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…..Continued from Yesterday It’s not uncommon to think of personal reinvention as being somewhat contrived or manipulative. But reinventing you isn’t about becoming what you are not, but more of who you are. It’s about taking control of your life and living strategically. Who do you want to be? And what do you need to get there?” It’s about making sure that our personal brands reflect the reality of our lives. But in doing this, you need to be hyperaware of what you’re doing and make sure you’re signaling explicitly to the outside world what you’re trying to build. This is where doing the homework —know your higher self—will help you to have the fortitude to press on. Make no mistake is very easy to give it up and resort to the old habits of behavior, hence it is important to keep monitoring your reputation to ensure others perceive you the way you’d like by keep projecting the new behavior until you’re comfortable with it and others begin to accept it as the new “normal.” Y...

I’m certainly not normal.   I was born obsessed, larger eyeballs, flat buttocks, blond-haired, blue-eyed, and colorblind.   So not only do I look different – I also see differently than “normal”  people.   To make matters worse, I’m left-handed… just a cesspool of recessive genes.   This is how many of us have seen our lives; we failed to realize that “normal” was only a concept in one’s mind.   In fact, “normal” wasn’t the same as everyone else’s. Some even go a bit further my “normal” was unique.   And in fact it was just a way of limiting theirselves, a concept rooted in fear to begin with. Realize that you are not like anyone else on earth.   No one on this planet is exactly the same as you are, even if you have a twin.   It’s not even close.   Your individual collection of experiences makes you unique. Yet what do most people do with this uniqueness?   They try to forget it.   They cling to the pack, thinking that ne...