Choose Your Identity Carefully

When you ask someone to tell you about themselves, usually the first thing you will hear is their career choice. Because work is important and we spend so much time working every week, we often claim that job or career as our identity.

I suggest we need to carefully choose what our identity consists of. If we choose things that can change or could lose, we risk causing ourself unnecessary chaos. For example, if your job is your identity, you risk being torn apart when you lose your job because you allowed it to form your identity.

Choose long term and more important things to form your identity.

Who you are and what you do are different things. You may be a dentist, but that's not who you are, it's what you do.

Who you are as a person is far more important. Things like being a friend, being a mother, son, cousin and etc are far more important than just being a doctor, lawyer, clerk...

So be very selective in what you accept as your identity.