Well, of course, the fact that I am celebrating both of them today!
I am sipping the most delicious cup of tea you can imagine. It's called Douglas Fir Tip Tea and it's put out by Juniper Ridge. No, I don't get paid for this. I love celebrating everything good I find in the world. That's what this blog is about, silly! Anyway, it's like drinking a cup of winter holiday or brushing your teeth with a pine tree. Not that I'm in any hurry for winter but the flavor is so clean and refreshing and evokes so much good stuff. I just found it at the coop and noticed it because it has a plain brown - but very good looking, I might add - box and the flavors were so interesting (white sage and wild mint is another). Try it, you might also add it to your list of THINGS THAT MAKE ME HAPPY.
And why am I celebrating Transition? Well, because I'm in it and celebrating is always more fun than resisting. And here's an interesting tidbit.
CHANGE IS NOT THE SAME THING AS TRANSITION
Change is situational and transition is psychological. Change is an event and transition is a process. Being aware of this difference is the key to success in any change.
I have some clients who are instituting some fairly simple but important changes in their business. They have been very clear about what the changes are and how to implement them. And stumped as to why the staff repeatedly has not carried them out.
Unless a person makes the transition, the change will not be successful. It is a 3 stage process.
BEGINNING WITH AN ENDING
Huh? Yes, transitions begin with an ending. You are stepping away from or letting go of a way of being or doing and moving into a new way. Have you ever noticed, no matter how much you wish or hard you try, that you can't set up the new way before letting go of the old? You REALLY want to quit your job and do something else but you won't quit until you have something lined up and you can't seem to find it? This is a very scary example and I'm not advocating quitting your job necessarily, just making a point. But it happens over and over again that the minute people let go of something and step into the void, some amazing opportunity shows up. Which brings me to the second stage.
THE VOID
Ugh! How we hate not knowing. Not all of us, but most of us want to know what's going to happen, what it's going to look like, how it's going to work, and what time it's going to start before we even begin to start dreaming.
Well, this just happens to be where I am right now and I've been around the block enough to know that all that controlling just does not work. If you control what you will let into your box - which is only what you know - then you'll never be open to anything else. And if what you know doesn't happen to be what you want, well, you're just...out of luck aren't you. So, I'm done playing that game. I am at least going to experiment with this void thing. Think about it. The darkness, the mystery, the void, often referred to as the PREGNANT void, the place of creation, from which all comes, the womb of creation. WE came from the womb. That was dark. It's dark below the earth from which all life springs. Get it?
Let's recap. You''re transitioning. You have to be clear about what's ending and step away from it. You step into the void and depending on the quality of the change, you'll be in there for a short or long time.
Okay, I'm going to do something very out of character. I wrote this in August, thought I had lost it and when I went to post something quickly tonight I found it. If I go back and try to remember the 3rd step to transitioning I know I will leave the computer before finishing. And then we will find ourselves in 2010 with my most recent post being from 2008. So instead, I'm going to leave this mid-thought (there's still enough content, don't you think?) and post what I was going to celebrate tonight.
TONIGHT
FIRST, I'm going to celebrate my willingness to be spontaneous and non-linear about this post!
Then, I am going to celebrate RESCUE INK . Check this guy out! His name is Big Ant and he is one of a group of similarly impressive looking dudes who actually go rescue animals who are being abused or neglected.
I could marry any one of them in a second, I'm quite sure.
Seems they've been around long enough to have a book out http://www.rescueink.org/media.html
and visited Ellen DeGeneres on her show http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3f-y7aBio8
I didn't watch the whole thing because my heart can't take the stories, even with a happy ending. But I am just so thrilled to find these guys and share them with you! I celebrate the beautiful dance between tough and tender - just what the world needs.
Here's G.
They're all fabulous so go visit them at http://www.rescueink.org/about.html
In Celebration,
Lisa
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