reinventing yourself for the future
The future is not what it was. We all need change in our lives from time to time to shake things up and approach our Leadership, family, work and careers with a refreshed enthusiasm.
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change” – (Charles Darwin)
Unhappy with your current situation–at work or in your career or life? Are you getting bored with your job or feel like you’re in one great big rut? Is doing what made you successful in the past no longer working for you?
If so, then maybe it’s time to reinvent yourself!
Some people aren’t looking to just improve themselves–some need completely new beginnings and to reinvent themselves entirely.
The good news is that you can always attain a future that is different from your present.
Personally, I have reinvented myself severally in my personal life, career, marriage and my biggest reinvention experience was when I received the divine call to start a house fellowship in my house which Eventually became a Parish called: Fountain of Grace , Redeemed Christian Church of God in the United Kingdom. I reinvented myself from a Specialist Radiograher to a Parish Minister.
“So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future.” — Jon Krakauer
There is a story in the bible that always reminds me of the necessity of reinvention.
“Most assuredly, I say to you , unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies , it remains alone, but if it dies, it produces much grain”.
Reinvention is dying to old self, it involves letting go of old mind set , outdated habits , routines ,way of doing thing to a new way of doing thing and mind set.
In the story above, the old grain has so much seeds , potentials inside it. But until it is planted, that is, buried in the ground for days, it will remain alone even though it has so much seeds and potentials inside.
After it is planted , the single grain will become alive again and bear much fruit, greater potentials. Like the grain, if we must enhanced our potential and become more productive we must die to old habits so that we can bear much fruits, become more in life.
This affect every domain in life: health, finance, career, marital , physical and spiritual domains. Your life will never get better by chance but by choice.
Therefore, reinvention is a choice everyone must made to fulfil destiny.
Therefore, you must make a choice to take a chance otherwise your life will not change.
If you always do what you always have done , you will always get what you have gotten. Just like an established product and brand needs updating to stay alive and vibrant , you periodically need to refresh or reinvent yourself for success.
To reinvent yourself means changing the direction and trajectory of your life.
It means making a new set of choices and forging down a new path that expands opportunities, options, and possibilities.
The process through which something is changed so much that it appears to be entirely new.
To create something new that is based on something that already exists.
Reinvention is letting go of stuff currently holding you back.
It means getting unstuck.
It involves setting new goals and finding new solutions for major challenges.
The dinosaur is extinct today because it did not adapt to its changing habitat and increased competition for the limited resources within the ecosystem.
Many people and organisations have become dinosaurs or in danger of becoming one because they did not anticipate and/or adapt to change, consequently becoming irrelevant.
Reinvention means change: nothing more, nothing less.
JF Kennedy, the 55th American President once said, “Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future. “
The Big Questions:
- What things must I let go of to move forward?
- What things are currently holding me back or keeping me stuck
- What things don’t support my vision for my life and for the person I wish to become?
- What people, places, situations, habits, and beliefs might hold me back from making the necessary changes I desire to make?
- How will I begin to let go of all these things?
- What short-term sacrifices will I need to make?
By reinventing yourself, you will create the future you desire.