Thanks Nicole!

Friday, July 11^th was Nicole Zorn’s last day with the Stapley Center team at Great American Title Agency.  To say it was a tough day for all of us is an understatement. Don’t get me wrong the day was not a downer, it was simply tough.

Nicole, her husband, David and their son Ethan are off on a new “grand new adventure”.  David has accepted great new position with a radio station in Flagstaff and so they are in transition.

Transition is a part of life.  Transition is exciting and hard.  We actually transition every day.  We transition from pj’s to clothes; from home to work; from breakfast to lunch; from school as a child to work as an adult.  Hopefully we transition well. 

When we fail to transition we really begin to die.

 Nicole and I talked a lot about this move and her family’s transition.  Nicole will need to find a new job; Ethan will be in a new school.  David has a huge new responsibility.  There will be church, and a spot to call home, even though the dogs must go to the park for walks, and there will be new friends.  

Hey, Nicole, remember “Make new friends, but keep the old, one is silver and the other gold.”

Nicole is a survivor.  She is talented, gifted and skilled.  Nicole has the ability to look at life for what life is. 

I find it how interesting life works out. 

Before we learned of David’s new job our team began looking forward to a fall seminar we are sponsoring and in preparation we committed to study a book, Michael Maher’s book, the 7 Levels of Communication. 

In the book Mr. Maher uses an acronym for life. Today as I think about Nicole and her family adventure, I find life’s timing interesting.

LIFE = learn, implement, fail, evaluate.

Michael likens life to a spiral staircase.  Take a step out in faith, learn something new, implement what we believe is best, and should it fail simply evaluate what needs to change and step up to the next step.  Think about it a spiral staircase always moves up.  To me that is growing.

I have been where Nicole is.  Ken and I moved from Oregon to Arizona in 1996.  We adjusted to a new community, new home, new friends, and found jobs.  We are stronger, better people for making the move.

So Nicole, my thoughts and my prayers are with you.

 You are going to make it “baby girl”.  There will be a new church to call home, a new team to join, and as Nana would say, “a new grand adventure” for you to love.