What Now? Series #1 | Seasons of Change

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The first week of January is loud.
Set goals. Make resolutions. New year, new you.
But every meaningful change actually starts with a quieter question:
Where am I now?
Before chasing new goals or redesigning your future, I always pause with my clients to understand their current landscape. Not just what’s happening, but how it feels. Their energy. Their values. Their hopes. And yes, their fatigue too.
Because here’s the truth: not everyone enters January in “spring” mode. Some of us are still in winter, and that’s okay.
Life doesn’t move in straight lines. It moves in cycles.
Nature shows us this constantly, doesn’t it? Day and night. The turning of the seasons. Each phase carries its own wisdom.
Night is for being. Resting. Reflecting. Healing. Day is for doing. Building. Connecting. Acting.
One without the other loses meaning.

So, why do we expect ourselves to operate at full speed all year long?
The same rhythms apply to the seasons of our lives:

  • Spring invites curiosity and new beginnings.
  • Summer asks for consistency, action, and growth.
  • Autumn brings harvest, and letting go.
  • Winter calls for rest, renewal, and deep recalibration.

 

 

But here’s what I see often: leaders pushing through winter as if it were summer. Professionals feeling guilty for needing rest. People wondering why they feel “off” when, really, they’re just in a different season.

When we stop resisting these rhythms and start working with them, something shifts. As Katherine May writes in Wintering, nature doesn’t fight the season it’s in. Neither should we.

So if you’re feeling restless, tired, hopeful, or uncertain right now: it may not mean something is wrong.
It may simply mean you’re navigating a transition.
And that’s not weakness. That’s wisdom.

I’m curious: Where’s your starting point this January? Where are you in your life cycle right now?