Nothing Ever Stays The Same
As we move into the holiday season and prepare for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and the New Year, I want to take this opportunity to express my appreciation to you for reading my newsletters, taking time for reflection, and sending me comments throughout the year. I value your feedback and use it to direct future writings.
While most of my newsletters have concentrated on retirement-related issues, my private coaching practice has been much more diverse. Many of my coaching and therapy clients are several decades away from retiring and are preoccupied with other transitions such as divorce, job loss, illness, children leaving home, aging parents, etc. Regardless of our age or circumstances, we are constantly transitioning from one situation to another. Retirement is just one of the many transitions we go through in our lives.
Being from the first wave of baby boomers, I readily acknowledge that I have benefited from educating myself and my clients about retirement. I have been fascinated with the opportunities as well as the challenges that this life change involves. While I have not exhausted all the issues associated with retirement transitions, I have decided to broaden the scope of my newsletter by addressing other kinds of transitions. This also reinforces feedback from clients in my private practice and from companies requesting presentations and webinars to groups with individuals of all ages.
For that reason, I will be focusing more on transitions in general in the new year. There are many changes going on all through life requiring the same life skills and knowledge. The hope is that with each change we learn more about ourselves, our values, our support system, and our ability to move through adjustments with resilience, ease, and empathy for ourselves and others.
Prepare For Transitions In Life And Business
Change is inevitable for all of us. Many of us dread it, resist it, ignore it, and often do everything we can to avoid it. Since we spend so much energy avoiding change, we’re often unprepared for the unavoidable changes that will come our way whether we are looking forward to them or not. Since we are all creatures of habit, life flows more easily for us when we have “our systems” in place and can rely on those systems.
But what about you? What do you do when your systems, routines, rituals, plans, or life as you have known it changes? Then what? How will you understand and cope with this personal or professional transition? What skills will you use to survive? How well can you navigate this new terrain?
Some people do very well making transitions and others are challenged to the extent that they become almost paralyzed by them. Some transitions in life are also easier than others. There is a way to not only welcome change into your life but to embrace it.
When you have a solid grasp of how to handle change, you are better able to effectively manage both your present and future. Why not turn the next big change in your life inside out and see it as an opportunity for growth?
Learn How To Face Changes And Transitions In Life With A Whole New Mindset
A thought process defined by anticipation, openness, conscious awareness, opportunity, a positive attitude, and confidence when you encounter major changes like:
- Entering a new marriage
- Becoming an empty nester
- Starting a family
- Changing jobs
- Going back to school
- Retiring
- Being promoted/demoted
- Facing a life-threatening illness
- Going through a divorce
- Grieving the death of a loved one
- Moving to a new location
As I broadened my newsletter purpose to address all transitions, I hope you will gain additional insight into how to make healthier changes in your life. I’d like my future newsletters to benefit you and your family, friends, and colleagues. I hope it will be helpful enough that you will want to pass it on to others you know.
Make the very best of all your life and work transitions so you can grow personally and professionally.
Dee
Dee Cascio
Author, speaker, Licensed Psychotherapist, Certified Life Coach, Retirement Lifestyle/ReCareer Coach, and Life and Work Transitions Strategies Coach.
The Life and Work Transitions Community
You’ve joined a great group — people who plan to make successful transitions in life and work. May you be inspired to use your strengths and skills to grow in this season and may each transition be your best ever.
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