Winter’s a tough season. Here in Boston, it was below zero all day yesterday. You couldn’t spend more than a few minutes outside. Winter slows you down. The days are darker. The nights are colder. You hardly want to work. Life just seems to crawl in the winter. No one wants to leave their house or do much of anything. But the thing about winter is it’s a part of life. It’s one of the four seasons. One-fourth of your entire year (closer to one-third if you live in the Northeast). Plants go underground in the winter. Birds fly south. Bears hibernate. Everything slows down and takes a break. It’s our resting time every year. Our time to slow down and preserve our energy so we have enough oomph to boost through the ground with the plants come spring. But I’ve never been very good at resting. I like to go. I like to move. I like to drop one project and excitedly think about the next. So, for me, winter’s always been a bit challenging. And, lately, I’ve been moving. The long-awaited blogging course was totally finished just before I left for Aruba. Until one-third of the files got corrupted. And I have to redo those. So I yelled. I screamed. I threw a hissy fit for about five minutes. And then I let go and realized it’s just part of life. When my sister was desperate for a babysitter for my niece yesterday, I set my schedule even further back and drove down to watch her. And, as we were playing with building blocks and watching Doc McStuffins, I realized that maybe winter isn’t a setback at all. Maybe it’s just a way to force us to get back on track. To remember our priorities. To remember what’s important in life. When my course files corrupted, it gave me a chance to go off to Aruba and think about how I can best improve them. When my sister’s babysitters fell through, it gave me a chance to spend an entire day with niece. It wasn’t slowing me down because there’s no race to win. It was helping me remember why I’m doing all of this in the first place. We’re so stubborn, aren’t we? We have this idea in our head, and we can’t shake it. We race straight toward that. And sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn’t. But that doesn’t always mean it’s a setback. Maybe it’s just a way to get you back on course. Maybe that’s what winter is for us. A time to slow down. A time to reflect. A time to figure out what we really want to create and do and be this year. We’re stuck indoors. Life slows down. We might as well make the most of it. Spending more time with loved ones. Reading new books. Journaling. Meditating. Laughing. Figuring out how to become the people we always said we’d be. Without this time to stop and look around, we’d miss life completely. It’d just fly by without us even knowing. Like summer. It’s beautiful. It’s exciting. But it whizzes right by. And this is your year. This is the year that you’re going to accomplish something amazing. This is the year that you’re going to create success on your own terms. So don’t rush into it. Don’t go straight toward something you don’t even want in the first place. Slow down. Reflect. Get clear. And then surge ahead, knowing that you’re good enough to get everything you’ve ever wanted. That’s part of life. That’s part of success. And you deserve it. All of it. Even the winter.
Posted on: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 13:58:55 +0000
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