{"id":26598,"date":"2014-10-14T15:52:57","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T19:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mominthecity.com\/?p=26598"},"modified":"2021-07-09T19:17:56","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T23:17:56","slug":"reinventing-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mominthecity.com\/reinventing-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"Reinventing Yourself: Language Shifts"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>\"reinventing<\/a>\n

re\u00b7in\u00b7vent verb \\\u02ccr\u0113-\u0259n-\u02c8vent\\<\/strong>
\n: to make major changes or improvements to (something)
\n-Meriam-Webster<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This past weekend, I attended Melinda Emerson\u2019s Reinvention Weekend<\/a>\u00a0small business conference with my good friend Angela<\/a>. Although my various businesses have been consistently profitable for the last decade, I need to make some changes in order to meet my financial goals for this decade of life. To date, 90+% of my paid work has come from referrals. That has been a great blessing, but it is time to expand my potential client base\u2026especially for my small business website design business RK Responsive Design<\/a>. I\u2019m a big fan of constantly\u00a0growing\u00a0<\/strong>in every area of life, so I was excited to see what the weekend would bring about. I was not disappointed. I will share about Friday night today. Tomorrow, I will write about the information packed keynotes, panel discussions and mentoring boot camp that I attended on Saturday.<\/p>\n

After checking into the\u00a0Hilton Philadelphia Airport, Angela and I attended the networking reception on Friday night. This was definitely something that I had to prepare myself for mentally, because I strongly dislike networking events. People who know me have a hard time believing me when I mention that I have a strong introverted side of my personality. That is because I\u2019m fine with leading groups of any size, public speaking and such. It\u2019s true though. I\u2019m not an extrovert or an introvert\u2026I\u2019m an ambivert.<\/p>\n

am\u00b7bi\u00b7vert noun \\\u02c8am-bi-\u02ccv\u0259rt\\<\/strong>
\n: a person having characteristics of both extrovert and introvert
\n-Meriam-Webster<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Since talking to people to see if they need what I\u2019m offering is a necessary part of a service (my website design) business, I went to the reception.<\/p>\n

I realized two things:<\/h2>\n

1. I needed to reframe the \u201cnetworking\u201d language to suit my\u00a0personal preferences.<\/strong>\u00a0When Angela and I split up the first time, I mistakenly said, \u201cI\u2019ll see you later. I\u2019m going to go fellowship.\u201d (Angela and I go to the same church so the term \u201cfellowship\u201d simply means to go talk to people in our congregation. I\u2019m very active in my church and Reggie and the kids usually have to pull me away from talking to folks!) For some reason that word slip settled my nerves for the night. Networking really is<\/strong><\/span> just talking to people. If you can help one another out, then that is great. If not, that\u2019s fine too. \u00a0I like to talk to people. I like to hear their stories. As a bonus, the fact that everyone in the room shared an\u00a0interest in small business made connecting so easy.<\/p>\n

2. Everything is \u00a0better with a friend.<\/strong>\u00a0Although we purposefully split up to make sure that we spoke to other people, it was good to know that Angela was in the room.<\/p>\n

In any event, I really enjoyed Friday night. I\u00a0met\u00a0some really wonderful people and I was able to have several great conversations. I actually wish that some of them would move to NYC. They were my favorite types of people \u2013 smart and funny! Overall, I learned that it\u2019s easier to forget fear<\/a>\u00a0and do what is necessary with simple language shifts. If there is anything that you are wary about doing in regards to reinventing yourself (in a positive way), see if you can change the language surrounding it. \u00a0You never know\u2026you might end up enjoying that very thing. I did!<\/p>\n

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