You Become What You Do

The story you tell yourself leads to who you are

You hear the idea a lot. James Clear’s Atomic Habits just passed the 3 million sales mark for good reason. Habits (the ones we break and the ones we make) are as important as ever, especially now that we’re spending more of our time at home. I’m in the middle of a “Dry January” as a case in point.

You already recognize it’s the process of your actions that lead to improved outcomes. The problem is the story. The story you tell yourself.

Not all of your story is a problem. Parts of your story got you to this point with your various accomplishments and life wins. Parts of your story comes from the joys and setbacks of your occupations. Our jobs define us because they tell a part of our story, and why would we trade who we are for anything else?

A rare few have seized control of their story, and they have already done the “becoming.” They are what they do. They are authentic souls balancing play and work, focused and fulfilled.

Either their blueprint was clear from the beginning and they worked for it, or they stumbled into it. For those people, this post will be more reinforcement for what they’ve already done.

For you, you’re still wondering about this blueprint. If you had a set of clear guidelines, then you’d just do what you knew you needed to do for that utopian future.

When it comes to your story, your age doesn’t matter. You don’t get farther away from it over time. You probably recognized that a long time ago.

This very morning I was half-dreaming, half-fantasizing about living my entire life all over again except with the adult awareness I have now. Not an original thought. In fact, by contrast, it’s a collective thought.

What would it have been like to actually already know the songs my parents were trying to teach me? How would I have responded when the bully beamed me in the back of the legs with the…

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