Season Changes, Time of Harvest & Celebrations

As the weather turns cooler, the leaves of the trees surrounding my house are turning brown and when I walk my cutie-pie dog, Swift, the ground is starting to be covered with leaves… This is my favourite time of year, when the air cools and becomes fresh while we all bundle up and start wearing our winter boots, scarves, sweaters and jackets.

At each change of the season, I take time to reflect on the past chapter and set intentions for the new season. I shared with you already a bit about this in my previous email/post about setting intentions. Today, I’d like to share with you an exercise I do to reflect on the past season and celebrate all the learning, experiences and accomplishments!
 
3 Easy Steps to Celebrate the Season

1. Reflect: This is where you take time with your favourite journal and a delicious cup of tea (since it’s fall my #1 choice this time of year is chai tea) to take time to reflect on all that you’ve accomplished, experienced and done over the past season.

• What have you accomplished?
• What amazing experiences have you had?
• What have you learned? How have you changed/grown?
• What were your intentions and what was your actual experience?

For me, I’ve accomplished some MASSIVE LIFE CHANGES... actually these
three things happened all in a space of two weeks in June!!!

1. Married my best friend and amazing life partner, Paul.
2. Graduated from my MBA program and received an award for my leadership and personal development demonstrated on the program.
3. Started working on a Board of Directors (which was an intention I set but didn’t expect to realize for another 10 years or so!)

So what about you? What comes up for you as you reflect on the past 3-6
months?

2. Gather & Harvest: As part of the harvest autumn season, this is where you can gather together all you’ve created over the past few months. Take the time to see what you can harvest from your efforts!

• What have you been creating? (hint: what has been your focus the past season?)
• What was your intention?
• Where did you spend your energy and time?
• What were you growing/changing/expanding?

3. Celebrate: Now this is where you can do something special to acknowledge all you’ve achieved, accomplished, experienced and changed in your life…

• How do you want to acknowledge and celebrate your wins?
• What would make you feel special?
• What would be a super fun way to mark all you’ve experienced, learned and grown in your life this past season?
• What would be meaningful?
• How can you celebrate both your personal and professional achievements?

For me, I’m going to celebrate a few ways:

1. Vegas Vacation for a Week! To celebrate my new amazing husband on a fun getaway and to also celebrate my biz achievements with my powerhouse coaching sisters.
2. Launching a new Blog where I’ll gather all of my content for you in one spot… more info to come soon!
3. Personally, I’m also going to take some time to celebrate the massive changes that have occurred the past few months, I got married, completed my MBA and formally launched my online coaching business.

Each one of these items I’ve been building towards and dreaming about for over 5 years! So I’ll be taking time to celebrate and acknowledge all
these MASSIVE LIFE CHANGES!

So what about you? How are you going to celebrate all your accomplishments this past season? It may not be a trip, but perhaps a special evening with friends or family, sharing with others on social media or just a quiet day at home reflecting on your own.

However you choose to reflect, gather and celebrate, enjoy the process!
Allow it all to be acknowledged, really witnessed and celebrated!

It is easy to focus only on what is missing, what you’re building toward or what you didn’t quite achieve. But truly, there is SO MUCH to be CELEBRATED!!!  

Enjoy taking time to shift gears with the season and acknowledge this transition into a new phase by reflecting all that the last season brought into your life and preparing to live with intention in the new season.

Much love,
Sarah