Do You Have Identity-based Habits?
4 min readApr 2, 2023
I’ve written about goal-setting in the past and I emphasize process orientation. Combined with a cognitive behavioral approach, process orientation moves individuals away from identifying too strongly with a goal. This approach gives breathing room for behavior change. This isn’t to say that goal identitfication is bad, nor is it to say that focusing on one’s identity should be frowned upon.