Seasonal Riptides

While meal prepping today I noticed I miss the small things I used to do.  Listen to an audible or podcast while making breakfast, making my own coffee instead of constantly going to grab some, food prepping, blogging, or simply sitting down before sunrise and reading a book.  I miss lifting and jiu jitsu as play rather than it being a chore or another task item.

But that's the beauty of personal seasons.  You're going to have your dips.  Your winters where there is calm and stillness.  Spring where everything blooms all at once because we live in Wisconsin and we can't just slowly slip into summer.  Things blooming all at once is how I view getting 7 new members or clients in a three day span.  Like, "WHOA!  Hold on!"  
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Summer where you have to motivate yourself because the day is so beautiful and "why do I have to work today, lift today, stay on task today, I don't want to, this is stupid, fine I'll do it anyways but I don't wanna and I'll be sure you know it."  Come on, you've never felt that on a 100 degree day with 90% humidity because even Wisconsin wants to be Florida-Man sometimes?

And then there is fall. Beautiful, crisp days with warm sun, fall.  You know change is coming but you welcome it.  You are ready for it.  The last hurrah before the stillness settles in.  That may be why spring seems to catch us off guard.  Nine months of stillness can cause complacency. 

Some days you have to fight the season and stay the course.  Then there are the days you honor where you are and go with the flow.  That whole balance thing is figuring out when to swim against the current, go with the current, or simply float.