1. Identify Your Passions
What do you value?
What gets your engine running?
If you could make a living at a hobby, what would it be?
Getting a handle on what you enjoy and what you love to do, how you love to feel, and whom you love to be around lets you set some big, broad goals.
2. Ask Yourself…
What do I need in my life now?
What do I want?
What’s missing?
Dig deep.
Proactive reinvention tends to arise out of a sense of dissatisfaction about where we are in life or even who we are. We may only know that we want something different.
3. Consider the Unknown
The unknown is scary, but it can also lead to some great discoveries.
There are two big sources of it, the unknown in the external world and the unknown inside of you. Let the possibility of change flourish in you.
4. Learn to Live with Fear
Reinvention requires embracing uncertainty.
It means getting comfortable with discomfort. Doing new things, trying new ways to be is scary!
Allowing fear to stop us from changing is always the biggest block to proactive reinvention. Always.
5. Set Your Priorities
You won’t be able to accomplish everything you need to all at once when reinventing yourself.
Decide what is most important, and work on that goal first.
Prioritize your most-needed or important goals and new habits first so you can make the most of your change process.
6. Experiment
Trying new things, like continuous learning, experimentation exposes you to a whole new world.
Experimentation also helps you take risks, which is important for stretching you beyond your current capabilities.
7. Get a Teacher, Mentor or Sounding Board
These sources can be people who are knowledgeable or experience with the subject matter, profession, hobby, whatever it is that’s appealing to you.
8 Explore all of Your Immediate Options
Immediate options generally include things like your skillset, your finances, your contacts and social links in life.
These can be springboards to the new you.
Think of these as assets you already have to dedicate to your renewal.
