Personality Isn't Permanent: Break Free from Self-Limiting Beliefs and Rewrite Your Story

by Benjamin P. Hardy

when you begin actively and intentionally moving forward in your life, not only does your future get better but your past does as well. Your past increasingly becomes something happening for you, not to you.

Assaraf’s mentor asked him, “Are you interested in achieving these goals, or are you committed?” to which Assaraf responded, “What’s the difference?” His mentor responded: “If you’re interested, you come up with stories, excuses, reasons, and circumstances about why you can’t or why you won’t. If you’re committed, those go out the window. You just do whatever it takes.”

Success at night and in the morning is crucial to becoming your future self.

rather than building the life we genuinely want, far too often we build our lives around our trauma. To avoid the pain of the past, we create a pseudo-personality rather than our desired one.

When we begin to develop personality traits based on our emotions, we’re living in the past, and that’s where we get stuck.

Instead of having your environment and circumstances reflect your identity, you want to design your environment to reflect your future identity.

Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you.