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Manifestation Is the Evidence: The Law of Identity Transformation · Revolution of Purpose Podcast

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Welcome to the Revolution of Purpose podcast.
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I'm your host, Jon Street,
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Have you ever noticed that two people
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can read the same book, attend the same seminar,
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pray the same prayers, even listen to the same podcast,
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and yet one person gets it?
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Like, their life is completely transformed,
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and yet the other person's life barely changes at all.
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Why is that?
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For years, I've been fascinated by that question.
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Why does one person change?
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Why does one person just seem to transform their life,
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give the information, and turn over a new leaf
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while someone else stays stuck?
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Well, what if the answer isn't found in what they learned,
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but is found in who they became?
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You see, as a coach, I've had the privilege
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of walking alongside people as they transform their lives,
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their marriages, their health, their businesses,
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their finances, perhaps most importantly,
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transform themselves, and I've also watched people
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with just as much desire, just as much talent,
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who've read the books, who've done the affirmations.
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They have just as much potential,
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yet for some reason they stay stuck.
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So what is the difference?
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I have observed what I believe is a universal principle,
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a pattern that seems to show up
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whether I'm studying scripture, psychology,
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neuroscience, human behavior,
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or simply watching people's lives transform,
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and today I want to share that with you.
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I have come to call this the law of identity transformation,
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and now before you hear the word law and think,
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okay, John's claiming he's discovered a new law now,
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and no one's ever said this before,
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that's not exactly what I'm saying.
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What I am saying is that after years
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of studying great thinkers, coaching hundreds of people,
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experiencing transformation in my own life,
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I keep seeing the same patterns emerge.
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Different teachers describe different parts of it,
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different disciplines use different language,
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different traditions emphasize different pieces,
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but underneath all of it, I believe they're pointing
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to the same universal principle, and here's the principle.
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Manifestation isn't something that you hope for.
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It is the byproduct of becoming someone different.
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I want that to sink in.
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Manifestation isn't something you hope for.
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It is the byproduct of becoming someone different.
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I want that to sink in because I think we have spent
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a lot of time asking the wrong question.
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We've asked, how do I manifest more money?
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How do I manifest the right relationship?
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How do I manifest success?
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And my friends, those are not bad questions.
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Those are life questions.
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Those are questions that we need.
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They're things we're told that we can manifest.
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They're not bad questions, they're just incomplete.
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I think the better question is this, who am I becoming?
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Because I don't believe our lives
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consistently reflect what we want.
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I believe that they consistently reflect
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who we are becoming, and today I want to show you
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why I believe transformation follows
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a remarkably consistent pattern,
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and this is a pattern that has changed my life.
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It is a pattern that I've watched change the lives
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of so many other people, even when they didn't realize
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they were living this pattern.
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I have had the privilege of coaching people
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who have made major changes in life
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following this exact pattern,
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and I know it can change yours as well.
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So I want to begin with a confession.
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For years, if someone asked me, John, what do you want?
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Well, I probably would have answered with a list.
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You know, I was like, well, I want to be happier,
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or I want to be healthier.
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I want a better marriage.
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I want financial freedom.
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I want to make a greater impact in the world.
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I want to write books.
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I want to speak around the world.
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I want to help people discover their purpose,
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and friends, there is nothing wrong
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with any of those desires.
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Like, there's nothing wrong with that list,
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and in fact, many of them, thankfully,
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have already become reality, but looking back,
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I realize I'm asking the wrong questions.
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Not a bad question.
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It's just an incomplete question,
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because the better question is not, what do I want?
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The better question is, who am I becoming?
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Think about it.
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Every one of us knows people who wanted a better marriage,
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but maybe they didn't become a better spouse,
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or people who wanted to become financially free,
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but they never became someone
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who consistently managed money wisely,
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or maybe we've known people who wanted to get healthy,
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but sadly, they just never became someone
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who lived a healthy lifestyle,
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people who wanted peace, but never became someone
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who practiced peace in their daily life.
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You see, we all want the fruit,
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but we often overlook the tree,
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and fruit doesn't appear because we wish for it.
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Fruit appears because of the nature
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of the tree that produces it,
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and I think that is something that holds true spiritually.
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It is true psychologically.
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It is true biologically, and it is true in everyday life.
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You know, I come from the Christian religion,
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and looking back at what Jesus said,
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a good tree cannot bear bad fruit,
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and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit.
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He wasn't talking just about behavior there.
