 The fifth strategy, and I think it is a strategy, all of these I think I want you to think strategically about Rather than be casual or see them as just points and thinking of them as a strategic intentional thing you apply to your life And the fifth thing I want to say to you is do not be loyal to an old version of yourself Don't be loyal to an old version of yourself You are not the same person. We are not the same person throughout our lives and nor should we be Not enough is said about that so that people spend a lot of time feeling guilty and confused At different seasons of their life and feel bad about Not being as interested in what they used to be interested in not caring as much about what they used to care about And not wanting to spend time with people that they used to spend time with not wanting to do the things they used to do Because you are changing and if you're a growing flourishing person you will not stand still as a person you will constantly have Reinventions of you Because you are committed to becoming the best version of you You can possibly be which means you have to shed the skin as it were of the old versions of you that were good in their time But they are not good for who you are becoming next And I think what happens is that we do life with people Who love the version of you that they've always known and so it gets difficult to reinvent because the people that have known you the longest Are the ones that most don't want you to change In case the next version of you doesn't give them the same space in your life And you know as well as I do people that know the version of you the version of you that you've been for a long time Are the ones that I said what what did you say what you're doing? Why are you reading that book? Oh? Haven't heard you say that before Haven't known you listen to that kind of podcast before or and this this self-improvement that you're involved in becomes a threat to them Because it's changing how you think and how you speak and it's shifting your values around is shifting Your behavior and your habits and your and and your time allocation And it's a threat to people who feel that they may be pushed out of the space They have in this current version of you so they don't want you to Become another version of you, but you know you have to Because each version of you has its own sell-by date So to stay loyal to an old version of you when you are seeking new opportunities New relationships new ideas new expressions of life new things you want to do They will require you to upgrade you to be able to pull those things off and to be able to Do those things well It's kind of like being upgraded to first-class and keeping an economy mindset Been upgraded to An opportunity and this is why people often get an opportunity they want they get the job They want the promotion they want but then fail in that opportunity in that space because they brought the old version of them to the new opportunity and You know as well as I do that getting a new opportunity isn't just about a skill set It's about adapting to the new space It's about adapting to the new culture and literally the new opportunity could be a completely new culture a new country a new city So the challenge doesn't become so much can I do the job? But can I be the person that is a good fit for this job and role and the people that can do that the best Are the ones that are committed to constantly in re-inventions of themselves So it becomes vital to not stay somewhere mentally That you left physically a long time ago And when we do that we park up mentally and emotionally in a version of us that was 10 years ago 20 years ago even a year ago and we live in the present with this mixture of Who we were and who we're trying to be and it becomes a mess so Do not stay loyal for the sake of anybody To an old version of yourself. I think the most flourishing Progressive growing people have figured out whatever they call that. I don't know my version of that for me is That I have committed to not stay loyal Ever to an old version of myself and some of my reinventions have been rapid So my my not staying loyal has been a constant choice. I've made Several times throughout the period of a year. I have known that I've reinvented I'm changed and it's sometimes small Uncouplings is sometimes small Resignations and divorces that you do from the old you not massive life shifts sometimes It's sometimes small almost unnoticeable to others, but very noticeable to you how you are constantly Moving on and not staying loyal to old version no matter how good that version was It's not who you are anymore. Don't stay loyal to an old version of yourself