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

Building these habits means focusing on the type of person you wish to become rather than the outcome you wish to achieve.

Your current behaviors are simply a reflection of your current identity. To change your behavior for good, you need to start believing new things about yourself. 

• Outcomes: changing your results - losing weight, publishing a book, etc.
• Process: changing your habits and systems - implementing a new routine at the gym, developing a meditation practice, etc.
• Identity: changing your beliefs - worldview, self-image, judgments.

1. Decide the type of person you want to be;
2. Prove it to yourself with small wins;

You have to become the type of person you want to be, and that starts with proving your new identity to yourself.