How to Honour the Different Seasons of Your Life
Humans are cyclical beings, we are always evolving and changing like nature.
Society conditions us to think we always need to be in one mode all the time which is hustling and striving towards our career and financial goals otherwise, we are considered lazy or falling behind in life.
I want to offer a different perspective and approach.
If you go full out every day of the year, you will be burnt out and exhausted most likely, and also maybe not as happy and fulfilled. Think of how much more efficient you would be if you intentionally let yourself rest and meet all your other needs.
You get to define success, and success can look however you like.
Success to me means a healthy mind and body, loving relationships, fun adventures, time for hobbies, work I enjoy, always learning and growing. I give myself grace and accept that not every season of my life will be about growing my business and “getting ahead” in life. That works really well for me.
Besides growing my business I have had so many different seasons in my life where I focused on other things such as:
Making new friends
Quality time with family
Dating and new romance blooming
Focusing on my mental health
Improving my physical health
Taking courses and trainings
Healing & inner work
Creating lots & refining my skills
Travel and adventure
Grounding and settling down in one place
Saving money
Investing in myself
Embodying more confidence and empowerment
Embodying more surrender, flow and trust
Partying, going out and having fun
Networking & going to business events
Just focused on surviving and getting to the next day
More solitude
You can relate the different seasons of your life to the different seasons in nature.
Summer: Nature in full bloom, lots of sunshine, longest days = Lots of creativity, energy, getting work done, being centre stage, full productive days
Fall: Nature starts to die, sun loses its strength, days get shorter = Your energy is winding down, parts of you/your life that aren’t serving you die away, letting go
Winter: Death and hibernation, sun is weak and days are shortest = Conserve your energy, go inward, solitude, reflection, the void or empty space between something ending and something beginning
Spring: New birth of nature, sun is building in strength, days start to get longer = Inspiration, new projects, change is in the air, fresh start, curiosity, wanting to be around people again
All seasons are needed, there could be no Fall without Summer, no Spring without Winter.
So whichever season you are in, honour it instead of resisting.
I’m giving this advice because I definitely resisted seasons where my life felt like it was falling apart and things were slowing down. But now looking back I can see that everything that was leaving my life was not meant for me and it was clearing space for even more amazing people, places and opportunities that were aligned with my highest path.
So if you are going through that right now, know that nothing is wrong with you.
Fall and Winter can feel difficult because slowing down and letting go can be hard but I promise your season of Spring and Summer are coming.
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