August: the soup of seasons

I wrote last week how different this August felt. There was some space away from my biggest job of parenting that allowed a few other things in my world.

What didn’t change about August was the long list of to-dos. 

August is a month of firsts, otherwise known as FFTs.

One of the biggest firsts, whether you’re a parent or not, is an earlier (and earlier) start to school. It affects retail, traffic, and the whole dynamic of life and work flow, not to mention what it does to the mental load of planning for everything else.

It didn’t used to be this way. 

Growing up, the month of August was STILL summer versus the soup of seasons it is now. Our current version makes it hard to know what season or headspace you’re supposed to be in right now. It’s still the hottest month of the year, the pool is still open and no one wants to go to bed, including me. 

And yet here we are, in the month that requires a hard right into a totally new mindset, routine and need for full readiness. Ready or not.

Where do you find yourself in the soup? 

Maybe you are ready. For the structure and for the reset. 

It’s an opportunity if you see it that way. To consider where you are. To zoom out and decide what you want the rest of the year to look like. (After you get them to school or through the traffic, that is.)

This is exactly what we’re doing right now in our groups – challenging clients to challenge their perspectives and words: 

-I can’t keep up.

-I am overwhelmed. 

-I’ve been consumed by August.

Maybe we need a reframe here. You are lots of things, but claiming limiting identities and perspectives won’t get you to where you want to be. 

AND – maybe you need to drop something. 

Say no. 

Let something go. 

Give up a whole category, even. Just for a season. 

What would that be for you? 

We love this question and we love to help clients navigate opportunities and possibilities. For getting unstuck. For finding that next level. 

We even designed a course for this. Emerge is designed for women leaders. To help them, at the deepest level, identify where they are and what’s keeping them from getting to a new level. Wrapping up our summer cohort last week, this group testified to what happened for them over the course of 8 weeks. What they experienced was profound growth and transformation, with an inside-out kind of change that sticks with you for the long haul. 

We’re talking about the kind of change I don’t want you to miss, because it’s an opportunity at finding yourself in a new way, in a new season. 

The question is, will you take it? 

If you’re curious, email me for more. You can’t imagine what’s waiting on the other side!