After last week’s newsletter, I got a few responses asking to go deeper into creating a new identity.

So this is what this newsletter is addressing.

(If you haven’t read the previous newsletter I recommend you do so before reading this one)

Let’s get into it.

Creating Your 2.0 Self

Step 1: Set Your Sights

You need a goal to create the person — the identity — that can effortlessly achieve your dream life.

Get clear and decide what you want to have.

This can be in your health, wealth, spirituality/ faith, relationships or experiences.

I’d encourage you to write it out on a piece of paper right now.

Three factors to have in this goal:

1. Be specific. — Don’t just say you have to lose weight or make more money. State exactly how much weight you want to lose and how much money you have to make.

2. Give it a deadline. — A deadline is helpful because it allows you to reverse engineer the goal. Work backwards to create the plan. There’s no guarantee that you’ll achieve your goal on the specific date, but as long as you have a plan and the actions to take, you will achieve it.

3. Reasonably unrealistic. — one of my mentors has a saying when it comes to goal setting: “Lean over the edge without falling off.” What this means is that your goal should be just out of your comfort zone that it pushes to be better. If it’s in your comfort zone, you won’t work towards it. If it’s too far, it becomes more of a wish than a goal.

Once you have your goal written down on paper with those 3 criteria, move on to step 2.

Step 2: Who Do You Need To Become

To achieve your goal, you need to become the type of person who effortlessly has the goal.

You need to become the person who can.

Think, “The person who has X, what are they like?”

Define them in every way you can think of:

• Character traits and qualities

• Behaviours and actions.

• How they think.

• How they feel.

• Clothing style.

• Personality.

• Habits.

If thinking of them is hard, you can start with the opposite.

What traits do they not have, what clothes do they not have, what habits do they not have, what behaviours do they not have, what thoughts do they not have, what actions do they not take?

Be as detailed as you can be about that person, who they are, what they do, what they don’t do and what life they live.

I’d recommend also creating a “day in the life” entry as this creates a clearer picture of the person you are becoming.

When you can get clear on this person, it makes it so much easier for you to pursue and become this person.

When you become the person who can, your goal is achieved as a by-product. A natural occurrence.

Remember: if you were the person capable of achieving your goal, you would have achieved it.

So logically, if you become the person capable of achieving your goal, you will achieve it.

Focus less on the goal and more on being the person who can.

Once you’ve created this person, we go onto step 3.

Step 3: Getting To Know Them

For step 3, you are going to create a document that details your 2.0 self.

I recommend adding visuals and images so that you can clearly see this person in your mind.

You can draw your 2.0 self or use pictures of people who you look up to as inspiration.

Next, you will write “Who is [Your Name]” (or you can write [your name] 2.0 or a completely different name if you want. It’s up to you).

e.g. I would write “Who is Shana” or “Who is Shana 2.0”.

Below that heading, write about yourself as if you are the person you wrote about in step 2. Write yourself in the 3rd person.

So let’s say, in step 2, you said the person you want to be is disciplined and they do what needs to be done even if they don’t feel like it.

So I would write, “Shana is disciplined and she does what she needs to do even if she doesn’t feel like it. She doesn’t give into instant gratification and is focused on her long-term goals.”

You want to write about yourself as if you are the person you described in step 2.

What you’re doing is creating a document that details and lays out the foundation for the person you are becoming.

The clearer it is for you to see this person, the easier it will be for you to become them.

You can take it a step further and write about your dream life.

How much money you earn, the place you live, the lifestyle you have, the goals you’ve achieved, your relationships and your health.

This is optional for now, but I highly recommend it if you are creating a self-mastery document.

The focus and the most important part of this step are to create and write about the person you are becoming in 3rd person.

Then you want to read over this document every morning and every night.

Your subconscious mind is most susceptible and accepting of new information when you wake up and before you fall asleep.

It's at the theta brainwave. At this brainwave, the ‘barrier’ between your conscious and subconscious mind is most permeable.

So it’s a great time to reprogramme yourself with this new identity.

Remember, your identity and your beliefs were formed through intense events and emotions like traumatic events or repeated experiences. So to shift into the person you want to be, you need to create a repeated experience.

Reading over this document every morning and night is how you create repeated experiences that will shift your identity. Bonus if you can read over it with emotions — positive emotions that is.

Now that you’ve created your identity, you need to shift into it.

There needs to be more than just reading over your document to ground the identity into reality.

This is where the next step is crucial.

Step 4: Stack Evidence

A key thing needs to happen for you to become your 2.0 self.

Experience.

Think back to school.

You don’t remember everything you learned from books, but you do remember your experiences whether it was something on the sports field, the stage or in class.

So to become your 2.0 self, you have to experience them now.

You know what actions, habits, thoughts and everything else make your 2.0 self them. So in your current reality, you want to act as them NOW. You want to do the behaviour, think the thoughts or feel the emotions they feel.

And every time you do, record it.

Buy an A5 or A6 journal or create a note on your phone to record your becoming of your 2.0 self.

Write a summary of your 2.0 self or 3 - 5 characteristics.

e.g. calm, focused and successful entrepreneur.

Then every time you act, think or feel like your 2.0 self write it down.

These are your confirmations or your evidence.

You are experiencing your 2.0 self and then drawing your attention to you becoming them.

Your mind is still focused on being your current self. So you have to direct your attention to being your 2.0 self until your mind starts doing it on its own.

Stacking the evidence also builds momentum and self-respect. You are watching yourself become the person you want to be.

As this process becomes more natural, over time — not overnight- you will be your 2.0 self.

#1 Key to Stacking the Evidence

Become biased and the rest are anomalies.

• If you are building a new identity, the feedback you look at is crucial. You have to be subjective and biased.

• The practice of discernment: pick what you want and ignore the rest.

• Assume you are your 2.0 self and keep your internal world intact with them.

• Accept that everything else is happening to help you level up. Look at everything as things happening FOR you.

• Choose the meaning you give the event and let it be a meaning that SERVES you. Think “How would my 2.0 self respond or think of this?”

• “Even good people have bad days.” If something ‘bad’ happened, accept what happened and then ignore it and move on.

• At worst, view it as an anomaly. At best, view it as something happening for you.

As you read over your identity, focus on being that person now and stacking the evidence, you will become that person over time.

And as you keep being this person, you will achieve your goals faster and easier.

Steps for creating and shifting into your new identity

1. Step your sights

2. Get clear on who you need to become

3. Get to know them

4. Stack the evidence

— Shana

p.s.

If you want help shifting your identity and achieve your goals with more ease,

you can book a free consultation with me here.