Positive View for You

Your perspective determines your actions, so taking a positive view is essential. Having a positive view will push you to take positive actions with a positive attitude. You can then go through this situation not just surviving but thriving.

How exactly should you view this situation then?

Well, I believe that you should view it as an opportunity to reinvent yourself. View it as your chance to do something new that will take your life to the next level.

Here are some tips on how to re-invent YOU.

1. Identify your core skills.

Reinventing yourself is defined as going a new direction. But best practice is it will be based on the foundation that you have built before. That foundation = Your Core Skillset.

I use ‘core’ to highlight that you need to look deeper. For instance, you might think that your skill is writing articles but your core skill may actually be connecting different ideas and communicating them.

Looking below the surface helps you repackage those core skills in a new way. Using the example above, writing articles is just one way to express your core skills. You may find others.

2. Imagine new possibilities.

Having identified your core skills, you can then imagine new possibilities. Remember on the movie Love Jones when Larenz Tate’s character did his poem and there was the line he said “it’s not that you’ve fallen out of love- you’ve lost sight of the possibilities”. How can you use your core skills to provide value to people in a new way? Get creative. Use your imagination. Kill the negative voices that try to hinder it. Allow yourself to move in an unexpected direction.

3. Ignite your passion for learning.

Along with imagining all the new possibilities, you need to build a passion for learning. Did you just ask why? Because reinventing yourself requires you to learn new things along the way. If you make it a burden, you won’t go far. So make it a delight instead.

I love thinking about all the possibilities. Don’t you? What ways are you thinking of or would you like to reinvent yourself? Please share.

To Your Success,
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MG