Spring Cleaning....

We have reached that time of year again...you guessed it by the title..Spring Cleaning. It is the time that everyone claims is a time for the change in one's life that matches the change of seasons. New leaves and buds in the flowers and trees symbolize the newest next chapter in one's life. In a less figurative sense, it is also the time that people start cleaning, painting, landscaping, etc. It is the next chapter of the New Year's resolution, the timeless tradition of broken promises that accompany the start of the calendar.

I fall somewhere in between as I love the new dawn of a spring and ensuing summer season. I just enjoy warm weather as it takes me back to a younger phase of life. The next sports season started, summer was imminent, and your time and life became your own as you completed the next level of your evolution by completing that particular grade or graduating from middle school, high school, college, new job, marriage, etc.. It is about the promise of the next step, the idea that the next bigger, better opportunity is waiting for you to find or create.

Fast forward to present-day. Life happens....right? Work, bills, and all the accoutrement that is the mundane and monotony of routine in adult life. Yet somehow, I never lose the accompanying excitement and buzz that comes with the first wisps of warm sunlight and longer days. I find it easier to re-establish a workout routine, motivate and find more of the creative energy that seems to correlate directly to the presence of warmth, sun, and longer days. Hibernation time is now over and like the birds, insects, and plants that begin to stretch, wiggle, and move noisily indicating their return to prominence and bluster, I find myself ready to make moves. So as the latest version of spring madness has arrived and I commence to generate my plans, business, vacation, family and everything in between, for the upcoming season. I try to take stock of where I am in my own level of evolution and progress. Have I progressed from last year ? If so, what facets of my life have undergone progress? Where do I need to spend my time and efforts to "clean" in and around my world? No matter the year....count me in as it begins...