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“It isn’t the changes that do you in, it’s the transitions.
Change is situational, transition is the psychological process people go through to come to terms with the new situation. Change is external, transition is internal.”
– William Bridges
The world is changing fast. We’re living through a time of volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity; a time of massive transformation. And none of us is a stranger to transformation. We’ve all been through a variety of transitions in our lives: from childhood to adulthood; from student to wage-earner; from being single to being in a relationship. And while some of those transitions have had ‘external triggers’ (E.g. becoming old enough to go to school), some of them have an ‘internal trigger’. In this article, we’re going to be exploring those deeper currents of transition and transformation. Here’s an excerpt from Chapter 17 of my Sunday Times Bestseller, RESULTS: Think Less, Achieve More (©2016 Jamie Smart, published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd) Read More →
