As the year draws to a close and autumn turns to winter, the holidays sometimes encourage us contemplate what we have accomplished through the last year, and what can we expect from the next season and the next year. Nature has given us a carefully balanced earth with its changing seasons. Our attitude determines how we adjust and take advantage of the seasons of life. We can take the resources of the earth and the time on this planet that we have and either develop it or destroy it.
By our attitude we decide what choices we will make and how we will react to the seasons. Our attitude determines the choices we make, and our choices decide our results. As Jim Rohn says, "In the cycles and seasons of life, attitude is everything!"
The weather and the seasons are the same for everyone, but it's our attitude that determines how well we use the advantages and challenges in each season. You can't change the weather or the seasons, but you can change yourself and how you adjust to and use the seasons.
Since winter is almost upon us, let's discuss how to handle the winters of our lives. Winters come regularly, every year in natural sequence. Some are long, others are short. Some are difficult, some are more mild, but they always arrive after autumn. That doesn't change.
Jim Rohn teaches that "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.
We move into a winter when we meet disappointment. No one goes through life without cycling through some disappointment. Just like we layer on more clothing and the animals put on their winter coats, so we learn how to develop emotional insulation so we can more easily handle the winters. We all must learn to handle difficulty. Just as a roller coaster goes down after it goes up, so discouragement always follows a great opportunity. Recessions follow expansions. That doesn't change.
The attitude question is this: What do you do about your winters? You can't get eliminate January by simply ripping it out of the calendar. But what you can do during the winters of your life is take time to contemplate, to get stronger, to learn more, and become better.
Jim Rohn said, "Before I understood this, I used to wish it were summer when it was winter. When things were difficult, I used to wish they were easy. I didn't know any better." Then he received his famous answer that changed his philosophy of life and set him on the road to tremendous personal achievement. "Don't wish it were easier; wish you were better. Don't wish for fewer problems; wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenge; wish for more wisdom."
That's what we do in the winters of our life. Just like farmer get out the seed catalogs, so we set goals, we dream big, we review the past and make new resolves, we evaluate and practice our skills, we get together with our team and learn to bond, trust, and enjoy each other more.
That's what the holidays and winter is for. It's for getting ready for tremendous spring planting. At Xyngular spring planting comes early because January is the month where the whole world thinks a lot about weight loss. So enjoy your holiday gatherings. Prepare your team for tremendous growth. Set your goals, plan your strategies, and the New Year will be your best year ever.
ACTION STEPS:
1. Plan now for the end of the year planning and goal-setting meetings with your team. You have an urgent January schedule to plan.
2. Sharpen your team's scripts and contacting skills with a few role-playing sessions. Get your contact lists written and your 3-way calls scheduled.
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