Sowing new seeds

Spring! Isn’t it glorious? I love how Spring is so full of hope and promise for the months ahead. For me, Spring has always been the time for a restart, or a refresh – it’s far more invigorating and positive to do it now, rather than during the coldest darkest days at the turn of the year.

This year my life is VERY different. Having left paid employment I am embarking on a new venture, setting up a coaching practice, focused on supporting women to live their best lives. The seed of coaching was sown some time ago, and I have nurtured it inside my head for a long time. Then when my mother died last year, I used some of the money she left me to invest in my training. As a final gift to me, it’s pretty special, from the woman who taught me independence and confidence, compassion and a can-do attitude.

So, this Spring I have much to do as the birds start nesting and flocking around our bird feeders, the lambs prink and pronk in the fields, the tulips all shout ‘look at me’ in their clashing colours, and the bumble bees bumble around lazily. I can be the best version of myself if I get out and walk on the beach with the dogs, but I’ll admit that it’s taking time for me to re-calibrate my brain, to encourage myself to do this regularly during ‘work hours’.

Spring seems to burst into our lives. But really it’s been slowly developing over those short Winter days. And similarly, over the last year I have taken time and space to think about what the next chapter of my life might hold, to nurture the seeds of possibility. All my thinking would still be in the mulling stage if I hadn’t worked with a coach to help me to tease out my answers, my What Nexts.

So, as Spring does its joyous thing all around us, I’ve very intentionally been asking myself a couple more questions.

My questions today are:

What new seeds do I want to sow in my life?

and

What in my life needs some help to flourish?

Brewing coffee on the beach. Perfect