Winter slows you down, spring shows up, summer lets you run and fall reminds you to let go. Every season has a job.

Cycles do not run on a single setting. A year is made of a slow part, an opening part, a fast part and a letting-go part, and trying to run all four at the same intensity is how people end up exhausted and confused about why. Your own life moves in something like the same pattern. Some months are for building and some are genuinely for lying low.

Work out which one you are in right now, then stop applying the wrong month’s standards to it. Resting during a slow stretch is not falling behind, and pushing during a fast one is not overdoing it.