What is it about transitions? 

Coming off a holiday weekend - Thank you to those who made the ultimate sacrifice and the families that were/are affected - we have nothing without that sacrifice. Again, thank you.  

I felt myself all kinds of all over the place this morning. 

This week there is no school or gymnastics, but we do a sitter. She comes at 9:00 am so it’s a major difference from getting out the door by 7:40 am. 

While it’s wonderful not having to feel that pressure, it threw me off a bit. Part of my brain craves structure and part of my brain wants to say F it and party. 

My goal was to walk out the door as soon as the sitter arrived, head to a coffee shop, hop on a 9 am coaching call, and then knock out some to-do’s before heading back home to mom it up.

As the sitter walked in I hadn’t had my breakfast or gotten ready and I walked into my office at 9:29 am.

As I walked to my office it got me thinking about transitions. I feel there’s so much emphasis on helping kids with transition, but maybe it’s just assumed that as adults we have this down…maybe you, but I’m for sure a work in progress. 

Transitions could look like: 

  • Cosleeping with your 18-month-old to get them in their own bed

  • Nursing to not 

  • Kids being in school to coordinating a summer schedule

  • A health journey by looking at your food intake and physical activity

  • Start to set boundaries with family and/or friends

  • Taking your business from being a solopreneur to hiring a team member

  • Going from the operator of your business to more of the owner role

  • Increasing your prices

Notice how I put both home life and business life. We can not discount our homelife when it comes to our business. We just can’t. It all flows back and forth and if we don’t look at both then {i feel} we’re not being realistic. 

Transitions can be challenging. Our brain craves the comfort of what it knows, familiarity. When we decide to work towards something else it pushes back…like your toddler when you give them the green plate instead of the blue one. 

So when we decide to make a transition it’s important to know what we truly want and the reason why we want it. We’ve all heard the importance of the why. Knowing why we want something will help on the days that shit hits the fan and those changes you wanted to make are worth getting through. 

Besides our why, how can we set ourselves up for a successful transition? This may look like: 

  • Allowing enough time to make the transition (if you haven’t run in 3 years, maybe not sign up for a marathon….)

  • Create small steps in your process as this will create momentum

  • Create realistic expectations

  • Remove any temptations that may suck you back into your old situation 

  • Please for the love of everything, ask for/hire help and accountability

  • Voicing your plan to allow others to know what’s going on (especially with kiddos)

  • Sharing your goals publicly (hello, social pressure!)

I hope you see that these are not complicated or expensive. It’s the simple things that do over and over again that get us to the new goals. Yup, the things that tend to be boring :) 

What transition do you feel you are going through and maybe need to recognize the need to pause and 1. Let yourself see that it may be more than you thought it was 2. Make a plan to help you successfully work through it. 

Amanda Quick