Life is made up a seasons, just like the weather. You create an idea, open a business or enter a relationship. First comes the planting or planning stages, then the growing stage and if everything goes as planned, the fall harvest allows you to be rewarded or enjoy the fruit of your labor.
This is always followed by the winter season, the end of a cycle. If you are like most farmers, you plant your seeds, you nourish your ideas and relationships. Although you expect your hard work to produce results, success and reward, sometimes things happen along the way. Take the farmer for example, if a storm comes along two weeks before harvest and destroys his crops, he does not quit farming, he has a lean year and plants again next spring, hoping for better weather.
Most farmers work hard all summer, then enjoy the fall harvest and use the winter months to plan, learn and prepare for the coming spring season. I think we can all learn a great deal from the farmer.
If you are in a relationship, which season are you in? If you opened a business and it is not where you want it to be, maybe you are still in the spring season. Like seeds in the garden, it takes warm weather, water and sunshine to grow the plants.
This Thanksgiving, I look back and think of all the things that I am thankful for. Not just the big things, but the small things too. I want to wish everyone a Happy and Safe Thanksgiving. I will be posting a special edition of Life Coach Radio this year for Thanksgiving. Please be sure and tune it to hear my Thanksgiving special.
Jeff
