163: Your Identity Hasn't Caught Up: Why You Still Don't Feel Strong

About this episode

How much evidence do you need before you're willing to believe something new about yourself? Hold a real number in your head while you listen to this. Because you've already got plenty. You strength train three times a week and still say you're not really athletic. You deadlift 150 pounds and still say you're not strong. You've trained consistently for a year and still say you've never been consistent. The evidence shows up. The story doesn't move. And at some point the evidence stopped being the problem, because you have plenty of it. The problem is what you're doing with it, which if we're honest is nothing. You collect it and set it aside like it doesn't count. Like it's the exception to the rule. Your actions have already changed. Your body has already changed. The story you're telling yourself about who you are is still running on information from decades ago. This one isn't about what your body is doing. We've covered that plenty. This is about what your identity hasn't caught up to yet, and what you're going to do about it starting right now. In this episode: • Why this isn't a character flaw, a confidence problem, or self-sabotage • What your