REINVENTION

End of one week. Beginning of another. End of one month. Beginning of another. REINVENTION.

Henry David Thoreau once wrote “Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.”

I love this quote not because the feeling of being lost is comfortable, but because being uncomfortable and present in that feeling changes our reliance’s and dependencies. Our senses become our greatest reliance, especially our intuition.

As the month of August comes to an end so does another rather sizable chapter of my life end. This year has not only changed my environment many times over, but it has changed my identity. Where titles, rules, and boundaries used to exist, truth, self-worth, and opportunities have been their replacements. Where static and lack of change once held its comfortable position and consumed a majority of time, constant shifts and reinvention have become the new normal. To navigate constant change requires a level of personal truth.

When we stand in our truth and own all of it – the good and the bad, we own our power. When we own the change we seek, we find alignment. When we face ourselves with depth and curiosity, we have the ability to change our stories, the ones that have happened to us and the ones we have created ourselves. It is only in this negative space that we find the positive, that we are able to let go, forgive, find flow (instead of perfection), and become the courageous designers of our lives.

The process of seeking out our own truths sets us on the path of internal transformation which consciously changes our external lens. A lens not based on fear, but of hope and possibility.

With that the quote of the week:

“There is a fundamental difference between following the path and cutting the path. If what you’re doing feels familiar, if there is already a path to walk, then someone else owns it. The entrepreneurial designer blazes the trail. Design is a method for dealing with the unknown. Design is a way to cut a trail through any forest . . . and find your way home . . .” – Bruce Mau