Transition Person II: How To Be One

No matter what has happened, is happening, or will happen, there is a space between those things and our responses to them. ­– Stephen R. Covey

It is important to be a transition person. You get to stop any unwanted trait in your family, work, church, or community. In addition you have the privilege of starting new paths and traits for the next generation. In a way you become a definer of the future.

It is important but not easy to be a transition person. It takes the intentional development and use of several virtues to break a chain. A chain breaker must be disciplined, courageous, focused, creative, and consistent – among other things. Without these virtues developed in a transition person effective transition wouldn’t be possible.

Effective transition is only actualized when the people coming after you actually take to your reformed path. People may like your path, or speak positively about your ideas but they must get to the point where they actually take the steps you require of them before you can consider your transition as effective.

So how do you bring about effective transition? You must be:

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1.     Open to instructions. The person that will effectively transit must be open to new instructions he isn’t used to.

2.     Obedient to instructions. You don’t know it all. No one person does. When you receive the right instructions obey.

3.     Willing to change. You cannot be an effective transition person if you remain uncomfortable with change. Be willing to leave your comfort zone.

4.     A sower. You must sow to reap. It is a principle for growth.

5.     Patient. You should remain patient with the process. Don’t expect immediate results. Your target is the future not the present. Remember.

6.     Unafraid of being tagged a nonconformist. All transition persons are called names. Nelson Mandela was called, “The Black Pimpernel,” Jesus was called the Agent of Beelzabub. You won’t be different.

7.     Willing to pass down the baton. You will be an incomplete transition person if you don’t pass down the new baton to the next generation thereby starting a brand new change. It is said, “There is no success without a successor.”