
Life Reimagined: Discovering Your New Life Possibilities

That’s the biggest trigger that I have ever experienced. What are you going to do with the rest of your life? What I had to do, I had to start taking some of my own advice. I had been telling people, I had written about it for a very long time, that if you’re doing something that you’re not totally committed to, if you’re doing something that you’r
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attention to what he was
Richard J. Leider • Life Reimagined: Discovering Your New Life Possibilities
In reality, change happens the other way around. Doing comes first, knowing second. As you do something—start your exploration, get out and look around, gather impressions and information—you start to know what it is that you really want to do. Doing precedes knowing, it turns out.
Richard J. Leider • Life Reimagined: Discovering Your New Life Possibilities
But there’s everything to be gained by taking a hard look at all this stuff. And to ask yourself this repacking question: what are the essentials for the next phase of my journey? Am I just filling my life with stuff? Or am I going after the fulfilling stuff of life?
Richard J. Leider • Life Reimagined: Discovering Your New Life Possibilities
The list of possible fears is endless—and living with fear can become a habitual way of going through life.
Richard J. Leider • Life Reimagined: Discovering Your New Life Possibilities
Here are two questions to help you get unstuck: “Starting where you are, what would be the simplest first step you could take?” And “Who is someone who could take that first step with you?
Richard J. Leider • Life Reimagined: Discovering Your New Life Possibilities
Your challenges for Life Reimagined to “get real” avoid the heart of the matter: you are responsible for shaping your own reality. You’re trying to let yourself off the hook by blaming someone else—and calling it “
Richard J. Leider • Life Reimagined: Discovering Your New Life Possibilities
The point is to examine that story and then to use it to reimagine what’s possible going forward—to use the threads that are the through-lines of your past to weave a new story for the future.