Why Taking Action Matters: How Your Habits Shape Your Identity
Many women believe they are not taking action because they lack motivation.
They assume if they could just feel more inspired or disciplined, they would finally follow through.
But motivation is rarely the real issue.
The deeper issue is how we think about the actions we say we want to take.
Action Shapes Identity
Action is not just about productivity.
Action shapes identity.
Every time you take an action, you create evidence. That evidence influences what you believe about yourself.
Over time, those beliefs become the identity you live from.
Identity is not fixed. Identity is practiced.
Habits Reflect Belief
Habits are more than behaviors.
They are the physical expression of what you believe about yourself.
If you believe you cannot follow through, your habits will reflect that belief.
If you believe you are becoming someone who keeps her word, your habits will begin to align with that identity.
The Power of Repeated Action
Transformation does not happen through one big decision.
It happens through repeated action.
Every small step builds evidence. Evidence strengthens belief. Belief shapes identity.
This is how real change happens.
Renewing Your Mind
Scripture tells us to be transformed by the renewing of our minds.
When our thinking changes, our actions change.
When our actions change, our lives begin to reflect the identity God designed for us.
Conclusion
You do not have to overhaul your entire life today.
You simply have to start practicing the identity of the woman you want to become.
One action.
One decision.
One renewed thought at a time.
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Welcome to the Christian Life Coach Podcast. I'm Shanna, your Christian life coach.
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I hope women who feel overwhelmed, stretched thin, or stuck in patterns that don't match the life God created them for.
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If you've ever felt that quiet tug, that sense that you were made for more than how you're living right now,
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That's not your imagination.
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That's your spirit craving alignment?
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peace and purpose. Here, we start with identity.
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Because when you know who you are in Christ, you finally know how to show up.
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We talk renewed thoughts,
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Simple habits, emotional resilience, and sustainable rhythms that help you stop surviving on Scraps,
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And start living with intention and courage.
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Jesus said, you are salt and you are light.
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That means you were created to live differently and shine differently from the inside out.
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If you're ready to grow, to simplify, and to become the woman God designed you to be,
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You're in the right place. Life coaching is life-changing, one renewed thought at a time.
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Let's do this together.
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Hello, and welcome!
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to the Christian Life Coach Podcast.
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Many people believe the reason that they are not taking action is because they lack motivation.
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They say things like, I just need to get motivated.
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I just don't feel ready, I need to feel ready. I need more discipline.
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But motivation is not the real issue.
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Last week, we talked about…
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why you aren't taking action.
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We talked about the motivational triad,
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how the brain seeks pleasure,
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Avoids pain, and wants to conserve energy.
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We talked about emotional avoidance and unmanaged thinking.
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And today, we're going…
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a little bit deeper.
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Why?
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we're gonna talk about why taking action
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Actually, even matters.
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Why does it matter what we do?
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Because action isn't just about getting things done,
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Action is…
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shaping who you become.
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And it's also reflecting what you believe.
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So, many people think that identity
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who I am, who you are,
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is fixed. This is just the way I am. I've always been this way. I'm always gonna be this way.
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My mom was like this, my dad was like this, you know.
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And we just think that…
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It's not changeable.
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I'm just not disciplined. I always quit, I never follow through.
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But identity is not fixed.
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It's not set in stone.
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Identity is practiced.
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Every time you take an action,
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you create evidence.
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And evidence…
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Then, influences your belief.
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Your belief…
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becomes your identity.
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Your identity then influences your future behavior.
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And I think this sounds a little kind of, like, up in the… up in the air, kind of.
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or up in the sky, like, higher level, but we'll get… we will definitely get into it.
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Action doesn't just produce results.
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It produces identity.
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You're always becoming someone.
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through what you repeatedly do.
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Our habits…
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our identity in motion.
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Most people think that habits are just things we do. They're just behaviors. Drink water, exercise, read,
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Wake up early, but habits are much deeper than that.
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Habits are the physical expression of what you believe.
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to be true about yourself.
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Let me say that again, because this is so important.
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Habits are the physical expression.
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of what you believe to be true about yourself.
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They are identity in motion.
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Your habits are the visible evidence
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of the identity.
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that you're practicing.
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If you practice
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Following through, your brain is collecting
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evidence that says, I… I keep my word. I'm a person that honors my word.
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I follow through. I do hard things.
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And… if you repeatedly
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practice breaking your commitments, your brain is collecting
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evidence in the opposite direction. I always quit.
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I can't trust myself. I never stick with things.
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I never follow through. So habits are not just actions,
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They are shaping your identity while at the same time reflecting your identity.
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Most people try to change habits through the use of goals.
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Which, there's nothing wrong with that. I love goals. I set 90-day goals.
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every quarter.
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And I also know that it's not about the goal,
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It's about who I'm becoming in pursuit of the goal.
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So, a lot of people set goals,
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to…
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get fit and exercise more, or eat healthier.
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And the goal…
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becomes the focus.
