Five Identity Shifts That Are Helping Me Go From Apprentice to Magician
So many of yoy loved my last post and asked for more so here we go. 1. I stopped consuming more than I was creating This ties back to my last post and it’s so important it needs to be said again. I had to stop consuming everyone else’s strategies, doom-scrolling, saving workshops, freebies, and courses hoping one of them would be the one that magically changed everything. That pattern was psychological — rooted in a deep fear of unworthiness. Learning endlessly was perfectionism dressed up as progress. Doom-scrolling wasn’t relaxing; it was avoiding. Avoiding failure. Avoiding rejection. Avoiding the possibility that I would try, and nothing would happen. So I got honest with myself. I chose one mentor whose work aligned with my values and stuck to that path. I set a boundary: I don’t learn something new until I take an action based on what I just learned. I removed social media apps from my home screen and put time limits on them. It taught my nervous system the difference between unwinding and hiding. 2. I stopped treating my coaching business like a spiritual experiment and started treating it like a business I used to truly believe that if I delivered the right message at the right time with the right vibe, everything would just “take off.” God would move. People would flood in. It would be divine momentum. Spoiler — it wasn’t. Relying on vibes alone didn’t give my audience clear language, clear outcomes, or a clear reason to buy. When I applied Dan’s framework and reworked my offer around tangible results, clear purchase paths, and measurable transformation, everything shifted. I felt confident. I felt legitimate. I stopped feeling like a “spiritual fraud” passively teaching from synchronicity and started teaching from structure. 3. I stopped seeing my audience as viewers and started seeing them as relationships This one is still a muscle I actively practice. I used to chase visibility — go viral, be seen, “build fast.” Now the question is: Am I performing, or am I connecting?