Learning to handle winter

There are all kinds of winters-the “winter” when you can’t figure it out, the “winter” when everything seems to go haywire. There are economic winters, social winters and personal winters.

Wintertime can bring disappointment, and disappointment is common to all of us.

So we must learn how to handle the winters.

We must learn how to handle difficulty; it always comes after opportunity.

We must learn how to handle recessions; they come right after expansions.

That isn’t going to change.

The big question is what do we do about winters? We can’t get rid of January or February simply by tearing it off the calendar.

But here is what we can do: we can hibernate (slow down, appreciate life, rest, dream, plan.)

We can also get stronger; we can get wiser; and we can get better. Stronger, wiser, better. The winters won’t change but we can!

And I would add…

“Don’t just wish!

Decide and choose, plan and act.

There’s no better time than now, whatever the weather! Do you choose to hibernate? to rest and to plan?

Or do you plan to develop more skills? Seek out and acquire more wisdom?

It’s always our choice!