00:00:00:01 - 00:00:07:15 Unknown Welcome to fuel your dry. 00:00:07:17 - 00:00:25:17 Unknown Guys, what's going on? Welcome to Fuel your Drive. I am your host, Joshua. We have another incredible episode in store, and I first want to start out before I've been sharing with you guys about liking and subscribing, which I need you to do. Please, guys, I'm on the top show list, which is absolutely incredible. I was like blown away to see it. 00:00:25:17 - 00:00:50:12 Unknown The top 200 shows were at like number 72 months ago. It was like number 190 or something. So thank you so much. I want to keep growing the show. So please continue to keep sharing it. Leave a rating, leave a review. It means the absolute world to me. And let's get into today's episode. So really wanted to focus on something that would be powerful. 00:00:50:14 - 00:00:57:18 Unknown And the topic for today is identity. First, become the person who wins. Okay? 00:00:57:20 - 00:01:16:05 Unknown Most people don't fail because they lack goals. They fail because their identity does not match their ambition. And that's a very important thing to understand, okay? You don't get what you want. You get who you are. You got to become the person that you're trying to be before you even get there, okay? 00:01:16:05 - 00:01:20:02 Unknown And every result in your life is a reflection of your identity. 00:01:20:02 - 00:01:34:17 Unknown All right. So today we're going to we're not just talking about goal setting. We're talking about becoming. You have to become first and then you got to get out there and execute. So here's the thing okay. So I want to break this down. Goals versus identity 00:01:34:19 - 00:01:36:12 Unknown goals are external okay. 00:01:36:16 - 00:01:57:12 Unknown And that means that identity is internal. So I want to lose 20 pounds versus someone who trains daily. And I'm going to lose 20 pounds. Right. Saying it is not going to get you there, but becoming that person, like, okay, I'm going to start working out every single day. That's going to get you there. Another example I want to grow a business. 00:01:57:12 - 00:02:21:14 Unknown Great. That's great. Everyone would love to grow a business. Everyone would love to be successful. Verse I am a disciplined operator. You have to be that person and people try to achieve success. Try to achieve success without becoming the person capable of sustaining it, right? Temporary change happens with motivation. Permanent change happens with identity. 00:02:21:14 - 00:02:27:22 Unknown Okay? So look, it's going to come down to a couple things and you need to understand something. 00:02:27:24 - 00:02:48:06 Unknown What you think and what you believe is, is ultimately going to turn you into who you're going to become. And you need to get to that person before you achieve anything. Great. So I'm going to take you back to the early days. I always believed I was wealthy. I always told myself I had X amount of money. Every time I looked in the mirror, I was like, man, I'm the best. 00:02:48:11 - 00:03:05:16 Unknown I looked in the mirror. I was like, I'm so successful. I always believed these things before I got there. And there's some things I used to do that I actually never shared, probably with most people. And, if any of these people are listening, I'm so sorry that I did this to you back in the day, but it's something that's very important. 00:03:05:18 - 00:03:24:01 Unknown So, for example, if I wanted something or I wanted to like, you know, achieve something, I always, you know, I always have to get a taste of it. So I'll give you a good example. Back in the day, I wanted to experience this before I even started Gym guys, but I wanted to experience what it was like to stay at a top notch hotel. 00:03:24:01 - 00:03:41:00 Unknown Like, I mean, the best of the best. Like growing up, I never stayed at the best of the best. I stayed at some nice hotels, but nothing like high, high level. So I stayed at a Ritz-Carlton, which was absolutely incredible. And what an experience. And I believe no one does it better than them when it comes to customer service. 00:03:41:00 - 00:03:59:19 Unknown I this is not an ad. This is not this is I'm just telling you how it is. I think they're just incredible how they operate. I recently just stayed in a Ritz-Carlton when I went out to California and had an issue with the package and the way they handled it. Incredible. Like, just super, super, super focused on the customer experience. 00:03:59:19 - 00:04:18:12 Unknown Well, anyway, I will never forget I, you know, didn't have a lot of money at the time. I, you know, took out what I needed. Like, I, I saved everything just to get the hotel room. I did not eat at the hotel. I didn't do anything at the hotel because it was just crazy expensive. And I don't have the money to spend, but I wanted to put myself there. 00:04:18:12 - 00:04:38:18 Unknown And you have to do things like this. So, you know, I remember when I checked in. Hello. How are you doing, Mr. York? They somehow. I don't even know how they knew, but they knew my name before I even came in, so I don't know if, they they they're just they're just on their game. Came in, I remember I was greeted and I just remember the feeling. 00:04:38:20 - 00:04:58:09 Unknown I remember that feeling like yesterday. It was such a powerful feeling of how I felt. So I put myself there. Right. That was a little taste then, you know, I was very big into, you know, I'm not really like a fancy car kind of guy, but I just love pickup trucks. And, I always wanted a pickup truck. 