Can you become...a new version of YOU?

There's nothing like a job interview, or a first date, to completely re-create yourself. The person sitting across from you knows, and generally believes, only what they see and what you tell them. At a job interview, your greatest weakness can be the fact that you are a "perfectionist" when in reality its the fact that you spend too much time on the E! Online website and don't know how to really use Excel despite what your resume says. On a first date you can play bimbo or breezy when you are really magna cum laude and still a wreck over your ex.

It's nice that life gives us the ability to fake our best selves, because sometimes you actually can become that. The tidy briefcase you buy to bring to the interview instead of your cluttered purse filled with wrapperless gum can actually become your favorite accessory. Saying "the past is the past" enough times might bring you closer to believing it.

As my favortite mantra explains, "It's never too late, in fiction or life, to revise."