Do you feel that same as me about the difference between transition and transformation?
A transition is being the person that you are and changing something you do in your life to make it better. Where a transformation sounds a lot like changing who you are and become something new. The latter sounds like a lot of hard work and may result in something you don’t like.
I bring this up because I am currently in a transition phase in my life. I went from being a personal trainer and coach full-time into a part-time coach for adults and a part-time coach for children (teaching children ages 2-6 yo sports).
Soon I will be a part-time PDHPE (personal development, health, and physical education) teacher at a Montessori school and a part-time coach for adults in my spare time.
This is a big transition as I will be in charge of the curriculum making sure the children learn all the basic skills they need to be active and healthy. I feel this is very important with the obesity epidemic we are currently in. I have the ability to set these children on a path of taking care of themselves in the future better than some people currently take care of themselves.
I also value my ability to help adults who are looking to improve their health and wellness, so want to maintain how I can help in this area as well.
I’m not changing who I am, but what it is that I am doing. This doesn’t seem as scary and goes along with my current values on health and wellness.
I’m very excited to start this new transition when term 3 begins in late July.
Whereas, making a transformation of who I am currently into something “better” seems a lot harder and seems like I’m not already a good person. For example, if you feel you are overweight and want to lose weight, you don’t have to transform who you are to lose weight, you could just need a transition from your current exercise and diet into something different. You aren’t changing yourself, you are already an awesome person.
Both have uncertainty about them, but one seems way scarier to me.
What one would you like to do, make a transition or a transformation?
Transition versus Transformation
