Novelty creates change.
I've been on a few Joe Dispenza retreats and if you know anything about him he's often quoted saying "cells that fire together, wire together" (among other little golden nuggets) and these words ring through my brain pretty often. It's this concept that habits create identity, for better or for worse.
If you're wanting to wear a new identity -- for example, if you want to become someone who makes $1m a month, someone who runs marathons, someone who really moves slow and enjoys life, whatever your heart desires -- it requires behaviors that match that identity. It requires new neural pathways.
Even small changes in habitual behavior (like brushing your teeth with your other hand) can contribute to neuroplasticity, telling your brain and your body “I’m no longer that person. I’m becoming someone new.”
This week, choose novelty with intention.
Brush your teeth with the opposite hand. Drive a new route. Sit in a different spot. Change the way you breathe, move, or respond. These simple shifts signal to your brain: we’re doing things differently now.
Every time you break from autopilot, you're laying the foundation for a new neural pathway — and a new version of you.
The more often you do this, the easier it becomes to rewire the identity you’ve outgrown and step into the one that aligns with what you truly desire.
Who do you want to be?