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# The Identity Trap: Why Goals Fail and Labels Stick You've likely felt this exact sequence before: January first, a fresh notebook, the ambitious list. You're going to write daily, run three times a week, finally launch that side project. For two weeks, it works. Then life interrupts — a late meeting, a cold, a travel day — and the streak breaks. By February, the notebook is buried in a drawer, and you've added one more data point to a quiet, corrosive belief: *I'm just not a disciplined person.* Here's where I'm going to surprise you. The problem was never your discipline. It was your target. You set a goal to *write*.