to banish from your identity. For example, ‘I am a drinker’.
• The traits that you want to keep. For example, ‘I am hard working’.
• The new traits and values to build on or add to your identity. For example, ‘I am sober.’
• Write down your compelling future.

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