I love spring.

The cherry blossom is starting to come out in our road, and the clocks have changed.

I love the lighter evenings, the longer days, the warmth and the sunshine.

It’s a new season, the start of a new cycle, the opportunity to reflect and reset.

So what do I want it to be about?

I’m looking ahead and reflecting on:

What’s already planned that I need to be aware of? Where are the gaps and the crunch points?
Where would I like to focus more time and energy on, and what do I need to put in place to make that happen?
How would I like to be feeling along the way, and how can I support myself to feel that way?

More and more I’m embracing the usefulness of thinking in seasons - both for me and for the people I work with - because life isn’t one continuous path.

It’s a series of seasons, cycles, phases and stages - often easier to see when we look back, but still visible if we look ahead at what’s on the horizon.

A season or cycle could be weeks, months or years - it depends on what we see when we cast our minds ahead and look at the natural rhythms of the calendar, or the milestones and stages of our lives.

And once we can see the season we’re in? We can start to explore what we want it to be about, and how to bring that to life. Some of it we can see, some of it we can’t, and the rest we will figure out as we go.

What season are you in?

When does it start and when might it end?

And what would you love it to be about?

Wishing you all a week of seasonal planning,