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He was talking about nature,
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the very nature of the tree,
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about identity, about becoming.
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The fruit simply reveals what the tree is,
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and I think neuroscience points us in the same direction.
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Our brains are constantly strengthening
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the neural pathways that we use most often.
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The more we think, the more we choose,
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the more we act in a certain way,
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the more natural these patterns become.
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Over time, those repeated patterns
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don't just shape our habits.
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They begin shaping the way we see ourselves.
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That's why Bob Proctor used to say,
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if you can see it in your mind,
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you can hold it in your hand,
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and isn't that exactly what happens in life?
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Like, the person who consistently keeps their promises
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begins to see themselves as trustworthy
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because they have trained their neural pathways
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in their mind as someone who keeps their promises.
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The person who repeatedly shows courage
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begins to think, I am a courageous person.
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The person who keeps choosing generosity
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begins to see generosity as part of who they are.
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They are that tree that is producing
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the fruit of generosity.
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Identity is not built in just a single moment.
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It is built through repeated moments,
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and that's why I believe
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we have misunderstood manifestation.
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I think that's why so many people say the affirmations.
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They think what they want,
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but they don't hold it in their hand,
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and it's because we've treated manifestation
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like that is the destination,
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but I think it's not the destination.
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I think manifestation is more like the dashboard,
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if we're using a car analogy.
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It is more like an indicator.
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I think a better word for it
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is manifestation is the evidence.
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It is showing us what's happening beneath the surface,
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because long before your circumstances change,
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your identity has already begun to change,
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whether you're doing it on purpose or not,
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and that's why I believe manifestation isn't the miracle.
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Transformation is the miracle.
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Manifestation is simply the evidence
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that transformation has already taken place.
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Manifestation is evidence, not merely wishful thinking.
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Let me show you what I mean.
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Many of you know part of my story.
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A few years ago, I weighed over 350 pounds,
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and today I've lost over 100 pounds.
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Sometimes I've lost 110, sometimes it's 120.
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It depends on the day,
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but thankfully I'm much healthier than I used to be,
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and sometimes people ask me, John, how did you do it?
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And I could answer by talking about nutrition.
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I could answer about talking about my personal trainer.
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If you see the podcast where I interviewed Jordan Wilson,
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you check it out.
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It's an amazing podcast.
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He's flowing in his purpose,
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helping people around the world lose weight,
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and he's a huge part of that.
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I could answer about exercise or calories
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or walking or strength training,
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and every single one of those things mattered,
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but they weren't the deepest reason my life changed.
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No, my life transformed
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on something that was way beyond physical.
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It was personal.
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It was my identity that transformed.
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You see, I didn't wake up one morning
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believing that I was a healthy person.
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If I'm being brutally honest,
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I spent years and years and years
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identifying as someone who struggled with food.
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My neuropathways were locked in
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that I was a sugar addict, I was a food addict.
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I could never get thin.
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I could never be healthy.
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My parents had heart disease, so I would have heart disease.
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My parents had diabetes, so I would have diabetes,
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and so it was a really difficult thing
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to transform my mindset,
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but someone who starts diets and couldn't stick with them
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has to finally stop looking at everything
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by what I was believing.
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I had to stop believing all of my past
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and start looking at things in my present,
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and so I started making choices,
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and my identity started to be shaped by those new choices.
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My new choices started to reinforce my new identity,
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and from there, it was a spiral.
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From there, I got momentum.
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You know, last week,
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if you watched that solo show last week,
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you'll see where I talked about this momentum spiral
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and how all of a sudden we can take certain actions,
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and they'll lead us to believe that we're that person,
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so we take more actions, and then we get the results.
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Well, that's exactly what happened to me,
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and it didn't happen all at once.
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It didn't happen overnight.
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It started with taking a walk.
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It started with taking a walk and then another walk.
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It started with taking one healthier choice
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and then making another healthier choice and then another,
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and I didn't even realize at the time
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that every one of those actions was casting a vote,
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not just a vote for better health,
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but a vote for a different identity,
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and then eventually,
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I wasn't forcing myself to take a walk anymore.
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Eventually, walking just became part of who I was,
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and then eventually, I wasn't trying to eat better.
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I just started making better decisions with my eating.
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Eventually, I wasn't pushing
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to drink all the water I had to drink.
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I just started drinking more and more water.
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I wasn't trying to make healthy choices.
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Healthy choices just became natural
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because I was rewiring my neural pathways.
