At the moment, we are stuck in the middle of winter in Australia. It’s a cold rainy day, but just this morning when I headed out to the car I got that hint of warmer weather. I know it’s just my mind playing tricks on me and wishing it was closer to summer, but I am sure you know that feeling as spring begins to come into play and you get those little sneak peaks of what summer is going to feel like.

One great aspect about winter for me, is that my responsibilities outside with the lawn and the gardens drastically slow down – things just don’t seemed to grow well in winter. If you do have a green thumb and you enjoy spending time outside in your gardens, you would know that the best advice during winter is to prune back your shrubs and your trees preparing them for the fresh growth that will come in spring.

This is not an article about gardening but rather an example of how we need to treat our lives as well. Winter time is really an analogy for when things are not growing in our life, maybe even a depressed time, a cold time, a dark time. Just like my grass, winter time can be used to describe a situation where your business, your projects or any area of your life stops growing or slows down. But just like we get those hints of spring days, the same also occurs in other areas in our lives and we need to be prepared for that time.

If you are going through one of these seasons, then begin to prune back those areas that are not growing or that are restricting growth. Winter is the time to do that, so that when spring hits you can experience exceptional growth.