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Week 4 · Compound · Day 22 of 30

Identity votes

Today's intent (planned)

Collect the evidence of who you are becoming: the wins and moves you have already done, each written as a vote.

The practice

  1. Set today's look-for in reality/log/<today>.md.
  2. Read the "I am" lines in soul.md.
  3. Go through reality/witness.md from day 1. For every win, move and rep, ask: which "I am" line did this vote for?
  4. Add any missing wins and done moves to reality/evidence.md, one line each: - <date> · <the act, as a vote>. Only what you did, never what you planned. In Studio, Witness builds this list from your wins and moves.
  5. Count the votes for each line. If one line has none, note it. Tomorrow you can give it one small act, or rewrite it as something you can act on.

Why it works

Meaning

Identity is declared, and it is also practiced. Reading your own record can be a quiet surprise: you have been this person more often than you remembered. Let the list be a mirror you can trust, because every line is something you did.

Mechanism

Each action is a vote for the identity it matches, and acting from a chosen identity makes the matching behavior more likely. Belief in your ability grows mainly from real successes you can point to, so a written list does more than a feeling of progress. Only done acts count, which keeps the belief calibrated to the evidence instead of running ahead of your skill.

Tonight (reported)

Do one small act today for the "I am" line with the fewest votes. Add an entry at the top of reality/witness.md, headed ### <today> <time> · win, and its line to reality/evidence.md (Studio: Witness). If it did not happen, head it · lesson.

  • Happened (fact): The act, as an observer would describe it.
  • Meant (my meaning): Which line it voted for, and what that means to you.
  • Did (action): Only what is done.
  • Next (planned): The next vote for that line.
  • Did it come? In the log: - Did it come: yes, no or not marked.