Wednesday, November 13, 2013

The Ultimate Guide to Reinventing Yourself and more…

Enjoy the gift of today. Let the posts below challenge, inspire, and spark something inside of you.

The Ultimate Guide to Reinventing Yourself and more…


 

The Ultimate Guide to Reinventing Yourself

by James Altucher

Here are the rules: I've been at zero a few times, come back a few times, and done it over and over. I've started entire new careers. People who knew me then don't know me now. And so on.

I've had to change careers several times. Sometimes because my interests changed. Sometimes because all bridges have been burned beyond recognition. Sometimes because I desperately needed money. And sometimes, just because I hated everyone in my old career, or they hated me.

There are other ways to reinvent yourself, so take what I say with a grain of salt. This is what worked for me.

I've seen it work for maybe a few hundred other people. Through interviews, through people writing me letters, through the course of the past twenty years. You can try it or not.

A) Reinvention never stops.

Every day, you reinvent yourself. You're always in motion. But you decide every day: forward or backward.

B) You start from scratch.

Every label you claim you have from before is just vanity. You were a...

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what's the 'big real' of what you're doing?

by Danielle LaPorte

Do you know the story about the two stone cutters? When asked what he's doing, the first man replies, "I'm cutting this stone into bricks." When the second laborer is asked what he's doing, he replies, "I'm building a temple."

How much do we do in a day with our nose to the grindstone? Myopic, focused, making a list and checking it twice. Done. Done. And done.

But what have we done? Really?

There is a Big Real behind everything we do. Sometimes it's a negative Big Real. Sometimes it's a positive Big Real.

I'm not posting to my blog. I'm evoking the truth.

I'm not working on my book proposal to have it to my agent by a certain deadline. I'm writing a book that could spark people into true action, and it's burning inside me, and people want it, and they want it bad.

I'm not cleaning my house, I'm making it a Zen temple in which I can hear myself think and we can cozy up. (Okay, I'm just jokin' with that one. Vacuuming is vacuuming, and it sucks...

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