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TransitionsThis newsletter represents a change. Over a few months now we have transitioned the newsletter over from Ingunn and myself to just me. Everything is well with her; she is currently working on a very practical entrepreneurial project introducing into the American market some state-of-the-art chairs for elderly and disabled. She is working with the Irish manufacturer on a no cure no pay basis. It is very exciting, but her focus will be there for a while. Invaluable experience. As a consequence of this we will all relocate to North Carolina, so Florida here we go! Some of you have had conversations going on with Ingunn, just continue with that. When this project is up and running she will be back, and wow she has plans she will let you in on. Lifting the lid of our marketing strategy a little bit; this also means that it will be peteraursnes.com that sends you these newsletter. Peteraursnes.com which I recommend you visit, is my blog. It is a blog on transitions. So why am I concerned with transitions rather than change?There is nothing wrong with change and it happens all the time, but it does not necessarily lead to anything new. Something changes and that’s it. I am concerned with development, and to develop there need to be some movement. That is the nature of development; you transition from one stage to another. But in that process there will be some unrest, and that is what scares us. People do not so much resist change as they resist transition. And I think that is because of the process involved, and in particular this limbo period, this in-between period wandering through seemingly “nowhere land” that we have to go through to enter the new beginning. Most of us need the safety of knowing, knowing what is going on, where we are heading, why we are heading there, or for many of us; unconsciously knowing we are heading nowhere. And while we still are going through transitions, which we do to a greater or lesser degree all the time whether we resist it or not, these things do not seem apparent to us, that we have to go through the phase of uncertainty to get through to a new beginning. We have experienced it though, so we know and consequently resist. Strange, but human nature. However, as much as this kind of resisting is human nature, so are transitions. They happen, and we cannot always avoid them. That’s when we are thrown in, and we are tumbled around with no sense of direction or meaning at all. So my point is, however much we resist, we should go into it with at least a clear picture of what this is and a goal of getting through in the best possible way. A typical transition that we are thrown into is organizational transitions (usually named organizational change), and we have to keep afloat the best we can, or rather hopefully, we embrace the process and stay on top of it. Transitions that we often invite are relationship breakups (provided you are the one taking the action). Not that most appreciate the phase to come, but the urge to end what have been way overshadows the uncertainty to come before a new beginning starts. The other part may of course perceive this quite differently. I think it could be a good exercise to think through you life and find periods where you have gone through transitions, how you handled it, did you learn anything from it, and can you use any of that for future transitions that will come, have no doubt about that. If you want to read more about transitions, go to my blog http://peteraursnes.com. You can also subscribe to my transition podcast on iTunes, it is called "The Peter Aursnes transition podcast”. Copy and paste into the search box or click here. It is a FREE subscription; my pleasure. Thank you,
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