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But identity-based habits…
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sound different. Instead of saying, I want to read more, I want to work out, I want to eat healthier…
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you say…
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I'm becoming a reader, or I… I'm becoming someone that takes care of my body.
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or I'm becoming a woman who keeps her word.
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And when your actions reinforce that identity,
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they become more sustainable.
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Because we're not just focusing on completing tasks.
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getting things done.
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being productive, or practicing who we're becoming.
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We're… we're embracing.
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that identity that we want.
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to be true.
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there's a famous quote that's often attributed to Aristotle, but it's actually
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it is, I think, a collection of
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Aristotle's…
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teachings that Will Durant encapsulated into this quote, and it is…
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You are what you repeatedly do.
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Excellence, then, is not an act.
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But a habit.
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And this kind of captures the whole idea. Your life is not being shaped by one big decision.
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It's shaped by repeated choices that you practice over and over again.
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Small, daily actions.
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repeated, I like to say, practiced.
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Habits, and those habits become your identity.
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And this all…
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Um, it all ties back to the creation cycle.
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Which I have talked about a lot. It's the… it's the foundational tool that I use.
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in my coaching.
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Your actions are not random.
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Your actions are driven
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by your thoughts.
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And your beliefs…
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what you believe…
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is…
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or your beliefs are.
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collections of thoughts.
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that you have accepted to be true.
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So… your belief…
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about God.
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is your decision.
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to believe that…
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what the Bible says is true.
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And the collection of the thoughts that you repeatedly remind yourself of, that you
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that you have accepted as truth shape your beliefs.
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That is what your belief is.
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The things that you think about yourself…
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the thoughts that you have about yourself.
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are your… your belief.
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about you.
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So, your thoughts are collections of beliefs,
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that create feelings, they generate…
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Your thoughts generate emotions or feelings within you.
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And your feelings drive your actions.
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And the actions that you take create the results.
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that you experience, that you live.
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how much you weigh, the state of your marriage, how you relate to your children.
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your… your results, the relationship that you have.
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So when we talk about
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identity-based habits, we're really talking about
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belief-based
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behavior. Your habits…
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reveal what you believe.
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And I am not gonna lie…
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Anytime I hear that said,
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or I say it myself, it's kind of like…
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Oh my goodness. So…
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it really makes me want to examine
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What am I doing? What are the actions that I'm taking? What are my habits?
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how do I speak?
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Because all of those things that I'm doing
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are a result, they are a direct result of what I believe.
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So if I'm acting in a way…
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that doesn't reflect the person that I want to be.
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then I am not believing that I'm her.
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And this is…
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For a, you know, for a 20-ish minute podcast.
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you can't really go that deep into this, but this is… this is really…
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kind of the crux of what I do in coaching with women.
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is identity. Who do you believe you are? Because that determines the actions that you take.
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And those actions create your life experience.
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what the living conditions, the situations,
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are within… with…
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As much as is in our control,
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There are circumstances that are outside of our control, but within our control,
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who we are, the life that we are living,
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is determined by what we believe.
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Because what we believe…
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determines how we behave.
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And this is in life, it's health,
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weight, fitness, relationships, finances, jobs, careers,
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Family dynamics, parenting,
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business building. It's… it's all the same work.
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And if… I'm just gonna say now, if this is something that kind of has piqued your interest in, like, okay, I… I feel like I might need to dive more into this,
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Go schedule a RightFit call with me.
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There will be a link in the show notes.
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And let's talk about how coaching
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can help you to…
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Discover what you really believe,
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And then decide if that's what you want to keep believing, to keep having the same life that you're experiencing.
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Okay, back to… back to the teaching.
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So the crease… I just went through the creation cycle, so it looks something like this, and we're… we're simplifying it.
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to, um, to make it easy to kind of picture.
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So, the circumstance…
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Your alarm goes off at 6am.
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And if you're thinking, ugh, this is miserable…
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then you feel dread.
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And you… the action that you take is you hit the snooze,
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And the result is you're reinforcing inconsistency.
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you're reinforcing…
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what you don't actually want.
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But you believe that it's miserable.
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You believe that you're not a person that gets up at 6 o'clock in the morning to go work out.
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Now, from a different belief, the alarm goes off at 6am,
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And you think, and you… it's not automatic. It's not… it doesn't just pop in your head.
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practicing thinking. You're reminding yourself…
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to think the way that you want to think.
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to reinforce the belief that you want to reinforce.
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So, your alarm goes off, and you think,
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I'm beca- well, you might think at first this is miserable, and then you remind yourself, oh wait,
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I'm working on believing
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differently.
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I'm becoming someone who keeps her word.
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And you might feel…
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determination.
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Which leads you…
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to throw the covers off and put your feet on the floor and get up.
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And the result is…
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you are gathering evidence of self-discipline.
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You're gathering evidence that you follow through, that you do what you say you're going to do.
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Same circumstance, the alarm goes off, same thing.
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But it's a different belief.
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And the result is different.
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So what you believe…
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determines how you behave.
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And our beliefs are just the thoughts that we tell ourself,
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on repeat that we have accepted as truth.
