What´s the exact meaning of reinvent?

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If this is the meanig of reinventing yourself, I am in a period of reinventing myself. It´s very difficult to improve.

I have to buy some shoes, skirts to look better. I´m doing pilates twice a week. 

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Shedding those layers of false self is liberating!

keep going!

Much Love and yes, I encourage and speak from my own experience.

Karen

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Working toward a goal, endeavoring to succeed in a positive achievement (whether it's for yourself personally or for the benefit of others), following a path that you feel destined to follow.....and for which you need to make certain changes in your lifestyle or habits....are NOT examples of reinventing yourself.

As was briefly mentioned in one of the above posts, they are examples of getting in touch with or AFFIRMING your true self. You are not changing or "reinventing" yourself. You are using your innate abilities and talent. You still are being who you really are.  You're just perfecting those aspects of the real you. 

Ever heard the expression "Trying to reinvent the wheel"?  A wheel (basically) is a wheel. You can ...er... spin it all you want.  It's still a wheel. You are who you are.  You can't change that, you just have to learn to accept, affirm, rejoice and improve, if you feel you have to.  You don't reinvent a whole new person by, say, starting an exercise regime or losing weight or becoming a vegetarian.  You still ARE WHO YOU ARE.  You are merely learning new aspects of the person you have always been.  You don't BECOME another person (aka: "reinvent yourself"). 

You will always be who you are. But you can always be a better you.

"Improvement" is in the eye of the beholder.  Improvement is not reinvention.  Change?  Maybe.  But not a new wheel.  You're just surrounding yourself with a new, improved, up-dated model of car, so to speak.

Remember, change doesn't come from the outside.  Trappings mean nothing if the inside is damaged.  You want to reinvent yourself?  Try working from the inside out. Sure, you can lose weight to avoid being called names by morons. But what happens when they start calling you names because your feet are too big (or something else you can't change)?

Reinventing is making yourself over (or trying to) into something you are not, never was, never will be nor should be. And usually true  Reinvention is done in an effort to gain approval or acceptance from others or for avoidance of reality.  I.E. If you decide to commence an exercise routine or diet strategy, are you doing it for yourself....for your health....toward a goal of, say, running in a marathon? Or are you doing it to keep a lover happy? Fit in with friends? Avoid cruel comments from idiots? There's a difference, and the difference is in the Reason. In the first example, the Reason is that you're doing it for YOU. In the second,  the Reason is you're doing it for OTHERS. You can't control others, their stupidity, arrogance, exclusivity, prejudice or insults. You can only control how you react to them.  The older you get, the more you lean to value what's inside.  "Outsides" are too subject to change or damage.  "Insides" can stay pristine, pure and are will always be your true essence. 

Like a building must start construction from the foundation upwards, so too must a person start building from the bottom up or "inside out". Begin on the inside, then put up the decorations outside. You're not 'reinventing' the building, you're merely enhancing the bones and structure that was always there.
Linda

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