The Biz Devo with Kenneth Ott

Who Do You Think You Are? Why Identity Determines Destiny


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By mastering the superpowers of belief, expectation, and identity that we already possess, we can achieve extraordinary outcomes and live a life without limits.

Summary

This episode explores how cultivating belief, expectation, and identity can act as "superpowers" that help us achieve even our biggest goals and wildest dreams. The speaker dives into the multilayered nature of belief, explaining how strongly expecting an outcome makes it more likely to happen. He shares his own struggles with misplaced identity and how shifting his internal perception changed everything. By grounding his identity in his unshakable life purpose, he was able to unlock greater belief in himself.

The episode emphasizes that our self-identity determines what we believe we can do. Just as great achievers like star athletes and famous inventors maintain strong identities to achieve the impossible, we must align our core identity with our desired outcomes in order to eliminate self-doubt. Practical tips are provided, including exploring our current sense of identity, adjusting self-talk, focusing thoughts on goals, matching actions to those of the person we wish to become, and choosing empowering words.

Above all, the message is that we already have the superpowers of belief, expectation, and identity within us. By conditioning these and not allowing external factors to limit our identity, we can accomplish anything. Success starts from within.


Top 3 Growth Tips

  • Place your identity in something unshakable to experience unlimited belief. This reminds us to ground our identity in something solid like our core values to unlock limitless belief in ourselves.
  • Expect positive outcomes instead of doubting yourself. Expecting the best conditions us to achieve it. There is no downside to anticipating positive results.
  • Change your identity to change your beliefs. Your identity forms the foundation for your beliefs. Align it with your goals.


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About Ken Ott: 

Kenneth Ott is an owner of multiple businesses, entrepreneur, husband, father, and Christian leader. Ken is the co-Founder of Metacake, an Ecommerce Growth Team and Dough Capital. Ken is an author, speaker, and business coach. To connect or learn more, visit: 

  • KenOtt.com
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  • Ken on Facebook
  • Metacake - An Ecommerce Growth Team
  • Dough - We own amazing DTC brands


Show Highlights

[00:00] The episode opens by introducing belief, expectation and identity as human "superpowers."

[01:13] Belief has many layers: what you believe will happen, believing in yourself, your belief system, believing in who you are.

[02:44] Stronger belief increases the likelihood of achieving the outcomes you want. Belief allows you to achieve things assumed to be impossible.

[04:22] Place your identity in something unshakable to experience unlimited belief. "When you can get to a place that is impossible to shake, then you are impossible to stop and your belief is unlimited."

[05:33] Identity influences belief - who you believe you are determines what you believe you can do.

[06:22] You can control how others see you by adjusting how you see yourself. Align identity with desired outcomes.

[07:24] The speaker struggled by basing identity on others' perceptions, which limited his success.

[08:33] He worked to ground his identity in his unshakable life purpose, unlocking greater belief.

[09:04] Expect positive outcomes instead of doubting yourself. "If you always expect a positive outcome, and it doesn't happen, what if it doesn't happen? You'd be no more worse off."

[10:44] Great achievers maintain strong identities, allowing them to believe and achieve the impossible.

[11:33] If your identity ties to success, you may fear failure and not try to succeed. Move identity to an unshakable place.

[13:11] Steps to align identity and beliefs: Explore your identity, adjust self-perception, focus thoughts on goals, match actions to goals, choose empowering words.

[14:56] Your words hold power. Speak words aligned with your desired outcomes.

[16:22] You must practice conditioning your identity, beliefs, expectations, and words to ingrain new empowering habits.

[16:44] Change your identity to change your beliefs. "If your identity is weak in the wrong place, then you'll never have the strength to actually believe what you need to believe to achieve the things that you actually want."

[17:33] Belief, expectation and identity are accessible superpowers within everyone.

[18:04] Focusing on these superpowers allows you to achieve extraordinary results.

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The Biz Devo with Kenneth OttBy Kenneth Ott