You Can't Escape Life's Transitions

You can’t escape them, life’s transitions. They will either sneak up on you and gradually appear in your life while you are not paying attention or they can smack you in the forehead when you least expect or want them. There are dozens of them, here are just some of the common ones, the transition;

- from one career to a new one
- from one position to a new one
- from your teens to your twenties, twenties to thirties
-from college or advanced training or education to working
- from working to retirement
- from one relationship to the next one
- from success to failure or the reverse
- from one way of life to a new one
- from health to sickness and vice versa
- from the old anything to a new something
- from today to tomorrow

The list goes on and on…

No one escapes ANY of the routine transitions of life:

- from one age to the next
- from one year to the next
- from one belief/attitude to a new one

Life is about life’s transition. A successful, happy and peaceful life is all about making successful transitions. According to William bridges in is great book, Transitions, there are three stages in all transitions:

- Declaring endings.
- Neutral zone. Spending time in the limbo state of growth – learning, understanding and resulting change that comes with contemplation and introspection.
- New beginnings.

Here are a few things to consider if you are currently passing through one of life’s common or uncommon transitions in any area of your life.

1. Don’t start a new beginning without spending adequate time in the neutral zone.

2. Don’t start a new beginning before you have had closure on the previous life circumstance.

3. Don’t rush through the neutral zone.

4. Let go of any old emotional baggage before you begin anything new.

5. Accept the simple truth that life IS about transitions. You can’t stop them; you can only learn about yourself while in them.

6. Transitions are not about what other people think you should be doing or learning.

7. Know that one day your current new beginning will also have an ending.

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Tim Connor, CSP is an internationally renowned sales, management and leadership speaker, trainer and best selling author. Since 1981 he has given over 3500 presentations in 21 countries on a variety of sales, management, leadership and relationship topics. He is the best selling author of over 60 books including; Soft Sell, That’s Life, Peace Of Mind, 91 Challenges Managers Face Today and Your First Year In Sales. He can be reached at tim@timconnor.com, 704-895-1230 or visit his website at www.timconnor.com

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