GET THAT GLOW UP
1. Focus on the Good
Focusing on what is going well will help you take your mind off what isn’t going so well and will also allow you to get yourself out of your rut quickly. What you focus on magnifies. So, you might as well focus on the good stuff.
2. Change Your Diet
Even if you aren’t overweight, incorporating healthier choices into your diet will only have positive results.
Not only might you lose a few pounds but eating more healthy options will make you healthier and over time happier, making it easier for you to naturally reinvent yourself to become a healthier, happier, and better version of you from the inside out.
3. Clear Out Physical Clutter
Get rid of anything that you no longer like, use or need. Clutter is just stuff that isn’t the best of you so why keep it around? To complicate your life any longer than you have to?
By donating, selling and recycling your old stuff, you’ll actually be able to find the real YOU, which is a really easy way to reinvent yourself as the person you always wanted to be.
When you de-clutter properly, what you’re left with is the best possible version of yourself. It’s really motivating to live every day surrounded by the best of who you are right now.
4. Clear Our Emotional Clutter
It’s easier to deal with physical clutter because you can see it. Therefore, you know it’s there. Emotional clutter is much more difficult because it’s affecting how you think and do everything. Yet often, you’re not even aware of it at all.
The way you start to conquer emotional clutter is by becoming aware of your actions and then becoming aware of how you’re feeling throughout the day. This means asking yourself a bunch of questions like:
• How am I feeling?
• Why do I feel this way?
• Is there anything I can change for the better in this moment?
This will help you to become more aware of yourself, your actions, and your feelings. It will also help you to make small changes to be and feel like a newer version of yourself.
5. Switch Up Your Routine
Your life has become so systematized you don’t even need to think about it anymore. That’s when life has become boring and monotonous; you feel unmotivated.
Take a look at your life and see what can be eliminated, changed, or added to help you reinvent yourself.
6. Make Yourself Uncomfortable
People get stuck when they become too comfortable with their lives. We are meant to challenge ourselves! So, try to do something each day that takes you slightly outside your comfort zone. Whatever it is, challenge yourself in some small way. You’ll find that you’ll start to feel more confident and that new opportunities will start to appear.
7. Reinvent Yourself – Get Up and Move
Move something – whether it’s your body, mind and/ or spirit, get something moving because you cannot resolve your issues with the same energy you created them with. Be open to new ideas and new ways of doing things.
To get your mind moving, try reading a book or taking a new course. Get your body moving and the blood pumping exercising.
Whether you choose to move a little or a lot, moving anything will start to help you get unstuck and on your way to reinventing the way you show up in your own life.
8. Express Yourself
Paint. Do yoga. Sing. Play an instrument. Write a short story. It doesn’t matter just get creative and express yourself in some way.
This is a great method to try when reinventing yourself because creativity is just the truth of who you are coming out. It’s safe and healthy and can be a wonderful new avenue for you to explore.
Whether you do it for money or just the plain joy of being creative, we are all creative beings and we all thrive better when we express ourselves in some way.
9. Take It Slow
When we get stuck, we really want to become unstuck as quickly as possible. What we don’t realize is that sometimes, we get stuck for a reason. When we take the time to look at our lives and how we feel about what’s currently going on, it gives us the ability to make small changes that can often have huge, lasting results.
You also don’t need to make huge, dramatic changes in order to reinvent yourself. Often making small, slow changes are the best way to become a new, better version of yourself that is easy for you to maintain. This means you’ve taken the time to really become a better version of yourself – rather than simply acting it out.
10. Create a Vision/Plan of Your Life
You may be stuck now but a great way to feel like you’re on a new path is to create a vision or plan of what you really want your life to look like. Write down what it should look like and feel like. Then, review that plan often. Cut out photos of what your perfect life looks like and paste it to a vision board.
Every day take steps to make those plans a reality and keep going until you actually start to become that vision. Half the battle of reinvention is knowing where you want to be. If you’re not sure what that looks like, a vision board can help gain clarity on what you really want out of life. N.B - Life isn’t always smooth. But when you have the proper tools to navigate it, you can get through the tough times more quickly and with much more grace and ease, than you can if you chose to get out of the situation by using panic and fear as your motivating factors.