Spring - A Great Time for Renewal

Ah, spring in Canada! There's nothing quite like the changing of the seasons to get your heart pumping. Everyone seems to have an extra bounce to their step. The migrating snowbirds are returning from their winter vacations, and the trees and grass - once dormant - are showing signs of coming to life again.

Spring - a great time for renewal. A great time for all of us to dig ourselves out of the winter doldrums, dust off our summer sports equipment, get the bike out of storage or go for that long overdue walk.

Spring is a great time to "re-sharpen" the saw, as Stephen R. Covey would say. The season of new beginnings is a perfect time for reflection and re-assessment. Are you getting what you want out of what you've got? It's a good time to ask yourself: Are you happy and content with where you are at this stage in your life, both at work and at home? If the answer is 'yes', then I applaud you.

However, if you're not perfectly satisfied, what are you prepared to do about it? You need to change the behaviour to change the result. You need to take an honest look at yourself and your surroundings and come to terms with whatever is getting in the way of you getting what you want. It might come as a surprise to some people but life is not meant to be a spectator sport. You need to get off of the couch, roll up your sleeves, and get back in the game.

Where would you like to see yourself in six, 18 or 24 months from now, both in your personal and your professional life? Success is a matter of being focused on what it is you are trying to achieve. You shouldn't just strike off willy-nilly in the hopes of reaching your destination. Success for the most part - in any undertaking - is having a plan and then working that plan, and if you're not accomplishing what you set out to do, then you need to change that plan and start again.

Larry Winget in true Larry Winget fashion sums it up best in his latest book, It's Called Work for a Reason: Your Success is Your Own Damn Fault. Wishing and hoping won't make it so. You need to start with the end in mind and work backwards to the here and now. You need to start to develop those kinds of habits that are going to take you to where it is you want to go. You need to discover your WIIFM (what's in it for me).

I would be remiss if I did not shout out to all of the perfectionists and procrastinators out there: Don't wait for perfect! There's never going to be a perfect time to start, a perfect set of circumstances, or a perfect ending. You need to heed the advice of Esther Dyson: "The delusion that you're perfect - or that if you do the right thing, things will always work out OK - makes you resistant to change and fearful of failure … you'd rather not discover that you're imperfect, that maybe what you were doing was wrong. The more people can go through these discoveries the better."

So, remember: Any time is a good time to start a new beginning. Why not make spring- time your time for renewal? Strike up the band! Shake the dust off your action plan and get at it!

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