00:04:58:09 - 00:05:15:01 Unknown Could never afford one. So I. I'll never forget. I went to the dealer, you know, when I just started driving and you know, I said I was going to purchase a pickup truck, so I sat in it. I just felt like it was mine. And I got a taste of it. Today. I owned a pickup truck that I could own other things too, if I wanted, but I love my pickup truck. 00:05:15:01 - 00:05:39:15 Unknown But these are exercises you have to do if you want to put yourself there, and you have to start speaking like you already are, you already are there. And sometimes what you really have to do not sometimes all the time. Actually, I apologize for that. You have to force certain things into your life. And, you know, I'm going to probably drop another episode on that because there's a lot there's a lot that's involved in in the process of doing that. 00:05:39:15 - 00:06:12:13 Unknown But point being, you got to become that person, right? So now a lot of people self-sabotage, okay. And what it comes down to is if someone sees themselves as inconsistent, they'll act inconsistent even when they have a big goal. Right? You will always act in alignment with who you believe you are. That is just a fact, right? So like when I look in the mirror like, and you when you do this, you and you look in the mirror, you should say to yourself, flat out, I'm the greatest. 00:06:12:18 - 00:06:30:23 Unknown I'm number one, look at me. I'm a massive success. Another example I'll give you. Back in the day, I always wanted to get a custom suit. I used to see all these people in these custom suits and I was like, oh my God, they looked so good. I literally splurged once on a custom suit, could not afford it, put me in a very bad place, but I did it anyway. 00:06:30:23 - 00:06:49:17 Unknown I don't even really wear suits, but I wanted to suit. I was going to an event and I spent the money on it. And I'll never forget that experience of the measuring me and just the way they were handling the whole experience. It was just the same feeling I got at that hotel. Identity is so important, guys. So let me give you some tactical steps here, okay? 00:06:49:17 - 00:07:15:09 Unknown So decide who you're becoming, okay? Not what you want. Who you are becoming. I am becoming a disciplined entrepreneur. I'm becoming someone who finishes what they start, then cast identity votes. Okay? Every action is a vote. One workout equals a vote for the athlete, right? One sales call. A vote for the closer one. Early wake up vote for the disciplined start. 00:07:15:09 - 00:07:29:03 Unknown Start doing things like this where you start giving yourself these, you know, these rewards in your mind, right? Because we always talk about mindset mindsets. Very powerful right. And choose your language very wisely. 00:07:29:05 - 00:07:36:07 Unknown Stop saying I'm trying. Stop saying I'm not good at dad. Stop saying that's just how I am. Well, that's not going to work for me. 00:07:36:09 - 00:07:59:18 Unknown You don't speak like that. You speak positive words, you have positive affirmations and you constantly repeat them. It's very, very important. So, you know, at the end of the day, you got to understand a couple things, okay, stop. You have to stop chasing goals. You have to first become who you're trying to become. And that makes the goals just guaranteed they're going to happen. 00:07:59:20 - 00:08:03:05 Unknown But you can't you can't accomplish those goals if you don't become that person. 00:08:03:11 - 00:08:22:05 Unknown So before I close out a couple a couple steps, you know, to, to really starting to do this, okay, you have to build that confidence. And you have to first believe these things. Okay. And you might listen to this and say, I'm crazy. I can tell you a bunch of books you can read that will literally reiterate every single thing I'm saying right now. 00:08:22:05 - 00:08:24:04 Unknown But start, 00:08:24:06 - 00:08:44:16 Unknown start today and start believing you're that person. Okay. You know, and at the end of the day, you know, you got to write it down like, I'm very big and writing things down. But ask yourself, who do I need to become to earn the life I want? And I would literally cut that out and put that in the area that you look at every day. 00:08:44:16 - 00:09:06:23 Unknown And I would not stare at that longer than 2 or 3 days. That's it. Because again, it goes back down to action. Right. So I would look at it, I would get to the bottom of who you're trying to become. And I would also make sure you understand because this is very, very important. You cannot surround yourself around people who don't think this way because that's only going to bring you down. 00:09:06:23 - 00:09:09:18 Unknown You have to surround yourself with people who are going to lift you up. 00:09:09:20 - 00:09:25:10 Unknown So pay attention to that. You know, we talked about this before in other episodes. It's a very, very important, very, very important factor. So I hope you guys enjoyed this episode. Start doing that today. Start executing today. Start right now. Let's get after it, guys. 00:09:25:12 - 00:09:30:01 Unknown I hope this was valuable. Until next time. Fuel your drive. See? 00:09:30:03 - 00:09:43:17 Unknown Login. You know my name? My name is legit.