We can all recover from past mistakes. In Jane Fonda’s 2011 TED Talk, "Life’s Third Act," she stressed the need to review and study your first two acts of your life; to circle back to your young life and relive it on your terms today; to free yourself from your past and become the person you wished you would have been back then.

I was a lost soul in high school. A second-tier wannabe, always dreaming about being in the first-tier of my class of 350 kids. I dreamed about dating the best looking, smartest, coolest and most popular girls, but never did. The chasm between them and me was impossible to close at the time.

But things changed at my fifty-year high school reunion. I recall at our Saturday night cocktail hour walking straight up to an elegant 67-year-old lady in a long black dress who was a total stunner back in school, re-introducing myself and having a great conversation that would never have happened 50 years before. 

Then at our Sunday brunch, she actually approached me first. What a turnaround, all because I was able to relive my old life that night based on who I became today. It was an amazing lift of self-confidence that carried me through that reunion weekend and has stayed within me since.

Thank you Jane Fonda! And most importantly, Thank You God for unveiling a part of me that the devil had been keeping under wraps for years. 

Thomas Kempis in His Utmost for His Highest says, "The Devil Never sleeps. You must always be prepared to do battle, for you are surrounded by enemies that never rest.”

So why not rediscover and resurrect your childhood dreams?  Shed your old skin . . . Reinvent yourself . . . Don’t die with your music still inside of you.