I love Autumn, especially when the sun shines! There is just something about the autumn months that I find inspiring and motivational, in my book forget spring it is autumn that always gives me a kick start.

The autumn sun with the touch of a soft breeze seems to bring about what would be classed in the earlier months of the year a ’spring clean’; a time when I de-clutter both at home and in work. It is almost as if I have to start preparing for the winter months which will lead us into the New Year, quite where the last two years have gone to, I do not know (and I believe from talking to others that this is normal for most of us). Once the mornings and the evenings start to draw in then my enthusiasm for de-cluttering diminishes as I turn to hot chocolate and movies on a weekend afternoon.

I have already been inspired by the changing of the trees, some already starting to lose their greenery to be replaced by the copper colours of autumnal season. As they drop the floor it is almost for me a sign to start dropping the ’stuff’ I have been carrying around since last year, this applies to items I have collected, thoughts that cloud my vision and blockages these things have created.

I become more motivated, visualising how I can make lasting changes most of these small, but business wise some bigger changes are afoot for 2022. The planning has started, the frameworks are being pulled together, the vision become brighter daily.

Autumn for me is a reminder that life is beautiful, nature will continue to come and go always transforming the world as it goes about it’s work; everyday if you go out for a walk take time to embrace the changes that occurring, look up and notice how the leaves change almost on a twenty four hour basis, take note of how the air is cooling down as the summer heat is replaced with the fresh chill that accompanies the still, at times resident sunshine.

It is great that in our garden the birds while still here chattering away are now having that lie in as daylight appears a little later every day, they still wake us up perched on our guttering as if to say, ’come on get up, it is time for breakfast’ however I always smile when I hear them as it reminds me that they too are moving on from their 4.30am start that comes with the height of summer.

So, as we approach this glorious time of the year, hold on to what is important but also use it as a time to let go, be naturally inspired to make some plans, embrace these next couple of months before the shorter, darker days come along and have you reaching for that cup of hot chocolate in front of the roaring log fire.

Have a happy Autumn, as they say in America, embrace the fall!

Beverley Jones

Awaken Coaching Ltd.

www.awakencoaching.co.uk