Reinvention Is An Act - Not A Destination

This is a guest post from Donna L. Johnson, the SpeakingDiva.

 

I had the privilege of speaking to a large group of unemployed professionals last week and the talk was centered around reinvention.  I didn’t even know at the time of my talk that reinventyourlifewithpassion.com existed.  However, as Connie Ragen Green would say, “There are no coincidences.”

 

The message I delivered to my audience resonated with them because I immediately opened up and shared my personal story – a story that closely mirrored their current situation.  I talked about being laid off twice within one year (to no fault of my own) and the uncertainty I felt when I didn’t have a job.  But despite those things, I looked at that time in my life as an opportunity to renew myself and follow my dreams.  Thus, DonnaSpeaks.com was born.  Never again did I want to be faced with having all of my eggs in one basket when it came to providing for my family by having only one source of income.  From that point on I realized that we must adapt a mindset of renewal. 

 

renew (v): to repeat so as to reaffirm; revive; to replenish; to bring into being again, reestablish; to start over.

 

I’d always known that my life’s purpose extended far beyond corporate

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