Jacqueline Elliott argues that self-imposed labels like "I'm not a morning person" or "I'm shy" lock you into limiting behavior. She stopped calling herself a morning person, reorganized her schedule around early gym sessions, and changed her habits as a result.
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You do what you do because of what you think of you or yourself. Right? See, I'm not a morning person. I'm not a morning person. Not a morning person. I can't do things in the morning. I can't think in the morning. The first subject in school that I have, I can't really concentrate. So I'm not even gonna get a good grade on my class growing up, I'm just not a morning person. I believed about myself that I was not a morning person. So I just wasn't a morning person. So one day I said, I'm not freaking gonna not be a morning person anymore. I'm a morning person. So I started planning stuff around my day in the morning, and guess what? I started waking up the gym in the morning. When I didn't like the gym, we started doing things that had to do with the morning. So I became a morning person. So there's certain labels that you might have on yourself about who you are. I'm an introvert. I'm an extrovert. I'm shy. I'm not good at this. I can't say you have to get rid of those labels in order to go to the next level.