Leave to Launch
Leave to Launch
Transition happens.
Transition happens for multiple reasons; a geographical change, a personnel change, stage of life change, financial change, and many others. Most often, if we are honest, they are what I’ve learned to call, necessary endings. And they will happen.
Necessary endings require courage and grit. Necessary endings are not always easy. As a matter-of-fact, they most often are emotionally and mentally painful because relationships and community are effected. They are exhausting as we wrestle through the transition with a mixed bag of emotions and simply trying to hold our heads above water! But, here’s the good news. Necessary endings can also create new and exciting opportunities. Sometimes you just need to leave so you can launch!
Leave to launch means that the new and exciting usually can’t happen unless you really leave.
The challenge is that we want to hold onto what we’re leaving; holding on emotionally and mentally. If the “necessary ending” has come about more negatively, there might be an overwhelming sense of loss, regret, and/or feelings of rejection. Either way, loss is real and it’s important to give yourself time to grieve and take time to resolve any loose ends, especially when relationships are involved. It’s as equally important to give yourself time for reflection. Reflect on the “good, the bad, and the ugly” so you can learn and grow from what you’re leaving to make room for the new.
A Few Important Points to Remember:
Learn from the “leaving.” Move forward with the positive and “grow” from your experience.
Let Go of what you’re leaving so you can completely experience the “launch.”
• Let Go of the “coulda, shoulda’s” and forgive others, if you need to, and most importantly yourself.
• Invite your “intimates” to help you process the change. Be willing to ask the hard questions.
• Transition can take you from “good to great!”
Changing things grow and growing things change.
I have personally experienced more than my share of transitions and for a variety of reasons. It can be one of the most difficult, exhausting, and yet glorious times; however, to get the full blessing of the “launch” or “promotion,” determine to see all the possibilities that can be yours. Sure, you may still need to grieve the loss of the past, and it’s important to so so, but choose to celebrate what is before you. Press into the change. Capture the new. Surround yourself with “cheerleaders,” those beautiful people around you that see your amazing awesomeness who will support and encourage you through the transition and beyond.
I am presently preparing for yet another transition. I’m leaving The Village Potters Clay Center at the end of October after being a resident potter since its inception and opening in 2011. I have partially left before and been part-time, but this time it’s final. Is it difficult? You bet! But, as I look to leave, and of course grieve the necessary ending, I am also embracing the change and choosing to launch into the next.
For me, that is PearlMax Studio. You’ll hear more about that soon!
If you are in a season of transition, look to your future as a new beginning and a fresh launch!
IMAGINE IT.
YES YOU CAN.
JUST DO IT!