Fall is my favorite season. Not only because it affords me the best chance of getting out and hunting here in Michigan, but because everything changes. The weather, the trees, the tires on my truck. Suddenly, in a world of business casual, I am back in camo and fleece, ready to take on nature’s challenges.
I love change. Change provides opportunity! If the weather didn’t cool, my bucks wouldn’t be out in the woods waiting for me. Change forces us to wake up and take in our surroundings in a whole new way. Once the leaves start to fall, we can see things that were hidden by the foliage. We can see the shapes of things we had forgotten, the roofline of a neighbor’s house or the glimpse of a doe’s profile, in stark relief against the bare trees.
Honestly, it doesn’t matter if you hate change or love it like I do. It happens with or without our permission. Here are a few tips, from one hunter to another, on facing change:
- Keep learning: Continuous improvement is a core value at HealthRise and one I foster in my home life as well. Learning changes YOU. And then you can change the world.
- Flow like water: too often, we act more like the boulder in the stream, wanting the world to flow around us. Go with the flow, slip and slide around obstacles and you’ll find you can get further, faster.
- Enjoy the process: people love to watch the leaves change. Why not approach change in your life like the color show we enjoy each year? It’s all in how you perceive it. Look at it as beauty, and it will be beautiful.
Change is inevitable. It is the only constant. I want you to take some time this weekend, hunters, to embrace one small change and make it your own. Take it down like a trophy buck, like I know you can. Let me know how you did! Email me.
