The Season Is Turning — Are You?

Reflections on spring, renewal, and the quiet permission to begin again…

There is a particular kind of morning that arrives sometime in late February or early March. You step outside and the air feels different — not warm exactly but no longer punishing. The light has shifted. It stays a little longer now.

I notice it every year. And every year, I notice something else: I change in these weeks too.

The Body Knows Before the Mind Does

Before you have consciously registered the seasonal shift, something in you already has. Energy starts returning. Old problems that felt immovable in January begin to feel slightly more workable. You wake up and, for a moment, feel genuinely curious about the day ahead. This is not sentimentality. This is biology.

Here's a trap I see leaders fall into every spring: they treat the returning energy as fuel to do more. The calendar fills. Ambitions expand. The pace accelerates — and within weeks, they've squandered the season's gift by adding to an already unsustainable load.

The longer days are not a demand to be more productive. They're an invitation to be more intentional. After all, great leadership is, at its core, an act of paying attention.

Spring is the right moment to ask whether the direction you've been moving in still makes sense. Whether the priorities you set in darker months still hold in the warmth.

What have you been quietly waiting to start?

Most leaders have something. A difficult conversation they've been rehearsing but not having. A way of leading they have been meaning to step into when things settle down. Things rarely settle down on their own. But seasons change. And there's something about spring — about warmth literally returning to the world — that lowers the activation energy for things we have been postponing.

The conditions are good enough. The light is returning. The warmth is here.

The season is turning. Are you?