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Why Motivation Fails and Identity Wins
Watch Andreas Tsiartas, founder of Rising with Atlas, on the link between habits and identity. Then try the three-step exercise from the video’s description.
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Try the identity exercise
When a behaviour fits your identity, it feels natural. When it conflicts, you resist, even if you want the outcome.
Start with this question: “What identity am I protecting?”
- Write the identity you are currently living: “I am the kind of person who…”
- Write the identity you want: “I am the kind of person who…”
- Do one small action today that proves the new identity. Small actions become evidence, and evidence changes self-story.
Exercise from Andreas’s original YouTube description.
Understand yourself more deeply
Explore the Self Matrix to connect your physical, cognitive and spiritual self, then use its worked example to think through a decision in your own life.