You Don't Need to Reinvent Yourself

And oftentimes when we have this new season, this new season, whether it's spring to summer to fall to winter or it's back to school or it's a different season and a transition within your family life or your career, there can be this expectation that so many things must change or we must finally get it all together.

We must finally accept this new identity or adopt this new behavior and everything is automatically going to be fixed or we're going to find all of the solutions to our problems.

And With fall especially, it can be so easy to want to adopt that mindset of this new season, new me feeling, right? Especially with all things fall.

We want to feel comfy.

We want to feel cozy and we want to allow our full reset to fit into those categories, whether it's just new routines or new goals, you know, new organization, new schedule, new habits.

There is an excitement that comes with a new season, but also when we try to reset these areas of our life, it can instantly come into this really critical moment where we start to critique all that we are.

And we start to feel like everything about us needs to change.

But what if you actually didn't need a new version of yourself? What if the version of who you are is perfectly suited for where you currently are standing in your life, right? We always feel like such a pressure to have to reinvent ourselves.

There's always this constant societal driven pressure and pressure within the education system, the corporate world that we must always be moving forward.

We must always be fixing what's not working well, fine tuning all the areas of our life to move forward with this purpose and this intensity.

And We don't have to embrace that.

We don't have to accept that.

We can be who we are in our own timing, at our own pace, and be okay with that entire process.

These new seasons give us this permission to start over.

It gives us this ability to reflect on the previous seasons.

summer, the previous month, the previous few weeks, and think about what worked well, what didn't work well, and then really be intentional with what we take with us moving on to the next season.

And I don't know how frequent you are scrolling social media these days, I feel like anytime we have this new season, it's always a great moment to kind of take a personal audit of what am I spending my time on? What am I spending my free moments on, right? And really allowing yourself to be honest with what matters the most and be honest with where do I really want to turn my attention to? What do I want to fill my heart? What do I want to fill my soul? What do I want to speak confidence over myself and allow me to, you know, dig deep into my identity.

But anytime we reach this new season, especially fall, right? We're like, okay, these are all the recipes we must embrace.

This is all the things that I need to start doing, right? My schedule needs to look like this.

My weekends need to look like this.

You know, these are the way my home needs to look, right? The fun family activities we need to do.

And it can be, it can be a little overbearing and it can be a little dangerous of being in this position of wanting a fresh start, but then also at the same time, falling into the trap of like, I'm doing everything wrong or I'm not good enough, right? Like, yes, the fresh start is a great thing to hold on to, but we don't want to be so critical of ourselves in the process.