1. Get to know yourself. Developing self-awareness is the first step to reinventing yourself. Do a personality test to know your personality preferences, strengths, challenges and needs. Assess what characteristics and skills you want to develop and habits you need to change.
2. Create a vision. If you don't know what your future
looks like, how can you create it? Imagine what it would look and feel like to
be the new you. Vision boards are a fantastic way of letting yourself know what
you want to. Create a vision
board complete with pictures, statements for the future, clothes
you will wear, money you will make, etc. Dream big – and capture it on paper.
3. Develop an action plan. Using key goals from your vision, write out a step-by-step plan for attaining each of these goals. Identify possible pitfalls or obstacles to your plan so that you can plan in advance how you are going to deal with them. Take action and work those goals. Even a small step on your plan each day will move you closer to your vision. Make checklists for everything.
4. Develop tolerance to criticism. As much as they love you, friends and family don't always like it when you start to change. Prepare yourself for criticism, skepticism or even blatant sabotage. You may have to help others adjust to your new self and lifestyle, and let go of those who can't. Most importantly, don't let anyone talk you out of doing what you know in your heart is the right thing for you.
5. "Fake it 'til you make it." You can't just decide to be different without working at it. You have to act the part before it becomes natural to you. This is the step that trips most people up because they don't like what they are feeling. Prepare to feel anxious, embarrassed and uncomfortable as you try on the new you. You are going to feel like a fake, but accept it and don't give up.
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