Coaching practices for Action Identity Landscape
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I can recount exactly what happened
- I’ve got these very different visions of my life on paper and I’m staring at them wondering what’s actually me underneath all of them
- I can hold the intention to be a certain way in my head all morning, but the second I’m standing in the actual spot
- There’s a story I tell about my past
- I slipped once and now my whole head is going "see, you’re not really that person, why even bother"
Practices that may help
- Landscape of Identity and Action Questions
Use two question types to map both what the person DID (action) and what that reveals about who they ARE (identity).
Narrative Therapy: Rewriting the Stories That Define You - Narrative Identity, Made Practical
Dan McAdams’ narrative identity theory holds that identity itself is a personal myth — an internalized, evolving story that integrates your past, present, and imagined future into a coherent sense of self. The structure and tone of that story (whether it moves toward redemption or contamination, agency or communion) predicts psychological well-being, and the story can be deliberately revised. Evidence is primarily observational but robustly consistent. - Build a coherent narrative across your three plans
Find the values and themes that appear across all three plans — they are your non-negotiables.
Odyssey Plans: Designing Three Alternative Futures - Prime your identity with environmental cues
Place objects, images, or phrases that represent your desired identity in the spaces where the relevant behavior happens.
Identity Priming, Made Practical - Revise your life narrative when it limits you
Identify and reauthor the story you tell about your past that constrains what you believe is possible.
The Life Crafting Intervention: Scripting Your Future Self - Respond to identity threats without self-concept collapse
When you act against your identity, treat it as a behavior question, not a character verdict.
Identity Priming, Made Practical - Borrow an identity temporarily by asking "what would [person] do?"
Temporarily adopting a role model’s identity in a specific context lowers the friction of acting as they would.
Identity Priming, Made Practical - Journal as the person you are becoming, not the person you have been
Writing from your desired identity’s perspective, even tentatively, strengthens its psychological availability.
Identity Priming, Made Practical - Identity Priming, Made Practical
Identity priming is the finding that briefly activating a self-concept (e.g., "I am someone who values health") before a decision increases the chance of behavior consistent with that identity. Effects are real but modest and context-dependent; they are most reliable when the identity is already part of how you genuinely see yourself. - Build a behavioral bridge to the possible self
Identify one specific behavior your hoped-for self does that you can do today — then do it.
Possible Selves, Made Practical
Related concerns
- Habit Identity Formation
Writing from your desired identity’s perspective, even tentatively, strengthens its psychological availability.
Journal as the person you are becoming, not the person you have been
- How Identity Shapes Behavior
Identity priming is the finding that briefly activating a self-concept (e.g., "I am someone who values health") before a decision increases the chance of behavior consistent with that identity. Effects are real but modest and context-dependent; they are most reliable when the identity is already part of how you genuinely see yourself.
- Narrative Identity Planning
Dan McAdams’ narrative identity theory holds that identity itself is a personal myth — an internalized, evolving story that integrates your past, present, and imagined future into a coherent sense of self. The structure and tone of that story (whether it moves toward redemption or contamination, agency or communion) predicts psychological well-being, and the story can be deliberately revised. Evidence is primarily observational but robustly consistent.
- Provisional Identity Practice
Writing from your desired identity’s perspective, even tentatively, strengthens its psychological availability.
- Social Identity Therapy
Invite meaningful others to witness and retell the new story — being known differently by others consolidates the new identity.
Definitional Ceremonies and Outsider Witnesses
- Decisive Action Identity
Identity priming is the finding that briefly activating a self-concept (e.g., "I am someone who values health") before a decision increases the chance of behavior consistent with that identity. Effects are real but modest and context-dependent; they are most reliable when the identity is already part of how you genuinely see yourself.
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