transitions
Transitions
we all have them, we all go through them
Your clients
may be moving to a new area and there is
anxiety about what the future holds.
The
children are nervous about a new school, new friends, will they look
like
dorks, who will sit with them in lunch room ?
Perhaps
the reason for moving is a new job in
a new location. There is anxiety for the employer as well.
Perhaps they
have lost their job, lost their home.
Perhaps they are retireing from a job
they have had for years and moving to a new area.
Change
brings both opportunities and turmoil
How do we make
sense of transitions?
How do we help
our clients through transitions?
I learned
through a real estate coach I had the first three
years in the business, an important concept that has stuck with me. It
is
simple really.
When
you are building a new bridge, you
don’t
tear down the old one until the new one is finished.
Letting go of
the past, with what is familiar is the hard part.
Embracing the new is exciting. The middle area of a transition is where
life is
riddled with the most uncertainty.
Today, I am
sitting at my desk, with the lilac bush outside
my window. I can smell the fragrance as the wind blows it into my
office.
My oldest
son, Matthew
graduated from
Navy boot camp on Friday. Navy
Graduation is an unbelievable ceremony. Full of tradition and pomp. A transition from a recruit
to a soldier.
Allyssa
graduated from Saline
High School on Sunday. High School graduation
is full of traditions. Milestones in a young person’s life
that they will
always remember. A transition from high school to college.
Today
one of my closest friends, Lois Hale passed away from
life on
earth to life in eternity.
Funerals… a time to say
good-bye.A time to remember and celebrate
their life and how much joy that person brought to you. A time of
transitions and farewells
for those who will miss them.
Rites of passage affect us
throughout our life.
Understanding
and embracing transitions, is a life long
journey. Being emphatic to our clients during their time
of transition
is a
calling we must embrace.
It is not all about the house, it is
about the emotional decisions that are involved in a new move.
Somewhere in that move is a transition of letting go of one thing and
embracing the new thing.
It is a time of transition....a
passing of old
things into new things...a passing of death into life...an ending and a
beginning.
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