3 signs it’s time for a reinvention

The desire to reinvent oneself is deeply personal.

Sometimes it’s externally motivated—wanting to make more money, have stronger relationships, or live in a new place. Sometimes it’s coming from inside—a yearning to show up differently for your life as you know it.

Despite the personal nature of each reinvention, I’ve noticed some patterns in how people develop a desire to make big changes.

I’ve identified three main drivers of reinvention.

You feel overwhelmed and underwhelmed

Life can feel at times like it’s simultaneously piling up and fading out, leaving you both overwhelmed and underwhelmed.

You’re overwhelmed by expectations and obligations, and underwhelmed from a lack of fulfillment and purpose.

It can feel like you’re going through the motions, operating on autopilot—fine but bored, productive but uninspired.

You may find yourself wondering, Is this really IT?

You know you’re capable of more

You might not even be ready to say it out loud, but you know it: You’re destined for more.

You know you’re capable of playing a bigger game in life or business, and yet you’re struggling to take action.

Feelings of disappointment and longing nag at you.

It may be that you don’t know what to do. Or—and in my experience, usually—it’s that you know what you need to do but your limiting beliefs are holding you back from taking action.

You’re craving change

You’ve been living, working, and being the same way for too long.

Your vision may be murky still but you know it’s time for change—for your life or business to look different than it does right now.

The desire for change, once it takes hold, is hard to shake. And yet, the unknowns can be paralyzing.

What if it doesn’t work out?
What if I’m too old?
What if I embarrass myself?
What if I disappoint people?
What if I go broke?

You can start right now

The temptation is to focus on the “yeah but…” in each of these drivers.

To avoid addressing your feelings of underwhelm by choosing to create more overwhelm.

To collect evidence confirming your limiting belief that someone like you—with your personality, your responsibilities, your lack of resources, etc.—can’t do certain things.

To see fear as a signal to stay the same rather than as a requirement for any meaningful change.

I invite you to place your focus on the aspects of these drivers that register as an inner knowing—a truth that’s deeper and more powerful than what “makes sense” on paper.

If you recognize yourself in any of the drivers of reinvention, just the acknowledgement is a step.

Naming your experience is an action.

No matter your desired outcome, as soon as you’re in action, you’re officially underway in the process of reinvention.

You’re not the same person you were.

You’ve begun.