Hi, Reader,

Do you ever have this feeling like you’re waiting to arrive at some steady and settled place in your life?

I’ve been feeling this.

Over the past two years I’ve reinvented almost every aspect of my work, my business, and in many ways, myself.

After spending a decade speaking and teaching and writing about happiness and emotional fitness, I shifted my focus to helping people use change as their catalyst to grow, to do more of what energizes them, and become who they are meant to be.

This was a natural evolution of my work and thinking:

We can’t feel happy if we are not living a life that is true to who we are.

If we are not growing and expanding into who we are meant to be.

But at the same time, it was a huge change and reinvention.

I came up with a new REINVENT•ABILITY Framework, with 5 steps to guide people to grow through change.

I wrote a new keynote, The REINVENT•ABLE Mindset, and worked with a team for almost a year to create a new speaker reel.

I changed the messaging on my website… about 1000 times.

I came up my now signature offering, the Unleash Your Next Accelerator, where I guide a small group of people to stop waiting and do the thing that’s been pulling at them.

These have been big changes, but perhaps one of the biggest was deciding, on my 49th birthday, to stop hiding as an artist.

I dared myself to do an art show in my 50th year, even before I knew where or how I could do it.

And this past February I did my first international art show in Mexico City, part of their international art week.

It was one of the most challenging and most meaningful things I’ve done, and I’m still processing it, weeks later.

(I have more to share about it with you soon.)

PHEW. That is a lot of change and reinvention.

And I thought to myself: “OK, good, I’m here. I’ve arrived at the new steady state.”

Except I haven’t.

In the past few months I’ve completely reinvented my new keynote. Yes, the one I *just* wrote last year. (It takes about a year to come up with a signature keynote talk, it’s kind of like writing a book.)

After delivering it a bunch of times, I realized there were many things I wanted to change.

So I did, and it’s become 100 times better for it… and I am still adjusting parts of it.

One of the main changes I made in the last few months is adding many more interactive moments with the audience.

Because that is what I love the most: interacting, responding, helping unblock people in real time.

I’ve also taken some risks, adding an element where I draw on stage and then invite a few people to add to what I created.

This has been amazing to experience.

I’ve also been making more changes to my website.

And my art website.

And I'm working on a new experiment to create an interactive experience with my art (I have no idea how it will work yet.)

PHEW.

That is a lot more change. After already a lot more change.

And last week, I caught myself feeling frustrated for “not being there yet.”

Not being in this stable and settled place I thought I would arrive to after 2 years of lots of change and reinvention.

But then — and I was literally standing in the middle of my art studio — I stopped what I was doing and just stood there and smiled:

There is no settled and steady state.

It does not exist.

Life IS change. Life IS reinvention.

We all go through these cycles.

And of course, there are parts of the cycle that are more turbulent than others. There are parts when we are uncertain and parts where we are moving forward with fierce speed. Parts where we feel like we are making progress and parts where we feel completely and entirely stuck.

I have experienced all of these and more in the past few years, and in all my years before.

And standing there in the middle of my art studio, I smiled because I reminded myself to enjoy the flow of it all.

To FIND JOY IN THE BECOMING.

Because that’s what we are all doing here: We’re becoming who we are meant to be.

That is our purpose.

And the only way to actualize it is to change, to grow, to expand, to reinvent, to evolve.

There is no steady and settled state.

It’s an illusion our brain creates because it thinks that is how we will be safe.

But the safety we seek is found inside of ourselves.

The real anchor to hold us steady is not some steady and settled state of calmness. Of things being the same.

The real anchor is our alignment with what feels true.

And as long as we are doing what feels true, we are safe.

Amidst the change. Amidst the expansion. Amidst the reinvention.

So I am doubling down on the JOY OF BECOMING.

And I hope by sharing this with you, I am activating you to find your joy in your becoming.

With love,

Nataly
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P.S. Speaking of becoming and new things, I am launching something awesome next week that I have been waiting to share with you for a while. Stay tuned and don’t miss my email next week!

P.P.S. This is one of my favorite artworks I've created in the past year.

It's called Bold Becoming.

Funny thing: I first did not love it. I left it in my studio, facing the wall. But after a few weeks, I came back to it, changed a few things, and fell in love with it.

That's reinvention in a nutshell:

You can't see where you're going when you begin.

And there are many points on the journey that ask you to evolve, to shift, to do something differently.

But as long as you keep doing what feels true, you create the path you love.