I recently heard an amazing and inspiring story of a man who overcame extreme childhood trauma and has become a successful motivational speaker.

His name is Anthony Trucks and he’s just published a book called Identity Shift: Upgrade How You Operate to Elevate Your Life.  It tells his amazing personal story and how he turned his life around to become the great success that he is today.

The link to his interview with Marie Forleo and his book on amazon in the blog post for this episode https://dreambigandbloom.com/54-when-your-identity-shifts

Anthony’s story demonstrates three powerful DreamBuilder Principles.

#1 Your history does not determine your destiny.”
#2 Your personal transformation -- who you become during the process of achieving your dreams, “your identity shift” is the greatest reward.
#3 God (A Higher Power) supports us on our journey when we pay attention and are willing to change.

I think many people are confused as to whether they should just visualize their new identity and then their behavior will change or whether they have to make all the changes in behavior in order to become the person they want to be. The reality is that it takes a combination of the two. This is what Anthony learned and implemented and how he created his success.

In DreamBuilding we visualize ourselves being the person we desire, and taking baby steps every day -- we live as if we are “that person” by doing what we can, with what we have from where we are.  And we have tools for managing the interference by our paradigms - our habitual ways of thinking and behaving, so that we can stay on track and accelerate our results.

Our results provide proof, and the evidence of success builds our confidence and faith in the process. Life becomes more peaceful and more fulfilling and then one day you realize that you have experienced an internal, personal transformation -- an “Identity Shift.”

Anthony made a decision. In the DreamBuilder Program we talk about the power of decision. He decided to start acting like the person he wanted to be, to make changes in his behavior and develop new habits.

And finally, one day, it dawned on him that he had a new identity.  He had experienced an “identity shift.” He had become the person he had envisioned being. The new way of living had become effortless because it was now a part of who he was.

And he had become a hero and inspiration to others. As I always say, “Be the change you’d love to see in the world.”

He didn’t accomplish all of this on his own. He had mentors (dare I say Angels from heaven?) along the way -- people who cared about him and told him some things that were hard for him to hear; but he was tired of living the same old, same old, and wanted to earn the respect of his children, so he was willing to do the work.

If you love inspiring stories about personal transformation you will love Anthony's book.

In any case I hope what I share in this episode will inspire you. And if you should have any excuses about why you can’t have a life you absolutely love, that you will give them up and get into action to make YOUR “Identity Shift” into the person you would love to be.

I’d love to know the biggest insight that you’re taking away from this episode? And most importantly, how are you going to put that insight into action starting right now? Share in the comments at  https://dreambigandbloom.com/54-when-your-identity-shifts  

Looking forward to hearing from you!

Much love,
Mardi