What Season Are You In?

I am writing this while sitting on the couch and mentally preparing to deliver my baby girl tomorrow morning. Some of you may know this, but for those of you who don’t, my third child is on the way! (Yes, third—who could have imagined?) And while contemplating what tomorrow will bring, I started thinking about seasons. Not the obvious ones like summer or winter, fall or spring, but the ones we move through in our lives.

Seasons where we keep building, pushing, achieving, and showing up consistently… and the seasons where life asks us to slow down, to step back, and to focus more on just being “present” rather than “productive.”

For a long time, I had the belief that in order to be successful in your professional life, you had to ensure you remained within the same “season” as not to lose momentum. I told myself that you constantly needed to keep going and keep producing, working, learning, building.

But the closer I get to meeting our baby, the more I have realized that this is a different kind of season. One where I am not supposed to obsess over a distant future, but instead one where I should focus on the here and now. And ensure I realize how beautiful and warming these precious moments are.

This is actually one of the reasons why I love growing our family. Whether I want it or not, it does force you to slow down and rewire your brain a little differently. And I believe that this is also part of the work. How can you keep building a better life for yourself if you never step back and let your brain rewire? Because like any successful business, it cannot function without innovation, without makeovers, without the owners taking a step back and thinking about what is working, what is not, and how to change it for the better.

So for the next little while, I’ll be stepping away from writing here (for quite obvious reasons). I am also not treating this time as a break or a gap, but as a shift into a different season—one I want to be fully in, and which is one part of the work, of the full picture.

I wanted to thank my loyal readers who have been with me for almost two years, and those who joined along the way. I also want to thank the new readers who joined this newsletter not that long ago. I promise I will be back—maybe sooner than you or I expect. I don’t really know when that will happen, but what I do know is that we don’t have to hold ourselves to the same pace in every season of life.

Maybe this is something for you to reflect on as well:

What season are you in right now—and are you allowing yourself to fully be in it?

With love,

Diana