Your internal identity at your core dictates the way you perceive your external reality and attracts experiences into your life to confirm your belief that confirms your identity. Shifting your external reality, then requires a shift of your internal personal identity you move through the world with.
I do a hypnosis version of seeing your best self on a movie screen. I loved that he mentioned that about "As within, so without." It's always such a powerful tool to envision yourself like that.