Life Quote by William Bridges

“The transition's of life's second half offer a special kind of opportunity to break with the social conditioning and do something really new and different.” quote by William Bridges — Download Open image

““The transition's of life's second half offer a special kind of opportunity to break with the social conditioning and do something really new and different.””

William Bridges

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Change is an event but a transition is the process that you go through in response to the change.

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Change is situational. Transition, on the other hand, is psychological. It is not those events, but rather the inner reorientation or self-redefinition that you have to go through in order to incorporate any of those changes into your life. Without a transition, a change is just a rearrangement of the furniture. Unless transition happens, the change won't work, because it…

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We resist transition not because we can't accept the change, but because we can't accept letting go of that piece of ourselves that we…

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“The real difficulties, in short, come from the transition process. It”

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Transition is the natural process of disorientation and reorientation that marks the turning points in the path of growth...transitions are key times in the…

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It isn't the changes that do you in, it's the transitions.

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Before people can begin something new, they have to end what used to be and unlearn the old way.

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“Author says change emphasizes what is happening TO us while transition emphasizes opportunity for growth within.”

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It is when we are in transition that we are most completely alive.

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Nothing so undermines organizational change as the failure to think through the losses people face.

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Faith is the soul's adventure.

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Change comes more from managing the journey than from announcing the destination

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