Priya Parker describes the Japanese tea master concept of “ichigo ichie” as it relates to events. The great tea masters of Japan believed that “if you step into the same spot of a river, a week from now the river has changed, but so have you.”
Every day is one chance in a lifetime as we will never have a day (or moment) exactly like this one again.
Believe it or not, today is the first day of fall and the weather outside is frightful.
3 months until Christmas, and then we hit 2019.
2018 has been full of stress and challenges for all of us, we might be thankful to not see a lot of these moments again.
The changing of the seasons is a good place to stop and reflect on how gracefully we have come through the year, think about what we’ve learned, and who we have become in the process.
The turn of seasons also has me stopping to think how the year is shaping up. This year has held several new beginnings for me and I’ve been pleased with each of them as they’ve come to manifest. This means that new things are waiting to be explored while I wait to see what the results of my work will be.
The final quarter is a good time to start thinking about next year and where you are headed.
They say if you aren’t growing, you’re dying… where do you see yourself growing next?