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I was shifting my identity,
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and that's when I realized something.
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The weight loss was not creating the new John.
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The new John was creating the weight loss.
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I want you to hear that again.
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The weight loss was not creating the new John.
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The new John was creating the weight loss.
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The scale did not change my identity.
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My identity changed what the scale
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eventually revealed about me.
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This transformation happened on the inside
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long before it became visible on the outside.
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The scale simply revealed
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what had already been happening beneath the surface,
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and I wonder how many areas of our lives
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work exactly that same way.
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Maybe the successful entrepreneur
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didn't manifest a thriving business.
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Maybe they became someone who constantly solved problems
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and served people and persevered through failure.
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Maybe the thriving marriage wasn't just manifested.
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Maybe it was created by two people
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who became more patient or more forgiving,
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more intentional about planning their date nights,
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more loving by sending notes to each other.
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Maybe confidence isn't something that we receive.
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Maybe confidence is something that grows
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every time we keep that promise to ourselves.
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The external life eventually catches up
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with the internal life,
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and that's why I believe manifestation is not just magic.
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It is not just wishful thinking.
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It is certainly positive thinking,
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but not just positive thinking.
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Manifestation is what becomes visible
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when identity has been transforming beneath the surface.
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You see, it is the fruit, not the root.
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Manifestation is the evidence, not the cause,
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which means if we become obsessed
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with chasing the manifestation,
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obsessed with chasing the fruit
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without nurturing the roots,
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we'll spend our lives wondering
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why nothing lasting ever changes,
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because real transformation always begins
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beneath the surface.
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It begins with who we're becoming.
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So if manifestation is the evidence
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and identity transformation is the miracle here,
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then obvious question becomes,
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how does identity actually change?
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As I've begun studying this question,
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I started noticing something fascinating.
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Whether I was reading psychology, studying neuroscience,
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reading scripture, learning from great coaches,
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from great philosophers, great teachers,
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or simply watching my coaching clients
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as they transform their lives,
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the same pattern keeps appearing
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over and over and over again.
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It's different language, it's different examples,
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but it's the same fingerprint.
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And that's when I realized
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I wasn't just seeing isolated ideas,
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I was seeing a process.
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And this is a process that I now call
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the Law of Identity Transformation.
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And I believe it unfolds in four movements
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that I have consistently observed.
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These aren't rigid steps.
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They're more like an upward spiral,
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each one strengthening the next.
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This first movement is awaken.
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Every transformation begins with an awakening.
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Something disrupts that old way of seeing things.
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Maybe it's pain, maybe it's inspiration,
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maybe it's heartbreak, maybe it's reading a book,
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hearing a podcast or losing your job.
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It can be becoming a parent,
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receiving a difficult health diagnosis,
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or simply waking up one morning
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and realizing I cannot live like this anymore.
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Somewhere there is an emotional catalyst.
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Bob Proctor used to say,
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we shift our paradigm through repetition of thought
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and through emotional catalyst.
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Awakening is the moment possibility enters the room.
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It's when you begin seeing
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that another way of living might actually exist.
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For me, there were several awakenings.
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Walking away from a successful career
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because I knew that I wasn't living my purpose.
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That was an awakening.
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Realizing that I had built a life
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that looked successful from the outside,
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but I did not feel alive on the inside.
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That was an awakening.
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Recognizing that I couldn't continue treating my body
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the way I had been.
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That was an awakening.
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Every transformation in my life started with an awakening,
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but awakening is not enough.
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Awareness is amazing and it's essential,
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but it alone does not change your life.
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Awareness just opens the door to say,
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okay, God, okay, universe, you can come in.
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You can show me who I am.
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You can awaken at my depths who I am
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and I'm gonna become that thing.
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And that's exactly what it leads to.
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It leads to the becoming.
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And the becoming is where your identity begins to shift.
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And notice I didn't say your behavior is how it shifts.
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I said, your becoming is how it shifts
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because before your life changes,
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something inside of you begins changing.
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You begin seeing yourself differently,
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not because you've arrived,
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but because you've chosen a new direction.
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You stop saying things like, I'm trying to get healthy.
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And you begin saying,
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I've become someone who values my health.
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You stop saying, I'm trying to be courageous.
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And instead you start saying,
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I have become someone who chooses courage.
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You stop chasing behaviors and you start embracing identity.
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And here's where neuroscience becomes fascinating
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because our brains are constantly updating our sense of self
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based on our repeated experience.
