Your Reinvention Arc

Think of a moment in your professional or personal life when you changed — your role, your style, your direction, or your sense of who you are.

The Before State

Describe who you were at the start of this arc — your role, your style, how you presented yourself professionally. Write two or three specific details, not generalities.

First Signal

What was the first sign that something needed to change — inside you, or around you? Name one concrete moment or event.

what triggered it

→

how I first noticed

The Turning Point

When did you make a deliberate choice — or when did circumstances force one? Mark where the real shift happened on the spectrum below.

Fully forced on me

Fully my own decision

The After State

Describe who you became. What changed visibly — to others, in your work, in how you spoke or acted? What stayed exactly the same? Sort both sides honestly.

What changed

What stayed constant

What You Thought It Meant

At the time, what story did you tell yourself about why this change happened? Write the version you believed then — not the one you believe now.

What It Actually Means

Look back at step 3 — your turning point. Does your original reading of it still hold? Write one sentence that revises or deepens what you said in step 5.

The Meaning in Hindsight

Choose ONE word that captures what this entire arc was really about — the meaning only visible now, looking back. Then write one sentence explaining why that word and not another.

Why that word?

Discuss Share your one word with a partner — and ask them whether they see the same thing in you that you see in yourself.

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