Blogs About "Reinvention"

Yes, I confess to being a novelist. Yes this may sound self serving, but bear with me and read on. If you really want to shake things up and inspire your most creative thoughts read fiction.

If you think this only applies to aspiring authors you are wrong.

Story is where ideas are created, dreams hatched, inspiration launched. Story lets us escape and observe in fictional characters how we want our lives to...

Dana Ostomel is the Chief Gifting Officer for Deposit a Gift, an online cash gift registry site.
This innovative new web based business takes the concept of a bridal registry and expands it to almost any event.


Dana left the Corporate world in late 2007 after nearly a decade developing integrated marketing solutions for major brands including Snapple, Century 21 and Mastercard to found Deposit a Gift.


The gift registry site...

Breakdowns are inevitable. They are more than just a bump in the road. They usually occur when the journey has gotten so bumpy that you're starting to get nauseous. However they can also happen when you think there is only smooth sailing ahead, when out of nowhere a giant pothole looms in front and before you can swerve the car, you are inside of it with no clue how...

I have to be honest. I’ve not actually reinvented myself. Not yet, anyway. My outstanding accomplishment is that I’ve consciously invented myself for the very first time.

What does that mean? For me, it means that I am a person first. I’m a mom, best friend, sister, coach, teacher, entrepreneur, business advisor, avid networker, recovered accountant, athlete and volunteer. I’m living a full and rich life....

I keep wondering whether this whole concept of reinventing our lives is something women are more predisposed to than men. Yes, men change. Yes, I know men who have tossed the corporate hat aside for entrepreneurship. But it seems to me that with men it is more of an evolution as opposed to complete reinvention.



I read everyday about women turning the whole thing upside down and starting over. But I don't...

It looks the way change does.

It's messy.
It requires determination.
It's never perfect.
It means standing in the face of fear.
It means taking the risk you might fail.
It means knowing not taking the risk is a bigger failure.
It means standing in your truth.
It means being willing to compromise as long as you keep moving forward.
It means believing in yourself and what you want to change.
It's uncomfortable.
It can be scary.
It forces you to silence all...

Writing a book is alot like giving birth. I say that never having had children. But I believe it. It is a creation. There is a process to it. The germination of an idea that requires patience and nourishment. It can't be rushed. It knows its own time. If you force it out before it is ready there are going to be problems.

I was in a conversation yesterday about birth. I...

Diane Sawyer has been in the news business for forty years. You would think after all that time she would look the wear of it, have lost the thrill of what got her there in the first place, be jaded and disillusioned. But she's not.

I listened to her off the anchor desk interview with Oprah Winfrey last week. It doesn't take long to figure out why she looks so good. It's...

When I think of genius the first thing that comes to mind is the Genius Bar at the Apple Store. That delightful marketing tool where one of those Apple geniuses will tell you what is wrong with your Iphone.

I think Genius and I think of people like DaVinci, Einstein and Mozart. I think of exceptionally high IQs and strokes of brilliance that change the face of the earth.


I don't...

I had the opportunity to listen to Dr. Christiane Northrup a couple of weeks ago speaking on the Art of Reinvention. She said something about this being the time of year when the sap starts to turn around the trees in preparation for spring. Being the urban girl that I tend to be I will not profess to fully comprehend what that means. But I know enough to understand that winter...