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So every time you choose an alignment
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with your future identity,
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you are strengthening not only a habit,
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but a belief about who you are.
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That's why James Clear's words are so profound.
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He writes, every action you take is a vote
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for the type of person that you wish to become.
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And when I first read that,
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I thought he was just talking about habits, you know?
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But now I realize he's describing identity transformation.
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Every aligned choice says to your brain,
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this is who I am now.
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Not perfectly, but progressively.
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Not instantly, but consistently.
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And over time, something remarkable will happen.
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You stop acting like the person
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that you're trying to become
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because you have become that person.
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That's why identity transformation is not about pretending,
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it is about positive thinking.
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It isn't about repeating affirmations
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that you don't believe,
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it is about becoming that person
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who believes you are this person.
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One aligned choice at a time.
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And that naturally leads us to this third movement.
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Alignment.
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The third movement is aligned.
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This is where transformation becomes visible
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in your daily life.
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Because here's the truth,
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it isn't enough to awaken.
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It isn't enough to decide who you want to become.
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Eventually, your life has to come into alignment
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with that identity.
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Your thoughts, your choices, your habits,
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your relationships, your dog right here,
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your calendar, your finances, your words, your actions,
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they all begin moving in the same direction.
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And I think this is where so many people get frustrated
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because they have a vision,
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but they haven't built a life that supports that vision.
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They're trying to create one thing
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while consistently living something else.
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And that, my friends, is exhausting.
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Alignment is where peace lives.
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Alignment is where integrity is born.
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The word integrity comes from the idea of being whole,
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of all the pieces fitting together.
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When your identity and your actions agree,
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life begins to change.
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And not just because suddenly things feel easier,
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but because you're no longer fighting yourself.
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You're rowing in one direction.
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Your inner world and your outer world
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begin telling the same story.
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And here's what's beautiful.
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Alignment doesn't require perfection.
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It requires direction.
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You're going to have bad days.
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I still do.
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You're going to make mistakes.
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I certainly still do.
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You're going to have moments where fear just wins,
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where you just have trouble
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getting out of that fear mindset.
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And I've been there too.
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But the thing that gets you through that is your identity
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because it keeps calling you back.
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Not through shame, but through confidence,
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through congruence, through that knowing
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that you can flow in alignment and who you are.
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Because once you've become someone new,
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living like the old version of yourself
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starts feeling totally uncomfortable.
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My brother loves to use the term,
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once that bell's been rung, it can't be unrung.
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And that right there
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describes identity transformation to a T.
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You can't go back once you've become
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who you know you're meant to be.
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And eventually, alignment begins
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producing something remarkable.
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Eventually, alignment leads us
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to the fourth and final movement,
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creation.
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Notice I didn't say it leads us to manifestation
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because I think creation is deeper than manifestation.
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Creation is what naturally flows from an aligned identity.
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You don't force it.
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You don't chase it.
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You don't manipulate it.
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You create because creation has become
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a natural expression of who you are.
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A healthy person naturally creates healthier choices.
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A generous person naturally creates generosity.
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A courageous person naturally creates
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create courageous conversations.
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A purpose-driven person naturally creates meaningful work.
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And yes, as your identity transforms,
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your circumstances often begin transforming too.
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Opportunities appear, relationships deepen,
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influence grows, peace increases,
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abundance expands, and from the outside,
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someone might look at your life and say,
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wow, you really manifested all of that.
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And you did, but you know something that they don't.
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You didn't spend your life chasing the manifestation,
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chasing the outcome, chasing the fruit.
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You spent your life becoming someone
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capable of creating those outcomes.
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And that's why I believe manifestation cannot be the goal.
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Identity transformation has to be the goal
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because that's what brings about the manifestation.
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Manifestation is simply one consequence.
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In fact, I would go even further
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and say manifestation isn't like step one.
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It's step four.
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It isn't where transformation begins.
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It's where transformation becomes visible
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to the outside world.
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The fruit simply reveals the health of the tree.
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The harvest reveals the quality of the seed.
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The external life reveals what has been happening
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internally all along.
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And when you begin to understand that, everything changes.
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You stop obsessing over the outcomes
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and you start investing in the person
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who's creating those outcomes
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because at the end of the day,
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the life you consistently create
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will always reflect the identity
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that you consistently cultivate.
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Truth leaves fingerprints.
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As I've been studying this principle
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and really deep diving into all of this teaching,
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something beautiful has happened.
