One week into the new year makes me contemplate many upcoming and significant changes that are my near future. August will bring my last official military move. I know that this is several months away, but when frequent moves are a part of your life, this is when you begin in earnest to plan for the event. Organizing, going through stuff, trying to rid your life of things that don’t matter to you, or you no longer use. It’s definitely part of the change process.
For me, however, it’s going to be quite different. This change will mark the first time in 27 years when a move won’t be followed by mandatory in processing, meeting all the new people that I work for and who work for me, understanding and making plans to accomplish and get the mission done. Instead, we will settle into the home we bought several years ago, and I’ll begin to figure out how to run my own business. This change will be epic.
There will be smaller things to work out. What will I wear every day? What time will I get out of bed and how long will I work every day? How will I make professional connections? How will I make personal connections? The questions are almost endless and could quickly be too overwhelming to even think about.
I do plan to take my own advice though. I hope to manage the stress and anxiety of the change by taking one small thing and working through that and then moving to the next. This might seem impossible with so many pending changes, but the alternative seems too unmanageable. My hope is that solving each issue will add to the positive energy that success can generate and that can fuel additional wins in the many elements of change.
