![]() It signals the time to question how events in your life impact the restructuring of your life in the future. The autumn season of the mind is the time to challenge and shed old thinking and get reacquainted with the principles and values that support your thinking. I sometimes feel like a kid again, even though some people have told me that I’ve never stopped being a kid. For me these memories just seem to span my entire lifetime. ![]() The wonderful smell of autumn (at least here in the Northeast) conjures up some of the most pleasant memories. If you were a child growing up in a seasonal climate you probably felt compelled to save a few of the more beautiful leaves and this is a good metaphor for building on some past idea nuggets. The absence of leaves exposes the wonderful trunk and branch structure of the trees, which gives us a nice metaphor for the backbone of our thinking. ![]() The falling leaves represent our ability to break current thinking patterns and the ultimate composting of these leaves represents the great idea enhancing value that our combined experience and learning gives us. The great colors of summer give way to even more spectacular autumn colors. Let’s play with this one for a while.Īutumn is a time for shedding a lot of the well-rooted, mature ideas that have been adding color to our lives, but are getting tired. Each season provides a different metaphorical twist to our thinking and, when we put these all together, the overall result is the opportunity to understand what you are going through in your life just a little bit better. One autumn, while on our annual leaf viewing trip, it occurred to me that the seasons provide us with a very interesting metaphor for life. In the many years I’ve spent in the northeast, I was always taken back by the beauty of autumn.
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