An Empowered Identity
When asked: “What is Your Identity“, people generally answer with a name or some family, religious or ethnic background. Some people don’t even have an answer and I must admit, I haven’t had an answer for this for many years. Could this be because I haven’t asked myself the question? My lifestyle is determined by my identity. It controls my mindset and governs my success. Why is this so? What is identity really?
” If you want to see your past, look at your current results. If you want to see you future, look at your current actions ” - old Chinese proverb.
Identity is the word you say after “I am”
Your actions are shaping your future. Likewise your identity is what you say it is. It’s what you tell yourself it is and it is what you tell others about yourself. Many people undermine their own identity by saying derogatory or dis-empowering things about themselves, such as:
- I am a procrastinator
- I can’t afford that
- I am always unlucky
- I can’t do that
- I am unsuccessful
- and so on.
Even worse, some people lower themselves to saying these things about others… but atleast that doesn’t shape your identity, unless you choose to accept their judgement or perception of YOUR identity.
Imagine the effect this has on your self esteem. It undermines the identity of the person verbalising it. The word you say after “I AM” is your identity. Your identity is what you are. And… your identity will shape your future. Do you want good things for your future or bad things? Saying empowering things about yourself (your identity) will shape you into having good results. The opposite applies to saying dis-empowering things. If other people say bad things about you, that’s not so bad. Only if you accept it. Your own words are the truth to you. They can and will have a lasing effect on your identity. Therefore we need to give our self esteem a boost. Be nice to yourself. Say good things!
An Empowered Identity
So why not Empower your Identity? Say good things. Do you know any super successful people that put themselves down? I don’t think so. They believe in themselves. They are in their current place of success because their identity is strong. It’s strong because they told themselves so, in the past. The things they tell themselves now is building their future and I bet it is an even more successful one.
So say empowering things to yourself. Say after me.
- I am an achiever
- I can afford that
- I am lucky
- I can do that
- I am succesful
Add a few if you like. The list goes on…
- I am helpful
- I am grateful
- I am loving
- I am…
You are in your current place because of your past actions. Your future is shaped by your current actions.
These are things I consider as a success communicator. For me to have success, I need to believe in myself. I say nice things about myself and it feels good. Try it!
Here’s to a strong positive identity and the good things that come with it.
Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
SeanRasmussen.com 2004 - 2007