On Fridays I will post a Lean related Quote. Throughout our lifetimes many people touch our lives and leave us with words of wisdom. These can both be a source of new learning and also a point to pause and reflect upon lessons we have learned. Within Lean active learning is an important aspect on this journey because without learning we can not improve.
The Fall season
shows us that everything in life is fluid and changing and in order to move
forward, we need to embrace the change. As the days get colder, the nights
longer and the leaves on trees fewer, nature welcomes this new phase of its own
existence.
When we see
that despairing look of naked trees and dull skies, it may feel like everything
is dying and this change is not for the better. Yet, without the fall, there
would be no spring nor summer, and nature embraces this temporary death to
reborn again in spring.
This is what we
should do too. Not every change is positive, and a rare one goes smoothly. A
period of transition almost always involves pain and crisis. But only when we
learn to accept a new phase in our life, we realize that every change is for
the better.
If it is a
negative one, then it aims to shake our values and views, which will later be
proven vital for our self-growth.
The Fall season
also demonstrates that it is crucial to let go the things that belong to the
past. Trees lose their leaves, and it is both sad and beautiful, painful and
necessary, morbid and inevitable. Every fall, nature goes through this
melancholic transition and says goodbye to the cheerful summer version of
itself. Yet, it lets it go without regrets and welcomes the change.
This is an
important life lesson for us to remember. If we don’t let things go and dwell
on the past, our personal growth stops and we eventually find ourselves stuck
in life.
