The Identity Gauntlet

You said you were done playing small.

You said you were going to change.

You wrote your own orders, stared your reflection in the face, and claimed a new identity.

But here’s the truth:

That’s how this works.

You’ll be doing fine…
Then out of nowhere, life swings at you.

⤷ You oversleep
⤷ You snap at your kid
⤷ You scroll for an hour instead of working
⤷ You get triggered and start spiraling
⤷ You forget everything you wrote in that journal

And that’s the moment the old identity tries to creep back in.

But this is the identity gauntlet.

This is where the new you gets forged.

Not in your journal.
Not on a vision board.
Not in a dopamine high after a podcast.

But in the moment when your old habits call your bluff…

…and you respond differently.

You breathe instead of snapping.
You pause before the scroll.
You get up and move, even when you don’t feel like it.

That’s the shift.

Small, silent moments when nobody’s watching.

That’s when the identity becomes real.

So here’s the mission this week:

Expect the resistance.
Anticipate the old voice.
And decide now how the new you will respond.

Because if you can survive the gauntlet…

You won’t have to keep proving it.

You’ll become it.

– G Dubb

P.S.
Nobody becomes the man he wrote about without being tested.
Pressure doesn’t mean you’re failing, it means you’re getting forged.
Hold the line.