Worthy Wednesdays

Issue #11 - Navigating Transitions

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⚡ 5-Minute Action: Transition Timeline
Draw a line on paper. Mark where you are in your current transition (beginning, middle, or edge of something new). Note three feelings you have about this point. Circle the one that surprises you most - it often holds the deepest wisdom.

🔄 Worth Reframe: Chrysalis Courage
Like a caterpillar in chrysalis, transitions feel messy in the middle. The discomfort isn't a sign something's wrong - it's evidence you're transforming.

📚 Curated Resource: "Transitions - Making Sense of Life’s Changes" by William Bridges. A groundbreaking guide to understanding the emotional stages of life's transitions and how to navigate them with grace. A favourite of mine from the days of my last company The Change School where we worked with 1000s of individuals and organisations navigating life and work transitions.

🎯 Micro-Challenge: The Change Champion
Each time you feel wobbly in your transition this week, place your hand on your heart and say: "This too is progress." Notice how acknowledging the discomfort actually helps you move through it.
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⚡ 5-Minute Action: Financial Transition Map
List your current money systems that no longer fit who you're becoming. Next to each, write one small way it could evolve to support your next chapter.

🔄 Worth Reframe: The Space Between
Financial transitions - like all changes - have a neutral zone. Your old money story is releasing, your new one emerging. Trust the in-between.

📚 Curated Resource: Managing Financials During Transitions
​Listen to this episode on Wealth Beyond Riches, interviewing Susan Bradley. Uncover practical strategies for managing substantial financial changes.

🎯 Micro-Challenge: Bridge Building
​Identify one financial habit that bridges who you've been with who you're becoming. Practice it daily this week, celebrating both where you're from and where you're headed.​​​​​​​​

⚡ 5-Minute Action: Energy Mapping
Draw two columns: "What's Falling Away" and "What's Emerging." List three things in each column - habits, relationships, beliefs. Notice without judgment how your energy is naturally shifting.

🔄 Worth Reframe: Sacred Uncertainty
The space between old and new isn't empty - it's fertile. Your wellbeing during transition isn't about maintaining status quo, but honouring the shift.

📚 Curated Resource: "Navigating Life Transitions"
How to find your way through difficult changes in our lives by Pretty Spiritual Podcast.

🎯 Micro-Challenge: Transition Ritual
​Create a small morning ritual that honours both endings and beginnings. Maybe light two candles - one for what's falling away, one for what's emerging. Do this each day this week for 30 days.

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​WISDOM WHISPERER​
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Why this whisper? Feiler, who spent years studying life transitions for his book "Life Is in the Transitions," reminds us that change isn't something to get through - it's the very essence of being alive. When we resist transitions, we resist life itself. But when we learn to dance with change, we discover our innate capacity for renewal.

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​Remember: You've navigated a thousand transitions before this one. Each breath is a small letting go and beginning again. You're more practiced at this than you know.