| We've all heard of or known people who have | | | | keep current with music industry trends based on |
| ditched their successful careers, given up the | | | | the rapidly changing demographics for pop culture. |
| stability of the life they've created and switched | | | | Even as Madonna enjoyed her phenomenal |
| gears to go in a new direction and become | | | | successes in music, she took unpopular risks as |
| something or someone else. It's not easy nor is it | | | | she navigated new reinvention ventures; actor, |
| safe, but it's a way get back on track and pursue | | | | record producer, film producer, fashion designer, |
| our unfulfilled dreams and potential. Sometimes it's | | | | author, director, wife, mother and philanthropist. |
| a reflection of how we've changed and what we | | | | Not bad for a dancer, singer, songwriter, guitarist |
| now want or need. | | | | and percussionist. |
| We have all reinvented ourselves in some | | | | Think about how quickly we reinvent ourselves |
| capacity at some point in our lives. Sometimes it's | | | | during a crisis. We barely have time to think about |
| a conscious, calculated choice we make, like | | | | it, let alone choose. It's done. All other matters are |
| pursuing a dream. Other times the reinvention is a | | | | no longer important. Imagine that you're going |
| product of necessity, when we are forced to | | | | about your life, showing up at work, taking care |
| change by external factors, like becoming a | | | | of the kids and the house and then WHAM, |
| caregiver for an aging parent, the victim of a | | | | catastrophe strikes. All of sudden your world is |
| crime or are we find ourselves in a health crisis. | | | | literally turned upside down and your reinvention |
| Most of the time, people reinvent themselves | | | | consumes your life. You surrender to your new |
| because of their circumstances, making the | | | | role. You re-prioritize your life based on the |
| reinvention a "must." When we're contemplating | | | | external event. |
| making a shift to pursue a goal or dream, we | | | | Choosing our own reinvention doesn't rate very |
| often categorize it as a "should." But shouldn't we | | | | high for most people. We find we're better at |
| classify our goals and dreams as "musts?" The | | | | cleaning up than we are at putting our energy and |
| answer is absolutely, positively YES! | | | | attention into creating what we truly want. |
| Successful people are already using this strategy. | | | | Take it from me; a welfare kid, waitress, beauty |
| We all have the capability to have success if we | | | | queen, battered woman, heavy equipment |
| choose to apply the reinvention tool by choice. | | | | operator, Desert Storm veteran, police officer, |
| Whether we like Madonna or not, her successful | | | | undercover detective, SWAT team member, |
| music career is not her only highlight in life. | | | | author, speaker, life coach, wife, and step-mom. |
| Madonna's unparalleled ability to reinvent herself | | | | We are not what we do. We are the result of a |
| over the last three decades places her in "a | | | | compilation of the experiences in our lives. Every |
| league of her own." | | | | door opened to us and closed behind us |
| Madonna was keenly aware of the necessity to | | | | represents an opportunity for reinvention. |