When I turned sixty a few years ago, I began sensing a quiet inner shift.

Nothing dramatic happened. My work did not suddenly stop, and I have no intention of slowing down soon. In fact, I would love to continue working, coaching and contributing well into my seventies — perhaps even my eighties, if God grants me the health and energy.

But something inside me started changing.

Not in a negative way. Rather in a reflective way.
Questions began surfacing:

How do I want to live this next phase well?
What should remain?
What may need to change?

Perhaps you have experienced something similar.

Sometimes the shift comes from the outside.
Politics change. The economy changes.
The organisation you work for changes leadership, vision or culture. Suddenly you have to unlearn certain ways of working and learn new ones.

At other times the changes are deeply personal.
A marriage or divorce.
Children leaving home.
A parent passing away.
A financial breakthrough — or setback.

And sometimes the shift simply comes from entering a new season of life.

Tony Robbins describes life as moving through a number of broad phases, each bringing its own opportunities:

• Discovery years – figuring out who you are and what life might hold.
• Building years – establishing career, family and direction.
• Influence years – using your experience to lead, mentor and build.
• Legacy years – investing wisdom into people and causes that will outlast you.

The challenge is that many of us try to hold on to a previous phase instead of embracing the one we are now entering.

And that is understandable.

What was familiar feels safe.
What lies ahead feels uncertain.

But life grows forward, not backwards.

I sometimes think of life like a garden through the seasons. In spring something new begins to grow. In summer things flourish. In autumn we harvest and release. In winter the soil rests and prepares for what comes next.

Each season has its own beauty and purpose.

The question is not whether the seasons will change — they always do.

The real question is: How will we respond to the season we are in?

Because none of us are finished products.

We are all still emerging.

Inside each of us are passions, gifts and possibilities that may not yet have had the chance to surface. A new season of life sometimes allows a different facet of who we are to come alive.

Perhaps there is still an artist in you.
Or a cook.
An adventurer.
A mentor.
A traveller.
A community builder.

So rather than asking only Who have I been?
Perhaps the better question is: Who might I be becoming now?

Some Ways to Grow in a New Season

If you sense that you are entering a new phase of life or work, here are a few practical ways to engage it well:

1. Name the season you are in.
Ask yourself honestly: What phase of life am I entering now?

2. Let something go.
Every new season requires releasing something from the previous one — an identity, role or expectation.

3. Stay curious.
Instead of resisting change, ask: What new opportunity might this season hold?

4. Try something small.
Explore a passion, start a project, learn something new, or invest in someone younger.

5. Invest in people.
Growth rarely happens alone. Walk with people who are a few steps ahead — and encourage those coming behind you.

Growth usually does not happen through one big leap. It happens through small, courageous steps.

So perhaps the reflection for this month is simply this:

In which season of life do you find yourself now?
What opportunity might this season hold?
What might you need to release?
And what might be waiting to emerge?

May you have the courage to keep growing.