When I was on my summer sabbatical, I had a lot of good insights. When I change the daily ‘landscape’ and rhythm of my life, it changes my perspective. Shakes things up a bit, helps me to see things I didn’t see before. I always find it useful, and usually surprising.

One thing that became clear to me, as I thought about my Reinvention Revolution blog, was that I haven’t been sharing much about my own current reinvention journey. It’s been a conscious choice of mine not to share more about myself as a reinventer, because it was never my intention to make the blog about me. I really want the blog to offer hope, inspiration, and how for you reinventers, as you make your way through your own reinventions.

My change of heart came when I acknowledged to myself that I wasn’t being as real as I could be in the blog. Yes, I am a professional life coach, and I could write completely from that perspective, of course, but I’m also a very real reinventer myself. I feel like I haven’t been telling the whole story.

I’ve redesigned and recreated myself and my life in major and minor ways, consciously and intentionally, for almost 20 years. So I have a lot of experiences to illustrate the journey. A lot of learnings, and a lot of tools and processes that I have designed and refined for myself on my journey.

And I am convinced that we are all reinventers, because we are all evolving all the time. I’m focusing this blog specifically for reinventers who are consciously choosing to reinvent, but we are all to one degree or another reinventing all the time. So it feels somehow dishonest not to talk about my own process of reinvention in addition to sharing all the tips, tools, strategies, and examples I have from my professional experience.

It’s a choice, of course, and my gremlins have a lot to say about how people won’t take me seriously as a professional life coach if I ’spill the beans’ on my own imperfections as a reinventer, but that is the risk I ‘have’ and want to take. It just feels right to share more about my own personal reinvention experiences. All of it: the frustrations as well as the powerful insights and joys. I don’t expect my clients to be perfect or ‘finished’, and I don’t expect that of myself either.

So, I’ll post my own personal experience, with my current reinvention, in the category “Adventures of a Reinventer”. It’s my intention to ‘check-in’ often enough to give you a sense of the ebbs and flows along the way.

Filed under: Adventures of a Reinventer on September 24th, 2007