Why Identity Shifting Is More Effective Than New Year’s Resolutions

When we create New Year's Resolutions, particular goals or intentions we wish to achieve or experience in the year ahead, we may find it challenging to reach them or even give up on our desires entirely. This is highlighted in research, which has found that only 9% of people actually keep their resolutions. A foundational reason for this is that at the very core of growth in our outer world, we must first become someone who is a match to what we truly desire, for lasting change. We are therefore required to shift to a matching self-identity, so our emotions, consciousness, and brain and body neural networks can both internally and externally support the changes to embody our deepest desires. 

What we truly and deeply desire is also what we want to focus on, being desires that are inspired and meaningful, carrying with them an intention and a felt energy, from the soul level. You may also experience these desires as an extension of your felt soul purpose. Often, however, these deep desires do not align with the version of us that we are currently living. This is a piece that is vital to become the version of you that can embody the energy, identity and internal neural circuitry of the version of you that is living your true desires. Therefore, for us to manifest a desire in its highest form, we are invited to change internally and externally in our behaviours, expressions, and actions to be a resonant match.

Why it matters

For example, if we have a desire for a loving partner or to reach a level of success in our career, if we believe subconsciously that we are not worthy and capable of love or success, or if our desires do not match our self-identity and how we identify with the world, we will encounter blocks. We will not be open to new opportunities and directions that have the potential to move us into our true desires, because they contradict our identity narrative and go against what we think we can actually achieve. 

As such, the beliefs we hold about ourselves and the relationship we have with the world represent our most influential asset, for they influence us to either play small and limited or play large and limitless in our lives. Therefore, when we adopt a perspective of ourselves that is capable of accessing limitless potential, we choose life-changing self-evolution, and we remember that this has always been our true state of being. Within this evolved state of consciousness, we can reveal our highest vision of purpose and integrate with our highest self. I like to refer to it as our expanded self, as we are already our greatest, most elevated, future self from a quantum science and unity consciousness perspective. As such, we need only to expand our consciousness and bodily circuitry to embody this elevated version of us that has no self-imposed limits. If you can access the vision or feeling of your expanded self, you already have access to the matching desires and outcomes. Your soul is guiding you towards your highest evolution and fulfilment, if you are willing to listen and be open to change.

We access and embody our expanded self by changing our sense of identity into the person who is already living and embodying our inspired vision, through daily conscious behaviours and actions. Through habitual, daily small inner shifts of thoughts, feelings and behaviours that represent your elevated self, you then create evolution in your external world of reality. You embody who you truly are without limitation. It is the more limitless version of you that has a matching empowering self-narrative and the life that reflects it. Lasting and empowering change is created in your life because you have changed, and your life will always reflect this inner shift. Changing our reality and receiving our true desires always starts as an inside job.

First action step process

Whom do you want to embody in 2026?

Begin by meditating with the intention to receive insight and clarity of your highest soul potential and the steps to become and live this potential. Journal on the vision, insights and feelings that you experience. Allow it to be revealed to you through the whispers of your soul. 

Allow this to be the start of your grand evolution into who you truly are. Believe in you, believe it’s possible, and the steps will be shown to you with clarity.

My intention for 2026 and beyond is to help you remember and embody your power and purpose. Your dreams are waiting for you to wake up to them. I believe in you, and it’s your time now to truly believe in who you are and what you can truly achieve, knowing that is already within you.

Love & remembering your light

Kimberley x