Identity-Based Habits: How to Actually Stick to Your Goals This Year

which means your habits contribute most of the evidence that shapes your identity. In this way, the process of building habits is actually the process of becoming yourself.

attempt to adopt the perspective of your ideal self. Perceive situations through their lens and embody their values through action. Who do you want to become, what actions does that identity perform daily, and how can you integrate that into your current lifestyle regardless of how long you spend on those activities?

Your identity is literally your “repeated beingness.”