Seasons Change

It's by design. We acknowledge the change of seasons, and either welcome them or simply accept them as a natural reality. The changes of seasons are more dramatically noticeable in some areas than others, but they are marked on calendars everywhere, regardless of the weather changing or not. 

We also pay attention to seasons of life. We are aware of celebrating new life, transitions through various stages that mark change, getting older and the punctuation of death.

But often we ignore the seasons of business or ministry. With the initial burst of energy and enthusiasm required to begin something new, there is a euphoric and satisfying
sense that accompanies each stage of completion. Through this spring time we work very hard, put in a lot of hours and think of little else. Often, we don't realize how fatigued we 
are until the initial phases are completed.

As the summer season is often a result of what happens in spring, business and ministry enjoys the same flow, depending on the right elements to produce the desired harvest.
This can be a time of maintaining, fine tuning and revising new projects, adjusting staff, and perhaps discovering some elements that didn't turn out as planned.

As surely as the summer season precedes autumn, we see the last elements of the harvest and take the time in the winter season to assess, reflect and begin to plan for new projects, further development and increase. 

Identifying and acknowledging the season your organization is in right now could be an important element in assessing your situation. Seasons of repentance, preparation and learning, growing and becoming that is all a part of God's creative way of leading us through seasons of change. JS 

KEY QUESTIONS:

1 Can you identify the season of your business or ministry? 

2 Have you noticed that nothing has changed much recently? Are you leading the way or barely keeping up?

3 What would be a stretch to increase quality or quantity? 

4 Do you feel like you may have dozed through a season of change and now need to catch up?
What needs to happen for that to take place? What could be improved by working with a coach?