Life transitions is the topic of a good personal development post on Edward Collozzi’s blog (despite the readability challenge for me of bold white text on blue background).
I commented that I liked how he framed a transition as beginning with something ending. The Leadership Gift teaches me that the faster I accept something ending, beginning, or changing, the faster I face it and learn, grow, and adapt. And I must do this to create new freedoms, new choices, and new power.
I’ve always been fascinated to hear people say how positive it is for new community to form and how negative it is for old community to end. But how can the first happen without the second?
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So many things end at once in our fifties, so juggling all the transitions can feel like keeping flaming torches in the air. Good leadership knows how to pass the torch. So while we train the next generation to take over our leadership, we must also be looking for positive role models to guide us to happy transitions. We expect our children to leave home, our parents to pass away, and to retire from a job. It does not feel like freedom or opportunity to recreate ourselves, it feels like a sudden isolation and a long journey to find a new community. How much harder to transition after the death of a spouse or child, a divorce, or the loss of your body functions. Fast transitions require faith, friends, and professional help.
Well said Kim. Thanks for adding your perspective to this important topic. I love your success factors of “faith, friends, and professional help”.
I think part of the skill of managing transitions is to expect them and to assume that I, rather than my circumstances, are in charge of the transitions. I also think that the rut we get into is the temporary stasis where everything is working just the way we want it and we think to ourselves “this is it, I don’t ever want it to change.” That’s a set up.