Reinventing Yourself

Reinvent Your Life By Taking Care of Yourself

With the new year upon us it is time to think of how you can be good to yourself. Thinking of others and putting them first is a noble gesture, but you will be able to help other people much more easily if you take care of yourself first. You can reinvent your life by following these 7 steps:

Reinvent Yourself by only doing what you have a passion for

It may sound selfish to only do what you love to do, but really the opposite is true. Do what you are passionate about and love to do and everything good will come to you. We have all heard stories of people who followed their passion and great things came to them. There is always someone else who has a passion for what you do not like doing, so let that person do it.

If you are searching for happiness, joy, great riches, or anything else in your life - do what you love to do each and every day and these things will come to you, as if by magic.

Reinvent Yourself By Renewing the Joy Inside of You

Happy Holidays and thank you to all of my readers. Here is a beautiful movie about "Inner Christmas". Regardless of your faith, this a joyous way to think about this time of year. It is about 4 minutes long and you do not need to sign up at the end. It is my gift to all of you for taking the time to reinvent your life. Click here for the movie.

Reinvent Your Life by reaching for the better feeling thought

Many people are stuck, at least temporarily, in jobs they dislike. Think back to when you first took the job. What was it that made you feel good about it? Maybe it was just the money you would earn, or the fact that it was close to home, or perhaps you had dreams of the job leading to a better position at some point in the future. Reach for that feeling and see if you can imagine that it turned out the way you had originally hoped. Feeling as if what you want is already here is part of the process of reinventing yourself.

Positive Thinking, Positive Believing

Positive thinking is a nice concept. Thinking that everything you want will come your way because you just have a feeling that it's coming simply doesn't work. You must deeply believe that these things are coming to you in your life. So what makes the difference between thinking and believing? ACTION!

You must take action for anything to change in your life. So think about how you will reinvent yourself, meditate about it, but then you absolutely must take action. It will seem like hard work in the beginning, maybe for quite awhile. But once you get used to the idea of positive believing, magic will happen. This is also called "acting as if". Act as if the things you want have already occurred in your life. Feel that feeling of well-being that you are expecting to come once you have accomplished specific things in your life. When you can call up that feeling at will you will be on your way to positive believing and everything that comes with that expectation.

Reinventing Yourself Through Your Passion

I have shared a little about myself over the course of the past year since starting this blog. I have been going through the process of reinventing myself during this time and I would like to share that with all of you. You have been there for me as I developed my own passion for writing. I would like to invite you to read about what I am doing over at Ebook Writing and Marketing Secrets. I am now living the life I love after spending the past year reinventing my life completely. If you have any interest in writing, join me in learning how to write, market and sell an ebook on the internet. Writing has been the most important aspect of my reinvention process.

Reinventing Your Life After The Loss Of A Loved One

This Christmas Eve will mark the second anniversary of the death of my closest friend. We had been friends since childhood, and his death was sudden and unexpected. After work on Christmas Eve, Tory had stopped in the park near his home where we had spent so much time as children. He ate a sandwich and sat on the bench, and I like to think he was eagerly awaiting the holiday festivities that would begin at his home in the next few hours. Instead, he choked on the meat in his sandwich and he was not found until the following morning. I will never get over this tragic loss of this special man, but I have come to accept his death as part of life. Tory had reinvented his own life over the course of the last several years. As I prepare to celebrate the holidays this year I will say a prayer that he knew how much we all loved him.

Tory on his way to Cancun in 1992.

Reinvent Your Life By Keeping a Journal

Writing every day in a journal can be helpful when you are in the process of changing your life. Whether you are just writing down your thoughts and feelings, or you are thinking about writing a book or ebook, journal writing will help you to get in touch with the person you are becoming.

Be sure to date each entry so that you can look back at it in the weeks and months ahead and see how far you have come. Write down your hopes, dreams, and goals for the life you are creating for yourself.