Thanks to a continued mindfulness practice, when I — and all of my esteemed agile delivery colleagues — were laid off last week, I immediately focused my attention to the expression: begin again.

While these methods work in most adjacent career fields, I specifically tested them with success in charting my course from being a high school humanities teacher to Agile Delivery Lead/scrum master in a financial firm that operates like a tech organization. I will share these transition steps in the vein of a “stop, start, continue” retrospective.