Ready to Start Over? Here Are 4 Simple Steps to Reinvent Your Skill Set

Freddie Roach is widely considered one of the greatest boxing trainers in history.

He’s won the Trainer of the Year award an unprecedented 7 times, worked with 27 world champions, and completely revolutionized how boxers prepare for a fight.

Before he attained this level of success, he was a professional boxer — with an OK record. Then, he was forced into retirement and found himself doing telemarketing in Los Vegas.

But he had a calling; it was a deep intrinsic yearning to go back to boxing — not out of love for boxing itself — but for the love of competition and the love of strategizing.

Freddie Roach looked to what he loved about the sport, looked to his skill set cultivated over decades of involvement within the sport, and reinvented himself.

One of the most significant and recurring obstacles my clients face, and why they come to me, is the belief that they have to give up everything they’ve worked so hard for to create the life they desire.

They fall into what I call Reinvention Myth #6: The Label Myth.

“I’m a lawyer; I’m a doctor; I’m a sales executive; I’m a CFO/CIO/CEO.”