PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT.

The Seasons Of Life.

I want you to consider these two phrases: The first is "Life and commerce are like the seasons." The second is "You cannot change the seasons but you can change yourself."

With these two phrases as guides, let us take a look at the seasons of life and how to handle them.

Winter: A Time to Grow Strong

You must first and foremost learn how to handle winters. There are economic winters, when the financial wolves (lack of money, need for money to carter for needs etc) are at the door; there are physical winters, when our health is poor or physical handicap; there are personal winters, when our heart is smashed to pieces.
Wintertime. Disappointments. Loneliness.

Now the big question is how do we handle the winters since we can not wish it away or run from it. Let me tell you what mature people do: They get stronger. They get wiser. They get better. It is never a bad idea to use the winter for personal development. Winters like a furnace can forge out a better person out of you, prep and ready for the next seasons in life.
Before I understood this, I used to spend my winters looking for summers. I did not understand.

From my predicaments I learnt the following:

"Do not wish it were easier, wish you were better.
Do not wish for fewer problems, wish for more skills.
Do not wish for less of a challenge, wish for more wisdom."

Since then I can not honestly tell you that I have welcomed the winters, but I can tell you that I have used them to gear up for spring which always comes after winter.

Precious Diala Sparrow