My focus word for the year has been REINVENT. And what am I reinventing? I’m yet again reinventing my professional life. I’m reinventing the blog. I’m reinventing me. Again.

Receiving gifts in the form of love, money, success, or abundance makes me feel vulnerable, uncomfortable, and seems sends a secret signal to every single personal gremlin I’ve ever struggled with. When receiving a gift, the gremlins sidle up next to me, demanding to know who the hell I think I am to have X thing. As I’ve written about here, success (and other goodness like joy and love and money) can feel so unfamiliar that the minute we (I) have it, we’re (I’m) throwing it out the window like a hot potato.

Here’s what they don’t tell you: when you’ve painted yourself into a corner, paint eventually dries. Once that wet paint dries, you can walk on it and put your considerable problems-solving skills to work figuring out some new directions.