Don’t be afraid to reinvent yourself. Be bold. Be vulnerable. Step out of who you are.
Have that scary, uncomfortable internal dialogue. Where am I? Am I where I want to be? How did I get here? Is what I’m doing going to help me get to where I want to go?
By reinventing yourself, we go through a process of “moving on”. Not holding onto things we should let go. We learn not to define ourselves by not just our mistakes or “failures” but also the past wins and old successes. Everyday is a new day, requiring a new you.
By reinventing yourself, we give ourselves permission to be wrong. And it’s not the end of the world or your belief system doesn’t come crashing down. To not have to entrench yourself, be closed-minded and “die on the hill”. You can allow for new information to be pertinent and open, what you thought used to be “right” can just be a progression of gathering more information and experiences and just a landmark on the roadmap of learning.
By reinventing yourself, we can reprioritize what’s really important. We can ask ourselves, is this “thing” that I think is so important, that I identify with who I am, might not be exactly what I thought it was or is as important as I once thought. We can realign our priorities and what’s important when we let go of things we think make us who we are but really don’t.
We are a culmination of not just our experiences, but our learned experiences, cognitive patterns and processes. Some might view that as being limited by those things, locked into how we were raised, what we learned, our environment but in fact we can be empowered by them.
By reinventing yourself, we can adopt new mindsets, ideas, growth, development, progression, creativity, meet new people. New thoughts and patterns fire in different parts of our brain, bringing to life new abilities, capabilities, possibilities.
We must be the only species that is able to completely reinvent who we are, based on our environment and circumstances. The trajectory might not be going down a positive outcome but to have the capacity and decision-making ability to choose a different way, toward a different outcome contrary to what should happen to what we would like to happen.
Reinventing yourself is not easy, it requires work, boldness and vulnerability. The way an animal when changing its shell, is exposed and vulnerable but needs to do it to grow and get a bigger shell. Otherwise the shell will be too small and stifling, what once was useful becomes a hinderance. The way old beliefs and patterns can be limiting and keep us small and closed.