Ways To Reinvent Yourself When You’re Feeling Stuck
This pandemic made people stuck in patterns or habits where it feels hard for them to make a shift in life. But it’s now a new year, how could one make a change? This could be a little daunting for a lot of people so Joyce broke it down into three points: Introspection, Redirection, and Reinvention to help you go through the process of transformation.
Introspection
Starting with the realistic part before entering the inspirational stuff, experiencing the pandemic make people feel they are stuck and unhopeful of the present and future. This disappointment and feeling of being stuck come from the thought that they are not able to give as much as what other people expect from them or even themselves.
Processing one’s emotions is one of best things a person can do because he would be able to go back, reflect and listen to himself. Instead of being an escapist, let’s allow ourselves to feel something and go through an experience or a difficult season of processing feelings. And this is a part of introspection.
This self-assessment can be a way for us to be aware of our strengths along with our weaknesses so that we can see experiences as mere experiences in order to reclaim power over them.
“Find your own strengths and be honest with yourself with the weaknesses, that’s all part of processing your emotions.”
Redirection
This idea is also perceived as visualization, setting of goals, and finding out where one sees himself this year. After going back to all the difficulties of the past year, it is now time to start moving and start looking at the bright new year ahead by claiming it. Starting the year with positivity contributes a lot for it to be beautiful, therefore let’s us be redemptive and hopeful.
Visualize that our goals this year are to be filled with good goals, be purposeful, fun and we will just enjoy despite the presence of continual difficulties. It’s totally fine if we’re not into creating goals. But if we desire to try something new, we could start writing down some goals!
Make sure to write those goals down because it will be easier to visualize them and see them happen in real life. And in writing the goals, the next thing to do is to set realistic mini-goals. Huge or overarching goals are done week by week and day by day. That’s how people achieve goals. Not instantaneously or in just a blink of an eye.
“When people have the same goal in mind, they work, help, and take care for each other and that’s a very beautiful thing.”
Reinvention
With whatever goal a person has in mind, reinvention would be a great conversation to be talked about bearing in mind that it can be daunting for a lot of people. This is why reinvention is an important conversation because it’s time to get unstuck and step on this year with a fresh, new perspective.
In searching for our purpose in life, we must first be courageous enough to become something and get out of our comfort zone. Easier said than done, if we want to reinvent ourselves, we must be courageous enough to take risks. It doesn’t have to be big things, we can do things that are adventurous no matter how big or small it is as long as it is something outside of our comfort zone.
Reinvention means taking the core of your being and learning that you can actually mold and change everything around you. Limiting oneself is boring, so just try! And if it becomes a failure, it’s okay because humans are designed to be able to hurdle everything and still be successful.
From Episode 81 of Adulting with Joyce Pring: “WAYS TO REINVENT YOURSELF WHEN YOU’RE FEELING STUCK”
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