Emily McDonald

Like, why do I keep falling off?

And there are, you know, of course, many reasons for why that could be.

But what I've found that most people don't kind of look into is their identity and

And a lot of the time when we're trying to start a new habit or work toward a new goal, we don't see ourselves as the type of person who does that habit or this goal.

And that's detrimental to our ability to do that habit or that goal.

Because yes, you can force and push yourself to do it.

But as soon as maybe you're a little stressed, a little tired, a little unmotivated, don't have the energy, and you fall back into that default mode, well, the default mode network is going to

continue to propel you based on whoever, however you see yourself and your identity.

And so something that I'll always tell people is just like, well, have you shifted your identity?

Have you decided to literally as simply put as this, identify as the version of you who does that?

Have you rewritten the story of who you are to fit this new thing that you're trying to work toward?

And this is another thing that I do every single time I have a new goal or a new kind of level I want to go to is like, okay, for example, writing my book,

In the beginning, I was just procrastinating on starting to write this book.

And every single time I would sit down, like, I'm going to write today.

And I would sit down and then all of a sudden I'm like, oh, I got an idea for a video.

I'm going to go film that.

And then, oh, wait, but those dishes are, I should go clean that or go put that.

And it's just like everything, maybe a podcast episode, you know, everything other than write the book.

And, you know, when I I'm a student of my own work.

So when I go into like, OK, like what's going on here?