The Secret of Transitions: How to Move Effortlessly to Higher Levels of Success

By Jim Manton

Wherever you are in your career, this book will make your transition to the next level effortless and immediate. With user-friendly exercises, you will be able to apply lesson after exciting lesson to your own life so that your success is NOW rather than later. Manton's own deeply moving personal journey of transitions is a thread that runs through this book like a novel you can't put down. He teaches principles with electrifying, dramatic stories of life and death in the combat zone of Viet Nam, intriguing martial arts learning experiences, real world stories of personal courage and growth, and unsolvable workplace dilemmas solved through transitioning techniques all readers can use. Jim Manton draws on his many years as a top high tech executive as well as his current work as a career coach to give the reader a true handbook for success in this rapidly-changing world...a book that shows you how to make your transitions yourself, with vision, skill and purpose, without waiting for change to happen to you.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1931741913
• ISBN13: 9781931741910
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Robert Reed Publishers
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Uplifting and Powerful

In Chapter Six of The Secret of Transitions, author Jim Manton reveals a powerful and intimate moment from his own life. He was a soldier in Viet Nam, and his squad was taking heavy fire from the "enemy." In the midst of the noise of guns and injured soldiers screaming, he found himself suddenly looking into the eyes of a North Vietnamese soldier. In spite of the intense programming to "kill the enemy," he had an epiphany, he saw the man as a friend and was unable to raise his rifle and shoot him. It was a transition that called forth a different way of looking at himself and the reality of his life. Jim Manton made a powerful spiritual transition in that one moment. Now, years later, he has given us this concisely-written book to help us create our own transitions. Highly recommended.

Fearless Transition...Are You Ready?

The back cover of "The Secret of Transitions" reads "A Life-Changing Book!" However - I found it to be "A Reality-Changing Book." I first read Jim's book while going through 3 major transitions...Moving 1600 miles away, reinventing my business (and myself) and choosing to follow my passion of music and singing professionally. Reading this book transformed my fears into excitement and opened up a whole new way of thinking that made my transitions flow effortlessly! If you have already experienced some degree of success in your career, business and relationships, but your heart is telling you there's more - The Secret of Transitions will guide you on many levels and take you beyond your imagination...beyond your fears! It's a book/experience that makes sense to your mind, speaks to your heart and dances with your soul and life's purpose. Are you ready?

Feel Good About Life

I have personally known Mr. Manton for over 40 years and can certainly vouch that he has indeed led an extremely interesting life. From college life to Vietnam to corporate life, he has experienced life's highs and lows; thus, making him the person he is today. Jim is very personable and knowledgeable, and as such, has risen to a success level to be admired. The essence of who Jim is, and what he believes in, are eloquently captured in his book. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who may want to do a little self examination, who may be facing major changes in life, or who simply wants to feel better about life.

This book is extraordinary

I saw an early version of this book's manuscript and wrote a blurb for the jacket of the book because I found the book to be absolutely EXTRAORDINARY......Jim Manton tells some hair-raising stories about Viet Nam, some heartbraeking stories about things I won't say or I'll spoil it for you and in the middle walks you through a dramatic series of professional transitions made by people in a company who are originally filled with fear and mistrust and dysfunction and end up working together like the team we all want to be on. Jim Manton gives you his own coaching process in action throughout this story, and brings home the realization that when we are NOT in transition, we are stuck. Dead in the water. This book is a startling blend of touchingly personal revelations and instructive action plans any reader can follow to get the courage to transition to greater levels of fulfillment. To answer the call we know is there.

Transitioning With Purpose

Jim Manton writes "The Secrets of Transition" in a first person narrative that incorporates personal experiences and insights, with a successful case study and examples from experiences with his clients that validate and illustrate the important elements talked about within the book. I found Jim's guidance challenging and timely. I am, personally, in a period of transition. I now understand more fully the element of courage and the importance of choosing courage as an action step in getting unstuck, to look at my strengths, to use them fully, finding their purpose, and making a contribution to others. I discovered that transitioning is a process of looking inward and finding the truth about one's self. Transitioning moves beyond recycling the past and "only finds traction in the present moment." Whether I am searching for validation, suffering from a lack of vision, or failing to look at reality I learned that I can generate any action by understanding and changing my thought patterns. I appreciated the way Jim approached the subject of personal relationships and the power of collaboration. He offers the reader the way to experience and transition from painful emotional battlefields, of betrayal, struggles with people to the "world of spirit and joy," He challenge the reader to create a relationship of trust and the power of forgiveness. Jim Manton is an outstanding and charismatic communicator. His writing is exceptional, and challenging. Jim goes beyond motivational writing to a level of genuine life coaching. "The Secret of Transition" is an extraordinary reading experience.