Transitions Can be Good
You know what I’ve realized?
It’s taken me a year and a half to transition.
- I transitioned from full-time entrepreneurship back into corporate America (I talk about that in this podcast interview with Ellie Talks Money and in Brittney Oliver’s article with Glamour Magazine).
- I transitioned from a marketing practitioner into a scholar as a PhD Student (32 months left 😂)
- I transitioned from sick to healed (won’t He do it?!)
And those are just the big ones!
As much as I am thankful, please know that every transition I go through is hard. Every single one. I always share that you can change your life at any moment, but I don’t always talk about how much we all underestimate the time and effort it takes to adjust to change.
Remember when I shared how nervous I was to start my PhD program? Well, my physical body is just now adjusting. The natural anxiousness that stemmed from the newness of the program is starting to leave my body months after my first day.
Hey – I’m human, too!
I am slowly learning to welcome transitions because they are required for growth. It’s not easy. However, my desire to continually evolve and develop supersedes my desire to stay comfortable or sick or broke or sad or _________ (fill in the blank).
Change isn’t always bad, but oftentimes it is hard. Just like increasing resistance and weights help to sculpt our bodies in our workouts (hello, Peloton strength classes!) transitioning helps us to shape our lives into better versions of ourselves. It takes a lot of fortitude to be an active and willing participant in your own growth. This is a process, and we all need to start our next chapter somewhere.
You really can pivot, change, and improve the quality of your life, relationships, and business. Don’t just go through it, grow through it.
