Transitions (40Th Anniversary Edition): Making Sense Of Life'S Changes,New

Celebrating 40 Years Of The Bestselling Guide For Coping With Life'S Changes, Named One Of The 50 Alltime Best Books In Selfhelp And Personal Development With A New Discussion Guide For Readers, Written By Susan Bridges And Aimed At Today'S Current People And Organizations Facing Unprecedented Changefirst Published In 1980, Transitions Was The First Book To Explore The Underlying And Universal Pattern Of Transition. Named One Of The Fifty Most Important Selfhelp Books Of All Time, Transitions Remains The Essential Guide For Coping With The Inevitable Changes In Life.Transitions Takes Readers Stepbystep Through The Three Perilous Stages Of Any Transition, Explaining How Each Stage Can Be Understood And Embraced. The Book Offers An Elegant, Simple, Yet Profoundly Insightful Roadmap To Navigate Change And Move Into A Hopeful Future:Endings. Every Transition Begins With One. Too Often We Misunderstand Them, Confuse Them With Finality That'S It, All Over, Finished! Yet The Way We Think About Endings Is Key To How We Can Begin Anew. The Neutral Zone. The Second Hurdle: A Seemingly Unproductive Timeout When We Feel Disconnected From People And Things In The Past, And Emotionally Unconnected To The Present. Actually, The Neutral Zone Is A Time Of Reorientation. How Can We Make The Most Of It? The New Beginning. We Come To Beginnings Only At The End, When We Launch New Activities. To Make A Successful New Beginning Requires More Than Simply Persevering. It Requires An Understanding Of The External Signs And Inner Signals That Point The Way To The Future.