So, several things have occurred over the past 7 months that have caused a reinvention, a new thing in my life. I will be quite honest, before COVID-19 I was stuck in a rut; literally. I was bound by routine and complacency. Frankly, I was in a personal insanity of doing the same old thing over and over. When COVID happened, I had to go home, teach my own child, but I got delivered from routine and complacency. For once, I was able to just breathe and create. I was able to get to know my children better. I tell you what, if COVID -19 is wrong then I don't won't to be right. The new word on the street is, "NEW NORMAL!" I tell you the truth, I am not accepting a new normal but I will accept a new level. Yes, I am going to a new level in my life. Here are 3 steps to reinventing yourself and embracing your new level.
Step 1 EMBRACE
Yes, embrace the new normal and go to your next level. Embrace change and run with it. Use the new normal as a stepping stone and spring forward. Ask yourself, what is that thing or your real passion. Maybe you don't know what's your passion because, you have been told what to do everyday of your life. What is something you won't to do but never get a chance to do ever. Once you know it, pursue it. Don't ask yourself questions and talk your way out of it or come up with a million things that can go wrong. Just DO IT!!!! My sister wrote her first book. It's one book but she moved past fear and rejection and grabbed hold of her new thing. It's a great story and now she sells it on Kindle. Amazon sells as well and they even made hard copies for her as well. It's not exactly how she wants it yet but she did it anyway. It's called, Sunday Bless and I just love it!
Step 2 TRY NEW THINGS
I have always told myself for years, "I'm not crafty." I have said, "I'm not artsy." But deep down I just love arts and crafts. For some reason, my confidence in creating was not there. All I can remember is maybe I created something when I was little but I was never validated and so I believed that I was not creative as a truth, as fact. That was simply not true. The truth is every wrong has a right and every lie has truth. The awesome most important thing is that negativity can be reversed if you want to. Recently, I started making wreaths. First, I made one for my classroom door and when my peers complimented it, I got the validation that I craved so long ago as a little girl. Well that gave me strength and I felt like I could make another and so I did. My mother loved my fall wreath so much that she asked me to make her a Christmas one. Then my sister saw the Christmas wreath I created and offered to send money to make her one as well. It's not about the wreath. The point is that I found something new and I love it and it makes me happy. It makes me happy to make someone else happy. The unknown is the thing that can turn your life around. Write this sentence several times and fill in the blank: I am_______________.
Who are you? I mean really?
Step 3 JUST BE HONEST
Be honest! Say, " I'm stuck and I don't know what to do about it. Now release yourself from your 9-5 job for just a moment and just breathe. Release yourself from the shackles of the old and walk into your new. Confess, "I am ready for the new." Maybe you are stuck in a career or any other situation. I'm not saying quit your job or leave your family. All I'm saying is be open to new possibilities or new relationships. I a teacher from 7am-3pm but that's not all that I am. I am a mother, a sister, a wife, and a friend but that's not all that I am. In the next 14 years I don't want to retire and that's it. I am reinventing myself now so that I will still have purpose. We get so caught up in everything else and everyone else that we forget about ourselves. Sometimes we lose our self identity in everything else. Find time for you what ever that maybe. Love yourself!
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