Sylvania: Guardian Angel of Transitions

about passion than in anything I’d read. Between 2012 and 2014, there was a popular movement called the Passion Project. Although I knew a few people who were part of it, the way they spoke about passion didn’t resonate with me. The project isn’t really around anymore, so I suppose it stopped resonating with others as well. For me it felt like a hopeless pursuit and something outside of the way I personally move through the world.

Unlike my wife, who is a very sensitive and emotional flower, I am super cerebral; I tend to intellectualize my emotions instead of wearing them. The whole “passion” thing seemed to be about finding your passion flag, turning it into a power suit, and then singing about passion from the rooftops. That is so not me, and I was sure I was never going to find my passion or figure out what it meant for people like me. It was through Solis that I learned that passion is an energy that shifts, moves, bends, changes, and flows. It is not one single thing, nor is it static and immovable. Most importantly, he taught me that although passion isn’t going to look the same for everyone, you should be able to feel similarities. Switching from thinking about passion as an energy—rather than an attachment to a thing or person—changed my world forever. Who knows, maybe it will change yours as well.

You will know when Solis is around, as his energy feels like spring sun on a late winter day. It is just the right sort of warmth that brings a sudden smile to your face, the type of sunlight that allows you to drop your shoulders, take a deep breath, and feel like all’s right with the world. Solis calls this his passionfor-life breath. Things tend to flow much easier when Solis is around, and time seems to speed up because you are enjoying yourself so much. Passion is one of those energies that sneaks up on you and before you know it, you have lost hours because you were so focused on what you were doing that the whole world just faded away. These are the moments where Solis burns the brightest, in the flow of your personal joy, whatever that might be for you. Passion is also very unique to the individual—what lights the fires of passion energy in one person won’t be the same for another, but we can all be thankful that guardian angel Solis is here to assist us.

Sylvania: Guardian Angel of Transitions

Because I believe in transparency, I need to admit that this guardian is new to me. Sylvania came to me about six months before I began mapping out this

book. At the time, I was working my buns off with a business that doesn’t exist anymore and wrapping up a couple of deck and book projects. My time, energy, and mind were stretched beyond capacity, and I was worried I was not going to keep all my commitments. This was when Sylvania stepped in and showed me the path to the magical part of the daily routine known as transition. I knew about the concept but had not been very good at putting it into practice in my daily life. Luckily for me, Sylvania was there. I truly believe that if I had stuck to this angel’s protocols, I would not have burned out at the end of 2021. That’s how important Sylvania’s lessons are.

This particular guardian is not really an organizer, nor would I call them efficient in any other aspect except for their own. But when it comes to transitions, space, and all the little micro-gaps in our day and life, this guardian is an expert magic-maker. Believe it or not, we have a lot of time in the day in which we allow our energy to leak out, our minds to stray, and our body to freeze. For the most part, we do not notice this happening at all because we aren’t taught about transitions. I personally learned about them from Brendon Burchard through the Growth Day app, an app for entrepreneurs that helps them, well, grow. Sylvania and I decided that if transitions were important for entrepreneurs to learn, they were doubly important for everyone else—because it is in dealing with small everyday tasks that we usually experience burnout.

It is important to point out here that Sylvania is not just a magical guardian for the extremely busy. They are an everyday angel whose purpose is to assist us through our day-to-day goings-on, even if we aren’t overworked. There is no entry point in asking for this guardian’s help or assistance. We all go through multiple transitions in our life, which will be explored in the pages of Sylvania’s chapter. Everyone will need this angel’s assistance at some point, if not right now, though the angels and I are confident that once you have worked with transitions for a full month, your mind will be blown when you understand how important they actually are. You will notice when Sylvania is around because there will be a flutter of energy in between tasks, a feeling like a butterfly wing beating on your hand when seasons are about to change, a tickling sensation when the traffic is about to change, or a whisper to get up and walk around when you have finished one task at your computer. This guardian is about letting you know a space or gap has appeared and it is time to use it to clear, reset,