I hope you had a wonderful Labor Day weekend.
In addition to symbolizing so many good things about our working world — weekends off, child labor laws, minimum wage, safety, discrimination laws, etc. — Labor Day marks many changes.
It’s back to school season!
Gone are the long hot days of lazing down the river.
The sun sets earlier and the nights grow cooler.
Kids are back in the classrooms and on the playgrounds.
Summer shifts towards fall.
Crops are harvested.
Although I’m not a student and work summers, I can’t help but shift into back-to-work mode.
What growth can be reaped from this year, so far?
What do I want to celebrate by the end of the year?
How can I best use 2018’s final 100 days or so to finish strong?
Retrospection, Introspection, Future-spection (otherwise known as Future Retrospection)
I’m wrapping up my last few days of summer in my home-state of Montana, completing dream projects and looking back and ahead. Here’s the labyrinth my mother and I measured out last summer. We’ve hauled and placed several truckloads of rocks and finally finished yesterday. Then I’m off to Arizona for the final stretch of 2018!
I love to take the opportunity with season’s change to look back over the year, what I’d expected and hoped for so far, and what remains for me to shift or complete in order to realize my highest intentions for 2018.
For harvest and celebration: I’m aware of so much goodness in my world. My health holds steady and even continues to improve, so long as I give myself enough rest and care. I was blessed to lead another deeply transformative retreat with a wondrous group of women in Glacier National Park. My work inspires me and serves a growing number of others. I’m in awe of the tiny little writing team that makes up Team Rainmaker and the resumes and profiles we craft.
To be celebrated by the end of the year: I set out to create some new programs this year and am putting the final touches on two of them: Interview IQ and The Purpose Process. I’ve just begun to work with a virtual assistant to help me accomplish and serve more without over-pushing my body.
Intention to finish strong: Live further into my mind-body healing practices to prioritize self-care. Continue to build my team and our skills. Complete and offer these two programs and others! (More information coming your way forthwith.) Support others so they, too, can finish strong.
Final Stretch
This is the time of year we at Rainmaker get lots of calls for support with cover letters and resumes, job interviews, clarifying purpose and calling, and how to finish the year STRONG.?
Many of my clients are looking toward new job opportunities, promotions, and career changes. We’re building Interview IQ, navigating job offers and negotiating salaries.
Executive clients look to growth their businesses and teams, uncover strengths, step into and develop leadership, increase effectiveness at stress and time management, create conscious culture.
Others are looking at more personal goals: develop self-trust, vision, and purpose, overcome patterns that no longer serve, heal their bodies and lives, clarify highest intention and inspired action to reach it.
How about you?
Is your 2018 stacking up the way you’d hoped? Which intentions and actions worked for you, so far?
What do you hope to shift by the year’s wrap up?
What projects do you want to complete?
And what preparations do you want to make to start off 2019 on the right footing?