Reinventure Me

Apprentices have been around a long time. But we often discard the habit of thinking like an apprentice after we’ve gained some footing in the workplace. It shouldn’t be that way, especially if you’re contemplating your next great beginning.

In this episode of the Reinventure Me podcast Leary and Armin discuss four reasons why you should practice the art of being a lifelong apprentice:

These benefits come only when we intentionally consider and pursue mentoring relationships. It’s not easy, but extremely valuable as our Inspire Me quote reminds us:

“Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher.” — Japanese proverb

The Challenge Me segment suggests the following exercise: take some time to reflectively consider and write down your answers to these questions:

Our next episode will discuss how to find and get great mentors. If you have a specific idea or topic that you’d like us to cover, please let us know.

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We’ve all been beginners. But in our haste to develop competency, do we give much thought to how to become a better beginner?

This episode of the Reinventure Me podcast explores what it takes to become a better beginner. Every transition is about a new beginning. And, yet, even if you’re not in the midst of a transition, there’s good reason to practice becoming a better beginner. Leary Gates and Armin Assadi have a lively discussion about beginnings, the famed 10,000 hour rule and what’s missing from that and five things you can do to become a better beginner.

The show starts with an Inspire Me quote from Eugene F. Ware:

“All glory comes form daring to begin.”

And suggest five simple things you can do to become a better beginner:

Leary and Armin personally accepted the Challenge Me challenge: to start something they’ve never done in the next four weeks. They share that in this episode and will be tracking their progress as they go. Will you do the same? What new thing could you start in the next four weeks?

In the Resource Me segment, Leary and Armin offer six questions you can ask yourself before you take up something and explain why these are important to consider:

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Our next episode will be about being a more intentional apprentice. If you have a specific idea or topic that you’d like us to cover, please let us know.

https://reinventure.me/wp-content/uploads/The average adult will make 7-11 job changes over the course of their career. Many of those may involve significant career changes as well. That’s a lot of change. And it affects the way we think about ourselves.

This episode of the Reinventure Me podcast is about identity and work…and change. What you do matters to God. Yet what you do is not entirely who you are; neither is it something we should ignore. Instead, your show hosts Leary Gates and Armin Assadi discuss how identity—work and being—is a creative endeavor; one that requires continual discovery.

The show kicks off with an Inspire Me quote from Thomas Merton:

“If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I think I am living for, in detail, and ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully the thing I want to live for. Between these two answers you can determine the identity of any person. The better answer he has, the more of a person he is.”

And concludes with the ABCs of identity discovery from the Challenge Me segment:

A – Ask the questions Merton suggests: What am I living for? What is keeping me from it?

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Are you comfortable with yourself as a “work in progress?” Or do you have high expectations and get frustrated when new tasks don’t come easily? Maybe you even call yourself names in the process?

The way we view our capabilities—whether they’re fixed or malleable—can play a critical role in how well we unleash our next great beginning.

This episode of the Reinventure Me podcast is dedicated to an important resource to have in your arsenal. Your show hosts Leary Gates and Armin Assadi take a look at the book Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck and discuss the two types of mindset.

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The “fixed mindset” believes that you have fixed or innate traits and makes you more concerned with how you’ll be judged by others. A “growth mindset,” on the other hand, is focused on improving. They view failure as less of an indictment of capability as much as inexperience.

Leary shares a personal story when he suddenly discovered that his fixed mindset thinking had taken him down a career path not ideally suited to his interests. The good news is that everyone can overcome fixed mindset thinking and Leary and Armin use that illustration to discuss the three reasons why our mindset is important to consider in transitions and the three indicators that we might have a fixed mindset.

In the Challenge Me segment of the show, Leary offers three steps to transform fixed thinking into growth thinking and shares a recent example from his own life in applying these steps.

We’d love to hear your fixed mindset stories. Please let us know by commenting below or leave a voice mail for us on our home page. 

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Our next episode will be a discussion about how new beginnings affect our identity so if you have a specific comment around that topic that you’d like us to cover, please let us know.

What’s the worst job you’ve ever had? How did it affect you? Even good jobs might leave us in need of a little repair.

In this episode of the Reinventure Me podcast, your show hosts Leary Gates and Armin Assadi discuss what makes a job toxic and five strategies you can take to detoxify:

The Inspire Me segment quote was from Mike Mason (Practicing the Presence of People, Waterbrook Press, 1999):

“The goal of Christian spirituality is not to feel good but to fight well.”

In the Challenge Me segment Leary asked, What’s your dashboard light? That’s your personal indicator that something’s amiss. It may be that you get more easily angered, or quiet, or you lose your sense of humor. Knowing our personal dashboard lights can help us recognize more quickly when we are in a toxic environment.

We hope you enjoyed this episode. In our next episode we’ll be discussing why having a growth mindset is vitally important to finding your next great beginning. If you have a question or comment, please leave it below or call in from our home page.

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Is your job driving you nuts? How do you know if that discontentment you’re feeling means it’s time to move on?

In this episode of the Reinventure Me podcast, your show hosts Leary Gates and Armin Assadi talk about the two types of discontentment. Unhealthy discontent that asks for more and healthy discontent that seeks different. There is a difference.

You know when you have unhealthy discontentment when you feel envy, jealousy or anger. Healthy discontent, on the other hand, is displayed by a loss of energy for your current job. And that’s probably because you’ve out grown it.

This episode explores three things we can do to get a handle on our unhealthy discontent:

And when we’ve got a dose of healthy discontent, these three strategies can help:

In our Challenge Me segment Leary suggested an exercise to find what roles might make for a better fit. Over the next several weeks, keep a log of the things that energize you as well as those that deplete you. Evaluating where you’re drawn over a period of time will give you a broader perspective of activities that you’re designed to do.

Finally, we ended the show asking a question: What’s the worst job you’ve ever had?  Leave a comment below or call in and let us know. Strategies to detoxify from a previous employer is the subject of our next episode.

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There’s one question you should never stop asking: What do I want to be when I grow up?

Get acquainted with Leary and Armin as they laugh about the many transitions that they’ve made over the years and share their vision for this podcast.

In the Inspire Me segment of the show you’ll hear why something that’s absent from a verse in the Bible (Ephesians 3:15-16) can encourage you right where you are today.

Every episode of Reinventure Me will feature a Challenge Me segment that offers a practical thing you can do to find your next great beginning. This episode’s challenge is a visioning exercise: What will you be in two years? In this episode, Leary provides some suggestions on how to find out.

Reinventure Me is about finding your next great beginning, so we’d love to hear from you. Please leave a message for us with any questions or comments you have about this show or about transition in general. Share a story, a tip, a great quote or word of encouragement. We’d love to hear from you and feature your message on our show.

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