Whenever we embark on a new beginning, something must first come to an end. Even if it is not an absolute end, something changes in order to lead us to the beginning of a new road. William Bridges describes this as his fourth rule in Transitions (see links for rule one, rule two and rule three).
First there is an ending, then a beginning, and an important empty or fallow time in between.
Transitions p. 17
Bridges argues that the true transition occurs in the middle process, the in between time. It is during this time that a person can truly evaluate and investigate the road ahead. The road is an unknown but even for the unknown there is an intuitive sense of what we need to go forward.
An ending doesn’t have to mean we leave everything behind. It means we have exited one road to enter a new road and the goal is to find the clearest map possible to forge ahead, while also recognizing that we will discover things along the new road we weren’t prepared for.
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