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I've started seeing fingerprints like everywhere.
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James Clear observed that every action is a vote
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for the type of person you wish to become.
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That's a fingerprint.
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Maxwell Maltz taught that our self-image
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shapes our behavior.
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That's a fingerprint.
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John Maxwell reminds us that leadership is developed
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not simply given.
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That's a fingerprint.
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Neuroscience shows us that repeated thoughts
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and behaviors literally reshape the brain.
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Jesus taught that the fruit reveals the nature of the tree.
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Throughout history, spiritual teachers and philosophers,
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psychologists and scientists,
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mindset coaches and motivational speakers
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have all been pointing toward one thing.
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It may be a different language.
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It may be different words to say it.
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It could be different illustrations, different perspectives,
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but I believe that they were all noticing
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this same fingerprint.
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And that's led me to the simple belief
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that I hope you'll carry with you
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long after this episode ends.
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Truth is too big to belong to one discipline.
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Truth is too big to belong to one discipline.
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If something is true,
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then you should expect to find evidence in multiple places.
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And that's exactly what I found
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with this law of identity transformation.
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Not because everyone agrees on every single detail,
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because they don't.
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These are often multiple competing camps.
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I'm talking about things that I'm seeing
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in religion and science,
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things that I'm seeing in motivational speakers
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and mindset coaches.
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But because truth has a way of leaving fingerprints,
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and once you begin seeing those fingerprints,
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you can't unsee them.
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Once that bell's been rung, it can't be unrung.
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You notice these fingerprints in conversations.
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You notice God, the universe,
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pointing us toward this truth in books,
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in scripture, in other religions,
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in science, in your relationships,
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in your success, in your failures, even.
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Because every experience is asking the same question,
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and it's not, what do you want?
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It is, who are you becoming?
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It is not, what do you want to manifest?
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It is, who are you becoming?
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It is not, what is the list of things you wish you had?
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It is, who are you becoming?
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That, my friends, is the question that changes everything.
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Because the moment you stop chasing those outcomes
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and you start investing in your identity,
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your life begins moving in a different direction.
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You begin awakening.
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You begin becoming.
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You begin aligning.
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And then almost as naturally
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as an apple tree produces apples,
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you begin creating.
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Not because you forced it.
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Not because you wished hard enough.
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Not because you mastered some secret formula.
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But because creation is simply the natural overflow
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of who you have become.
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And that's why manifestation isn't the goal.
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Identity transformation is the goal.
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And manifestation is a consequence of that goal.
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So this week, I just want to challenge you.
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Manifest anything you want
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by deciding you're gonna change who you are.
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I don't want you to make a list
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of what car you're gonna drive.
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I want you to make a decision
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of who you are that drives that car.
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I don't want you to make a list
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of what dream house you want.
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I want you to ask yourself,
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who am I that lives in this dream house?
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I want you to challenge yourself to become someone.
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Not just to do the actions.
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Not just to start the habits.
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Not just to go to the gym,
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but be the person that goes to the gym.
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I want to challenge you to become someone
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and ask yourself, who am I becoming?
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And then tomorrow morning, choose one action.
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Choose one conversation.
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Make one decision.
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Start one habit that is aligned
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with the person that you're becoming.
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Because every one of these choices
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is shaping your identity.
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And your identity will shape the life
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that you consistently create.
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Before we wrap up, I just want you to know,
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I would love to hear from you about this.
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If this episode gave you a new perspective
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on transformation, if it helped you see manifestation,
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identity, or purpose in a different way,
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please leave me a comment below.
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Has this conversation changed the way
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you think about transformation?
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Has it changed the way you look
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at the principle of be, do, have?
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Has it opened your eyes to how you can begin
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practicing what I call the law of identity transformation?
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Or maybe you're already seeing
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what you've talked about today.
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Maybe you're noticing what I call
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the fingerprints of truth in your own life.
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I would genuinely love to hear your thoughts
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because this conversation is just beginning.
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I believe we're going to keep exploring
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this principle together in future episodes
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and I would love for you to be a part
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of shaping that conversation.
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Until next time, remember,
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your purpose isn't about something you find.
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It is something you choose to live,
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something that you awaken to.
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So go become that someone and watch what you create
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and that creation will manifest your dreams.
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Go today and take another step
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in your own revolution of purpose.
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Thank you for watching.
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Go make today another step
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in your own revolution of purpose.