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SynopsisWhether you choose it or it is thrust upon you, change brings both opportunities and turmoil. Since Transitions was first published in 1980, this supportive guide has helped hundreds of thousands of readers cope with these issues by providing an elegantly simple yet profoundly insightful road map of the transition process. With the understanding-born of both personal and professional experience, William Bridges takes readers step by step through the three phases of any transition: The Endings: Every transition begins with one. Too often we confuse them with finality: A fresh way to think about endings is key to how we can begin anew. The Neutral Zone: A time of reorientation. How can we make the most of it? The New Beginning: A successful new beginning requires an understanding of the external signs and inner signals that point the way to the future. Bridges explains how each phase can be understood and embraced, leading to meaningful and productive movement into a hopeful future. Featuring new action steps, as well as added reflections throughout by Susan Bridges, Transitions will remain the essential guide for coping with the one constant in life: change. Book jacket., Celebrating 40 years of the best-selling guide for coping with life's changes, named one of the 50 all-time best books in self-help 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 change First published in 1980, Transitions was the first book to explore the underlying and universal pattern of transition. Named one of the fifty most important self-help books of all time, Transitions remains the essential guide for coping with the inevitable changes in life. Transitions takes readers step-by-step 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 time-out 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., Celebrating 40 years of the best-selling guide for coping with life's changes, named one of the 50 all-time best books in self-help 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 change First published in 1980, Transitions was the first book to explore the underlying and universal pattern of transition. Named one of the fifty most important self-help books of all time, Transitions remains the essential guide for coping with the inevitable changes in life. Transitions takes readers step-by-step 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 time-out 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., First published in 1980, TRANSITIONS was the first book to explore the underlying and universal pattern of transition. Named one of the fifty most important self-help books of all time, TRANSITIONS remains the essential guide for coping with the inevitable changes in life. TRANSITIONS takes readers step-by-step 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 road map 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 time-out 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.