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So…
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Managing our mind.
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thinking about what we're thinking about and deciding on purpose what we want to think.
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changes everything.
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Another…
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Another way to help
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to take the action that we want to take.
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And why the action matters, really,
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is because of the reason that we want to do it.
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It's really… it's not that I want to get on the treadmill.
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Because I can promise you, I…
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I generally don't want to get on the treadmill.
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But I want…
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To be physically stronger.
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I want my heart
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my, um… my heart system… what's it called?
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My cardiovascular system to be strong. I want to build endurance. I want to have energy.
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And so, the reason behind the action that you want to take
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matters.
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And how you think about the action that you want to take determines whether you're going to keep doing it or not.
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So if you don't have good reasons…
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for wanting to do the thing.
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And remind yourself of them.
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Your brain is going to resist
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the discomfort. There's going to be resistance.
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So, if you're thinking, I should work out, I should eat better,
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Just remember that the word should…
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often equates to shame. Should equal shame.
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And if I'm telling myself that I should do it, there's a level of shame in there.
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And I'm probably not gonna do it.
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But when you remind yourself of the reason behind what it is that you're telling yourself you should do,
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then the action becomes more meaningful.
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And you can just change that should.
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to want. I want to work out.
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I want to eat better.
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Because I want to feel better.
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I want more energy.
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I want to be stronger.
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I want to be able to play with my grandkids.
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So when you remind yourself of the reason,
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The action becomes more meaningful.
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I steward my body because it's a gift of God.
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I'm building a life of integrity.
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I'm becoming a woman who keeps her word.
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Now the action, that thing that you want to do, has purpose behind it.
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it aligns with the identity.
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that you know is your true identity.
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it becomes more meaningful.
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Our action…
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is stewardship. How are we stewarding
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The gifts that God has given us, the time
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the resources, the energy,
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That our gifts, our opportunities,
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That is how we…
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how we use those things.
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is stewarding. Are we stewarding well?
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And the Bible tells us to be transformed by the renewing of our mind, the transformation is not passive.
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God is sovereign,
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And he is going to do the work.
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But we also have to participate in it. We are called to renew our thoughts.
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be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
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That is on us. Renewing our mind is our…
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responsibility.
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When we are thinking on purpose,
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choosing beliefs on purpose that align with who we want to be, who God says we are.
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Who we believe that God
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created us to be, then we take
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actions that align with those beliefs.
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And over time, as you repeatedly practice taking those actions,
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that align with the beliefs.
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That we are who God says we are.
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Over time, our life changes.
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And we're stewarding
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our gifts well. And we're not working to earn worth. I cannot say this enough, I say it all the time. You are not…
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working to earn your worth.
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Or to prove your worth.
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You are already worthy.
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Your worth is fixed. It's set.
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Jesus said.
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your worth.
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We can never earn it.
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we want to live in alignment with it.
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We want to live…
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lives…
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that are from a place of knowing
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our value.
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And knowing where our value comes from.
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And each time we take
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action, despite the resistance that we feel, each time you get up,
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When that alarm goes off at 6 AM, despite the resistance, despite the discomfort,
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you're weakening your default patterns,
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that are established by the Motivational Triad.
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Your brain learns. We do hard things. We keep our word.
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And consistency builds new pathways in the brain.
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It's neuroplasticity.
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The more that we are taking that action against the resistance,
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We're building pathways. We're, like, digging trenches in our brain.
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And it's harder when you start, and the more you do it, the easier it becomes.
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I love the quote that says,
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When we do… when we do easy things, life gets hard.
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And when we do hard things, life gets easier.
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So good. Okay, so…
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Your… your, um, assignment for the week is to identify one action
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that you've been avoiding. What is something that aligns with who you want to be?
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that maybe you've been saying, I really should do that.
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Okay, I'm gonna start doing that, and you just… you've kind of…
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you talk about it, you think about it,
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But you've kind of been avoiding doing it.
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What is the belief?
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that you've been operating from? What is the belief that keeps you avoiding doing that thing?
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And then, what belief…
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would help you to take that action.
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For example, the old belief…
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I hate mornings. I'm not a morning person.
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And the new belief is, I'm becoming someone who keeps her word.
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I said I'm gonna get up at 6 o'clock so I can get on the treadmill or go for a walk, or whatever it is.
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get up and do devotions.
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I'm becoming a woman who keeps her word.
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I'm getting up at 6. I'm gonna do the thing.
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And then take that action.
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practice becoming the person that you want to be.
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So here are the things, the three things I want you to remember. Your habits,
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reveal what you believe to be true.
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Your repeated actions.
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Which are habits. Create your identity.
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So what you believe to be true…
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directs your habits, and your habits create your identity. When you change your thinking, you change your life.
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You don't need to become perfect overnight, it's not about perfection. It's never about perfection.
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You just need to begin practicing the identity of the woman you want to become.
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One action at a time, one decision at a time, one renewed thought at a time.
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And remember that life coaching?
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is life-changing. That one renewed thought at a time. Thank you so much for being here.
