This issue: I explore the experience of Going Sane and share some ‘learnings’. CREATIVE CAREERS Please forward this newsletter to creative, Want to subscribe? Send a blank email to ccu-ezine [at] aweber.com ============================== Thanks for your kind words about my last newsletter I ‘borrowed’ the title of this newsletter from a I started reading her book about a week ago and This past Thursday I started reading WANT TO LEARN TO BLOG? IT’S If you’ve always wanted to learn how to Blog, then now’s The maestro, Andy Wibbels - author of the Amazon Tune in, today, January 31st for a Preview Call Click here for details: Easy ============================== The time: March 2006. I was working flat out doing a consulting contract that I had been at it for 15 months and one day I said to My Fibromyalgia came on gang busters and I was in Fast forward 8 months. I’ve managed to survive 4 months of I believe that, in large measure, it was my commitment to It’s now November and my coaching business has been growing I hear THE voice, "It’s I Ha. Ha. I really believed that if I was conscious about my I should know Lesson #1: Transitions My first mistake was thinking that what I was about I think of the difference this way. Change is about the Somehow I hadn’t seen that I was really planning to make a The Journey of Transition has 3 phases: 1) Letting Go of Bridges so called Neutral Zone is anything but Neutral. Lesson #2: Control is a Myth Okay, I admit it! I really thought I’d be In Control. As a Daily I’m getting reminders that I can’t. And, that’s the beauty and joy of Transitions. We Envision the Outcome. We Set the Intention. We make the All I know is that I am somewhere in that bloody Neutral Definitely NOT in Control! Lesson #3: It’s 2 a.m. I’m awake. And, discouraged as hell! Everything is dark. My life feels like sh-t. It feels like I just want to chuck it all! Go back to what I was doing. It’s Crazy Time. And, it’s time to remember my Commitment. I DID commit to this change. It WAS me. Not somebody else And, I MUST remember that my Commitment was to see this That’s right. When you’re in the middle of that Transition, Let’s ============================== Do Do Do Would Then Please Genre Until Lyle Lachmuth MS Turning Point E: LyleTLachmuth [at] ABOUT THIS NEWSLETTER To subscribe to this You are subscribed as Lyle T. Lachmuth | The Unsticking Coach To change your PRIVACY POLICY: I will not rent, trade, or CAVEAT: CREATIVE CAREERS Copyright 2006 Lyle T. Lachmuth, All Rights
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GOING SANE!
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GOING SANE
paid well but that required me to perform tasks that didn’t suit my personality
preference. It’s not that I can’t do detailed work or sequence, track, and
manage many small tasks. I can. It’s just that doing a lot of that kind of work
and doing it constantly is very demanding and stressful for me.
myself, "I’ve got to quit this. I can’t
do this anymore. It’s wearing me out." But,
I didn’t quit. I kept going. Two months later my body/mind shut down!
excruciating pain for days on end - sometimes 6 days a week. I had no choice
but to quit! I simply could not do the work.
hellish pain and finally get better by focusing on growing my coaching business
and working with an Energy Coach. I reasoned that if I was going to experience pain
anyway, I might as well do what I loved so I got some joy in life.
DO MY WORK that resulted in the significant reduction in my pain levels and in
my being able to get back to working.
steadily. I have several new challenging, exciting, and fun clients. I’m
working on a new group coaching program. And, I’m still doing a bit of contract
work in Change Management. Work that is far less stressful than before and that
up until now has been very enjoyable and rewarding for me. Then one day it
happens!
time to quit. I don’t enjoy this work any more. My heart’s not in it!"
resolve that THIS time it will be different. I’m going to make a conscious
decision to quit, a conscious plan to leave. I’m not going to be forced to quit
by pain. I’m going to be in control.
decision, that if I Consciously planned and made the transition it would be pain free. Well, it has been and it hasn’t.
better. After all, I’ve specialized in coaching and consulting on TRANSITIONS.
I knew the theory. I’d experienced significant life, work, and career
transitions. Yet, blissfully I expected this change to be different.
Are Different
to do was simply make a change. Not so. I was about to embark on a Transition. "What’s the difference", you ask.
alteration you want to make, e.g. I wanted to change the content and focus of
My Work. Sounds simple, doesn’t it? Transition is about the journey of change.
major transformation in my life. I thought it was a small change but it was a
BIG change. And, whenever you plan a major transformation, you’re ‘planning’ on
going through a Transition - like it or not.
the Old, 2) Moving through, what noted Transition expert William Bridges calls, the Neutral Zone,
and 3) Embracing Your New Beginning.
This is the time when moods become exaggerated; when you feel like you’re going
crazy but in reality are Going Sane as Julia Cameron calls it; and when you discover
. . .
Recovering Control Freak I’ve worked hard to really, really KNOW that Control
is a Myth. I’ve had many, many lessons from the Universe that we really can’t
Control much of anything. Yet somehow I fooled myself into believing that
somehow I could direct, manage, control this Change Process.
Commitment, and, then the Universe takes Control - setting the path and putting
her plan in place.
Zone - what I prefer to call The Desert or Crazy Time! One day feeling giddy
and on top of the world. The next: depressed, discouraged, and despondent.
Commitment Is More Important Than Ever
nothing is going according to plan. This change wasn’t supposed to be so
freaking painful!
Or, maybe become a shelf stocker at Safeway! At least that way I’d feel useful.
who embarked on this path. I can’t blame anyone else for being here.
through. Even if the path and experience isn’t what I PLANNED.
it’s time to revisit your Commitment. Time to recommit. Time to stick with it. Even
though it feels like getting the hell out makes a lot more sense.
sum up: When you commit to a Big Change you can expect to experience the roller
coaster ride called Transition. The good news: the Roller Coaster feels out of
control but its not. And, the ride does come to an end!
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February 1st, 2007 at 5:07 am
Change vs transition…. i really like that one
Must keep it in mind 
thanks for sharing!
February 2nd, 2007 at 6:33 pm
I am drawn to your lesson #2: Control is a Myth. That depends upon what you are trying to control. I agree that trying to control the path is a myth. Won’t happen. Life will throw too many obstacles in our path. But I believe there is much more that people can control, if they want to. You said it also. People want to and can control their vision. They can set and control their desired goals. They can control their commitment. So there are things we can control and will want to control, or we all become just feathers blowing in the wind.