Part 1: Getting Started on the New You

What Is Reinvention?

Reinvention is a chance to renew yourself---a chance to take on a new hobby, a new sport, a new pastime, a new cause, or a new life

Leveraging Your Circumstances

The longer you live, the more opportunities you have for reinventing your life! A number of predictable lifecycle events that you will experience may prompt you (or force you!) to reinvent yourself

Assessing Where You Are

So often in life, we look for answers everywhere but within. A fast and effective way to solve many problems is to engage in self-assessment, which can lead to reinvention

Feed Your Head

At any given moment, for whatever you want to accomplish, you always have more convincing, more compelling, and more numerous reasons for not proceeding than for proceeding. Proceed anyway

Overcoming the Impetus of Staying Put

Everything that you have done and experienced up until this point has contributed to the development of who and what you are, and still you have the ability to reinvent yourself. However, you have to overcome the hurdle that ``currently being you'' presents

Part 2: Getting Your Mind in Gear

Resting Your Mind and Your Body

If you have the time, inclination, and curiosity, you can quickly discover all kinds of mind-relaxing, body-smoothing rituals you can initiate that will help you get mellow

Advanced Measures for Your Mind

You need time when you're not trying to accomplish anything specific---even ``relaxing'' or ``having fun.'' You need to have time when you can simply be, with no agendas and nothing to accomplish

Exercising Your Mind

Your muscles get flabby and weak when they're not regularly exercised, and so does your mind. An ``out-of-shape'' mind is a huge obstacle to reinventing yourself

For Advanced Intellects

One of the best ways to learn more about yourself is to learn more about family members---after all, they had an impact on who you have become

Part 3: Reinventing Your Body

Above All, Get Balanced

If your life is about meeting deadlines, constantly competing, chauffeuring others, and racing around the clock, chances are that you're going to be out of balance in a hurry. Attaining and maintaining balance enables you to find the time to get more rested and further reinvent your life

Working Out Versus Spreading Out

Exercising gives us more energy and makes us healthier people, and looking better is sure to make one feel better. What better way to reinvent yourself than to drop those extra pounds and get in shape?

You Are What You Eat (Sort Of)

You can reinvent your eating habits so that every meal you eat---every morsel you put in your mouth---is part of the overall project of reinventing yourself

Physical Feats of Wonder

People who don't get enough physical activity are more likely to develop a wide range of afflictions that can reduce both the quality and the length of their lives

Redesiging Your Outer Shell

With the help of professionals in the art of ``bodily'' reinvention, you can redesign your outer shell in ways that were unknown to or not possible to previous generations

Part 4: Reinventing Your Career

All the Right Moves

Improving the way you manage your career can change the way you feel about yourself and your life

Advancing Your Career in the Electronic Age

Wherever you are in your career, to help you move from where you are to where you want to be, you must continually learn new skills, many of them related to using a computer and accessing the Internet

Written Tools to Transform Your Career and Your Life

By developing effective articles you'll find yourself getting noticed, advancing in your career, and maybe changing your life!

The Makings of a Leader

Success often is based on the ability to lead others. Almost magically, the act of leading others in itself becomes a transforming, self-reinventing process

Speakers Are Leaders

If you're uncomfortable speaking to others but have always had a desire to be a more effective speaker, take heart; this is one aspect of your life that is prime for reinvention

Taking a Sabbatical

The longer your work hours, the greater the odds that you need time away from work. Even if you can't foresee the possibility now, there may be a sabbatical in your future

Part 5: Reinventing Your Relationships

Improving Your Relationship with Your Significant Other

Reinventing your relationship with your significant other, as well as with your children, is a continuing process and is ultimately among the most rewarding

In-Laws and Outlaws

Sometimes the hardest aspect of life in which to reinvent yourself is with family members, because you and/or they become stuck in redundant relationships and play and replay worn-out roles

You Gotta Have Friends

With all the people who come in and out of our busy lives, it's easy to lose sight of the relationships we have with friends and neighbors. Yet, the relationships that you can have with them are an integral part of your life

Part 6: Reinventing Other Aspects of Your Life

Reinventing Your Relationship with Money

Money is one of the most powerful forces in each of our lives; for some of us, it's the main force, and reinventing your relationship with money may be a major issue for you right now

Discovering or Rediscovering Hobbies

There is no reason that each of us cannot rediscover that child within our hearts, allowing him or her to emerge to simply ``play'' again

Reinventing Yourself Through Civic Participation

As our ever-increasing, high-paced culture proceeds into the future, more people are seeking new paths toward fulfillment and happiness, as well as new ways to channel their energies

The Person You've Always Wanted to Be

Drawing upon your emotional intelligence, having mission or vision, offering forgiveness, and accepting the immutable are powerful measures in reinventing your life

Appendixes

A Glossary

B Bibliography

Index