The Blueprint 2.0
Want to learn the true key to making real life change?
Identity.
Let’s imagine you see someone running for a train, and they drop their wallet on the floor. No one else sees it happen, only you. There are no surveillance cameras, no witnesses, just you.
You look down and see the wallet. It’s fat, and full to the brim of $100 notes.
You reach down to pick it up; and you need a wide, solid grip just to hold it together; it’s surely got at least $100,000 in here?!
And the person who dropped it has no idea… in fact, they’ve just got on the train.
You glance up. You see the train, sitting at the platform, the doors still open, leaving in about 60 seconds.
You see the owner - standing obliviously, looking out the other window of the train, with no idea what’s happened.
What do you do?
You know you could easily get away with this… what will you do?
Oh no - the train suddenly closed its doors… you thought you had 60 seconds before it left, but, there it goes.
It’s started to move. You look through the window, and see the poor person who’s dropped the wallet leaving now, with no idea what’s happened.
What do you do?
My guess is, you originally would have tried to call out to the person, letting them know they’ve dropped their wallet.
Then, if the train left, you’d either look to an authority to hand the wallet in - or, you would look for some kind of identity card in the wallet, and see if you can post the wallet to the person’s address.
Either way, you wouldn’t touch a dollar of their money - is that correct?
What I’d like to show you by this example is, even if your goal is to ‘make an extra $100,000’ in property, investments, pay-rises or side business, you wouldn’t ‘shortcut’ the process by taking someone else’s money, even if you could get away with it.
Why?
Because you’re not a thief.
Identity.
You are certain in your identity that ‘you’re an honest person who is not a thief,’ so even if you were presented with an opportunity to steal a million dollars and get away with it, you simply never would. In fact, you’d probably disassociate from the friends that tried to suggest it to you. Because your identity doesn’t just drive the behaviours or what you will and won’t do, it also drives the type of people you associate with.
In the same way, if you identify as a ‘fat guy who is a smoker,’ you’ll likely struggle trying to lose 20kg, keep it off and kick the smoking habit.
But, if you identify as ‘an athlete, who got caught up in some bad habits, but is cleaning up his act now,’ I trust you’d find this identity far more conducive to your weight loss/health goals.
If you’ve been playing the identity of “an off-season athlete” for the last few months how comfortable would you be if you had to play in the grand final tomorrow?
You see, most people have “grand final” goals, but don’t identify themselves as “grand final players.” Most people are being “off-season athletes” and wonder why they’re struggling with “grand final goals.”
If you identity as ‘a middle manager, who makes $100k a year,’ would you agree that you’ll likely have a lot of imposter syndrome when given the opportunity to wield a $10million property deal; as opposed to thinking of yourself as “a young ambitious investor and future mogul”?
