Find Time to Start Your Transition into Fall

The Time Finder with Paula Eder

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Find Time to Start Your Transition into Fall

Posted on August 24, 2010, under Transitions and Time.

Finding time for transitions is a powerful and empowering skill in your collection of time management tools. Wisely navigating transitions is, at heart, about making journeys. So, as any seasoned traveler well knows, it’s important to take with you what you’ll need … and leave behind what it’s no longer necessary to carry.

Here’s an excellent blog post from Soulful Coach Joanna Lindenbaum that explores “The Three Most Important Questions to Ask Yourself When Moving Through a Transition.“ as she notes: “In addition to all of the joys or challenges that come along with it, a time of transition is also an opportunity to create new beginnings and harness the energy of the change to really move you forward in significant ways.”

Whether your transition is a major life change or part of a seasonal rhythm, balancing what you carry with you and what you leave behind is key. Your choices have the power to make every transition an opening.

Indeed, even the smallest steps in this journey can always offer a passage to something deeper and more meaning-filled! One of the gifts of our lives as humans is that we are presented with opportunities to learn about transitions at almost every turn.

Think about it. Each morning we move from first waking into our day … and then we close out our days every night. We make four seasonal transitions each year.

These rhythms mark our lives and offer us frequent opportunities to take in the deeper rhythms of letting go and holding on. As we open to our feelings around these smaller transitions, we prepare for the larger, life-altering transitions that are guaranteed to come our way.

As August winds down, can you begin to feel fall in the air? What kinds of feelings does it evoke for you? Are there echoes of that back-to-school excitement (or dread) that you used to experience as a kid? How does that color your approach to this transition?

It’s not too early to start thinking about what you’ll be letting go of, as summer wanes, and what you’ll carry forward into autumn. What do you need to say good-bye to? And what do you want to greet?

I invite you to explore these questions, along with Joanna’s, and deepen your experience of your transitions. Drop me a line and let me know how it goes and what you learn … I’d love to hear!

PS Just a quick reminder that, though the call with Artist and Creativity Coach Ellene Breedlove Davis is over, you can still access the FREE MP3 by clicking the link for: Finding Time to Be Creative: Portrait of the Artist. When you use your creativity to enhance your life, you will develop even more incentive for developing your best ideas and making them a reality.

What if you could find another hour every day? You can! You are invited to sign up for your FREE Finding Time Success Kit. It puts 3 key tools for your time success right into your hands! Grab it and see how you can recharge your energy, reduce overwhelm and frustration, and come to learn that 24 hours really ARE enough!

Let’s explore time together …

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