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JOBS for TEAMS | 18 www.jobsfor teams.com Manliness The Art of by Brett and Kate McKay courtesy of artofmanliness.com How to become your family's transitional character B eing a transitional character means looking at any vice or problem that's been a common thread throughout your family histo- ry and deciding: "It stops with me." With that said, becoming a transi- tional character is often easier said than done. You're fighting against the stream of deeply ingrained patterns that you picked up in childhood and throughout your formative years. Becoming a transitional character requires you to completely trans- form how you see and respond to your world and environment. It's a difficult task fraught with missteps and backsliding. But it can be done. Below we provide some research- backed suggestions on how to forge a new chain in your family history by becoming a transitional character: 1. See yourself as a transitional character. The initial step in becoming a transitional character is simply to see yourself as one, and to make that