Think.Act.Achieve - Lesson 3 - A new identity

Lesson 3 shows you that your self-image is the crucial switch that controls your thoughts, decisions, actions and therefore controls your lasting results. If you want to change your life permanently, you don't have to work harder, you have to raise your inner self-image.  Your self-image is the picture you have of yourself internally - it has been shaped by upbringing, experiences, opinions of others and repetitive thoughts.

“You cannot achieve more than your self-image allows - but you can shape your self-image to allow ANYTHING.” - Bob Proctor

Core content of lesson 3

1️⃣ Understand your self-image

You can change your behavior in the short term, but you will always return to your self-image in the long term. It is not rational or logical, but an emotionally anchored paradigm (thought/behavior pattern) in the subconscious. The self-image acts like a thermostatic system or an autopilot:

• If you try to achieve "too much" (from the point of view of your self-image), your subconscious corrects you away from the "too much".
• It creates emotional tension and steers you back into your comfort zone.

This explains why many people fall back, even though they were previously motivated - their identity has not changed.

2️⃣ How do you recognize a limiting self-image?

• You doubt yourself, even though you achieve good results.
• You “simply don't trust” yourself to do certain things.
• You constantly compare yourself with others.
• You achieve certain goals - but lose them again (e.g. money, partnership, fitness).
• You unconsciously sabotage yourself in situations that could bring success.

In this lesson I will show you how to recognize your old self-image, where it is holding you back, and how to replace it with a magnetic new self-image.

 Tools & exercises in lesson 3

1️⃣ Recognizing the status quo: What is my current self-image?

You reflect:

• Deep down, what do I think about myself?
• Where do I think I am “not good enough”, “not the type for...”, “rather reserved”, etc.?
• What are typical negative beliefs that I think about myself?

Sample questions:

• How do I think about my success?
• How do I see myself in comparison to others?
• What do I expect of myself?
• What sentences do I often say about myself?

You write down honestly: “I currently see myself as someone who ....”

2️⃣ Self-image statement (formulation of the new self-image)

You formulate it:

• In the first person
• Present tense (as if it were already a reality)
• Emotionally positively charged
• Short, concrete, powerful

Example: "I am a clear, confident and creative leader. I act with calm strength and have complete confidence in my path."

You read it out loud to yourself:

• every morning and evening
• with feeling and emotion

3️⃣ Theatre of the mind - visualizing with feeling

Sit down quietly and take a deep breath:

• Imagine a specific scene (e.g. presentation, conversation, sale, application, relationship).
• Observe yourself as your new self in action.
• How are you standing?
• How do you speak?
• How do you feel?
• Let the picture come to life. See it as part of a stage play. Feel as if it were real with you as the leading actor.

4️⃣ Bringing it into everyday life

You act as if you already are like it:

• What would the new you do today?
• What decision(s) would you make?
• How would you dress?
• What would you say - and what wouldn't you say?
• How would you treat yourself?

You make a list: “This is how the new me behaves ....” - and immediately start behaving like this.

5️⃣ Daily reflection

You keep a self-image journal and ask yourself the following questions:

• What did I do  today that corresponds to my new self-image?
• Were there moments when the old self-image surfaced?
• How did I consciously act in a new way?
• What am I proud of today?
• How do I want to appear tomorrow?

This process of reflection strengthens your identity from within on a daily basis.

6️⃣ Integration into everyday life

If you make lasting changes to your self-image, you will no longer need discipline for many things.

✅ Workbook & video for the lesson

You read the workbook for the lesson and watch the corresponding video for the lesson. There I explain the concepts to you, supported with corresponding examples.

✅ Question and answer sessions

Once a week you can take part in the regular Q&A session with me personally and live, where you can ask all your questions about the current lesson.

Objectives of lesson 3

At the end of this lesson you should:

• Have consciously recognized how you have seen yourself so far and why this has hindered you.
  
• Have defined a clear and complete initial new self-image for yourself.
• Have established clarity about the ongoing process of developing your new self-image.
• Master the techniques to sustainably maintain and further develop this self-image.
• Have adapted your actions to your new self-image.

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