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What are the five biggest tips for someone who is ready to reinvent their life?
I just finished reading Claire Cook’s book “Never To Late Your Roadmap to Reinvention” and this book is filled with golden nuggets and tips for anyone who is ready to reinvent their life.
The five biggest tips are:
· Rise above the negativity. Whatever the motive, lots of people will tell you why you can’t or shouldn’t do whatever it is you want to do. You can’t get every person out of your life that is negative. You just have to decide how to handle them and go about your business.
· Be who you really are. The big buzzword these days is branding, but I think of it as authenticity. Don’t pretend to be something you aren’t; just be a slightly different person.
· Confound expectations. If everybody’s doing it, it’s already been done. So, put a little surprise in everything you do. Originality counts!
· Do something nice for someone. It’s easy to get needy when you’re struggling to figure out what’s next, but many of the great things that have happened were triggered by something nice I did for someone else. People talk — your actions speak…
