I just find it so interesting as to all the impacts that autumn has on us each year and the seeds we are planting now to grow for the future. It is a time of new beginning, when the leaves fall and the trees start a new.  It’s a time to cuddle up with those you love, and prepare for the holidays ahead. To make trips to the orchards and pumpkin fields, to create memories and breathe in the crisp air.  It’s time to center back into family and start to plant your seeds again for harvest in the spring.  It is to enjoy the fruits of your labor from summer, to store and create new forms of food to last the winter and to celebrate the abundance of our crop on Thanksgiving.

We look back on the seasons past and take stock to see how we lived our year and how we could learn from it and do it better.  In what ways can we fill in the gaps we may have missed when we were basking in the glow of the summer sun.  What relationships and business maintenance have we overlooked and now is time to tend to?

It is also the Jewish New Year so “L’Shana Tova” to you.  This means “To a good year.”  I think that whether you celebrate the holiday or not, and no matter what religion you are this holiday is a really special and interesting one to perhaps add into your practice.

It basically entails that each person take stock of how they are living their lives, to acknowledge that our deeds are measured by our intentions and to have faith that no good deed goes unnoticed.  It is re-evaluating how you have spent this year and for you to take into account, what you have contributed to this world and to your community, perhaps as a business person, but more importantly as a human being.  What have you done out of the goodness of your heart, what lies have you told – to yourself or to others, white or malicious?  The best part is, we all have the chance to fix it, to undo it with positive and good intentions and to learn from our in-authenticities.  To be a better person.

To plant your seeds NOW, watch them grow and sprout to enjoy for next summer, with the deep practice of care, nurturing and the realization that some of your crop may fail. To analyze what the conditions were this past year and to course correct to increase your abundance of fruit is what is necessary now.  How can we plant more, and more efficiently now to receive more abundance later?  That is what we all must ask ourselves at this time in order to live a fuller life and to leave our legacy for the world.

Hope that inspires you!
xoxo

Emily

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