This is Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby, and you're listening to the Love, Happiness, and Success

podcast.

The band is eyelids with the song Furthest Blue.

I like that song for our show today because it's the idea of creating this idealized future,

you know, somewhere off in the distance but close enough so that we can see, right? And I thought that would be a

wonderful intro for our time together today, because today we are talking about how to reinvent

yourself in a very intentional and also meaningful way. And that's the important part. I think the idea of reinventing oneself,

you know, having a fresh start, a new life segment where you get to be different, is so

appealing because it's this like sense that it's possible to step from one plane of existence into another and just a

different direction, a different trajectory. It almost has a whiff of magic about it, right?

You know, this idea that you could say legitimately to yourself and to others, I am different now. That was then, this is now.

Things have changed, right? I think that we all want to have that experience in some ways,

but it's a lot easier to say that than it is to actually do it. I mean, how does one accomplish a

reinvention? The accessible parts of reinvention are the ones that, you know, we can often

buy or do, right? So it's parts of reinvention that are physically obvious or even circumstantial.

You know, we can, you can cut off all your hair, you can quit your job, sell your house and

move into a van. You can do the act of reinvention and in some ways, you know, achieve it in the

sense that you're living in a different reality or maybe looking different,

but you can't quit yourself. You can't cut off a part of your personality, right? I mean,

unless you know how to do a much more meaningful reinvention process, you're still going to be the same you, right?

Thinking the same thoughts, harboring the same core beliefs that then become your filter

for the world, you'll have the same reactions to people, you'll say the same things or do

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