Reinvention 101: How to Thrive Beyond Your Professional Identity

Unlived dreams and a restless spirit:

It’s time to confront the life you could lead beyond the confines of your job title.

Your career does not preclude you from becoming someone else.

It’s easy to fall into the identity trap wherein you are your title.

You’re not a one-trick pony; look at other avenues of your life.

You’re a spouse, partner, sibling, son, daughter, nephew, niece, parent, brother, sister, grandson, granddaughter, cousin, friend, mentor, and whatever else I may have missed.

When you go to your favorite deli, you’re not your title; you’re the person who always orders a turkey sandwich.

But we gloss over all the categories we fall into because they’re not what we do. We created our careers and invest most of our waking hours into it.

Therefore, that’s who we are, and even worse, that’s all we’re capable of.

When we tie our identity to what we presently do, we bury the unlived life within us.

As we approach the second half of our lives, that unlived life becomes restless; it wants, no it needs, to be seen and heard.